[00:02] <furkan> tjaalton: i just remembered that you have a skylake build :) was wondering if you could confirm something for me... but unrelated to X
[00:03] <furkan> i tried running a prime95 torture test, and my CPU (i7-6700K) gets throttled to 2.7GHz even though the temperature is in the mid 40s
[00:03] <furkan> under Windows 10, it goes full blast at 4GHz
[00:04] <furkan> i'm running Ubuntu 16.04, and it happens both with the stock kernel and 4.7rc4
[00:53] <RAOF> furkan: Hm. Do you have thermald installed, and if so, have you tried disabling it?
[01:58] <furkan> RAOF: i do have thermald installed... i just tried disabling it (service thermald stop) and doesn't seem to have made a difference
[02:00] <furkan> i thought with the "Speed Shift" feature introduced with Skylake, the frequency scaling should be done in hardware
[02:03] <RAOF> I just recall a bug where thermald would incorrectly limit some xeon processors to low clock states, and wondered whether the same applied here.
[02:05] <furkan> you know what... i just booted into a live ISO
[02:05] <furkan> and it's working fine
[02:05] <furkan> kind of ridiculous, because i just did a clean install like a week ago
[02:06] <furkan> i didn't touch any of the system configs, but i did install a few packages like lm-sensors to let me monitor the temps
[02:08] <RAOF> Superb!
[02:09] <RAOF> The live ISO has thermald installed, right? Stopping thermald might not be enough; it might set the processor into a software-managed state?
[02:13] <furkan> RAOF: never mind i spoke too soon
[02:13] <furkan> i just had to let it go for another 10-20 seconds
[02:13] <furkan> before it throttled down to 2700MHz
[02:14] <furkan> and yeah thermald is installed on the live ISO
[02:15] <furkan> i guess it might have something to do with it
[02:15] <furkan> not sure what to try other than stopping the service though
[02:19] <furkan> i didn't seem to have the problem before, when i had the Asus "multicore enhancement" feature enabled, which locks all the cores at the turbo frequency
[02:19] <furkan> but i
[02:19] <furkan> i'd rather not have that enabled
[02:29] <furkan> r33nllamashoes
[02:29] <furkan> sorry wrong window
[02:30] <furkan> anyway tjaalton i'd appreciate it if you could give prime95 a whirl on your Skylake CPU when you have a chance, and let me know
[02:32] <RAOF> Time for a password change? :)
[04:27] <furkan> RAOF: hah, yeah, luckily it wasn't anything important :P
[04:27] <furkan> i mostly use key-based auth
[06:02] <furkan> well i have no idea what i did... but it seems to be working fine now
[06:03] <furkan> i should just give up on computers