Overclocking question
I have an Intel 2600K processor on a MSI mainboard and using overclock genie II. My system is overclocked to 4.2GHz as seen in the screen below taken from my bios setup.
However, when in Windows, I can see nothing with regards to the 4.2GHz. Everywhere my processor is shown as 3.4GHz.
Is this normal? Or is there something that must be done? Or am I looking in the wrong places?
Screen of my BIOS Setup.
Screen from My Computer properties and CPUz
No guts, no glory, no brain, same story.
Get a program like Linx to stress test your CPU. Then you can use CPU-Z in conjunction with something like OpenHardwareMonitor to monitor the speed and temps as you test.
I have the same CPU and my Windows also doesn't show the OC'd speeds. CPU-Z works in real time and doesn't show min/max values (OHM will do that though)
Yes it might just be your stepping, you can also try Cinebench 11 there is a feature to rate your GPU and CPU. Watch your temps tho and make sure you don't overheat....
some processors even when set as overclocked run at their base/default clockspeed when the system is idle. Then pushes the clock speed up when under load. Same goes for graphics card clocks. try run the windows system assessment while running a monitor like cpu-z and then you should see the clocks rise. My quad core is a 2.4ghz, my cpu-z says the same until i run the assessment or a game then bang, clocks jump to 3.2ghz. graphics card clocks at 400mhz then jumps to 800mhz when testing or gaming. thats the beauty of the new technology, it doesnt rape the cpu/gpu if it doesnt need to so it underclocks it when not in use.
If im wrong, correct me, but this is what ive discovered from personal experience.hope it helps
did u use the button to overclock?
the thing that panthis is talking about is speedstep, try disable in it bios...IntelSpeedStep, also disable all other power saving functions
like Spread spectrum.
Last edited by GrillAz; 04-11-2011 at 12:11 PM.
ok, the SpeedStep is probably related to the IntelTurboBoost setting.
Do you recommend that it is turned off so that the processor is continuously overclocked or enabled so that the system overclock only when needed?
No guts, no glory, no brain, same story.
Leave speed step.
Otherwise you will kill your PC faster than with it disabled.
Speedstep lowers voltage and clocks, when inactive, it MAY cause instability. disable it if you are overclocking.
If you don't know what you are doing, then yes it may cause instability.
I know what I am doing. My system idles at 1.6ghz, and turbo boosts to 4.7ghz.
I used to run my system at 4ghz 24/7. Generates too much heat when your system is idle.
Okay, yes for you, but idle temps don't really matter, you might idle @ 30C in stead of 45C that still not going to be "bad".
Load temps in games matter. try and keep it under 70C in games and normal use.
I strongly suggest disabling speed-step along with other power saving functions whilst getting your overclock stable and then when you've reached stable(8 hour prime stable or 10 run IBT, to each his own, I normally do overnight prime just to be sure).
After you are stable you can enable the speed-step etc. You want to eliminate as much factors as possible to be able to see whats causing your instability.
Also your 2600k has Hyper threading which causes allot of heat, but rarely helps for games, disable it if you want.
Last edited by GrillAz; 05-11-2011 at 11:02 AM. Reason: spelling
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