It kept going to 400mhz.. i suspected throttling and we got it cleaned thermal paste replaced and all that.

Still throttled. We replaced the windows with linux since it was atleast a bit more usable

At the time I didn't know about PROCHOT. And my googling skills clearly weren't sufficient.

One fine day during lunch at a place on campus, Id read about BD_PROCHOT recently. So i wrote a script to msrprobe or whatever it was and disabled it. "Extended" the lifespan of the thing.