the multiplier dropping issue only affected by LinX, I haven't come across any application or game that could put such tremendous stress on the cpu that forces it to drop (not even when I was converting 35GB of RAW data the other day), cpu load was 100% on all 8 threads but mutliplier remain at 21x. So I'd say ignore it for now till Asus put their act together to fix it so we can run LinX more comfortably :D