Surface Book 2 throttles excessively, often down to 0.4 GHz

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I've recently purchased a 15" Surface Book 2.

When compiling large projects in Visual Studio 2017, I find that the processor often throttles excessively, often down to 0.4 GHz. As a result, compilation takes several times longer than it does on my 5 year old MacBook Pro.

The Core Temp app shows that the CPU at this point is at 50-55 degrees Celcius or so.

The following question touched upon this problem, but the proposed solution did not work for me:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_10-performance-winpc/cpu-clock-speed-sometimes-capped-at-04ghz/315d06ac-a40a-41f8-8314-b370f8b51618

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks.

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Anonymous

2018-11-03T12:46:25+00:00

Has anyone managed to solve this issue?

November 2018, brand new SB2 with the same issues.
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Anonymous

2018-11-01T05:58:25+00:00

Same problem here, and now it is November 2018, Microsoft still ignore our demands to fix this throttle bug. So what the **** were surface book and windows engineers doing during the last half year?

Maybe I will not buy surface book any more
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Anonymous

2018-10-06T08:36:26+00:00

The summer weather is no more and I'm able to run the SB2 without the need for a fan at the moment.
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Anonymous

2018-10-03T07:52:00+00:00

Yep, could be wrong, but I think it happened right around then.
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Anonymous

2018-10-03T02:00:56+00:00

Oh right you didn't experience this issues until the spectre/meltdown update? hmm the timing kinda fits.
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