CanNOT get CPU to turbo

[majin_sam]

ASrock A88m-g3.1 micro ATX

Athlon X4 845 w APU cooler @ stock speeds and volts

2x8gb G.skill Sniper @ 2133 mhz CL9 1.65v

Corsair RM450 PSU

 

The CPU will not clock above 3.522 on any core, under stress. It won't stay constant, either. It will fluctuate between 3.497~3.522 with the multiplier stuck at 35. Userbench actually showed a base clock of 3.5 and boost clock of 3.45. Windows power management is set to performance, AMD turbo boost is enabled...the max recorded temp is 31° c / 21 % and I got that running Heaven poorly. At one point in BIOS I expanded the multiplier tab just to look around, everything looked kosher (base clock showed 35, boost was 38). I did enable manual frequency input even though the frequency is locked (so nothing numerical changed, left multiplier alone), saved and rebooted with CPUZ showing the processor running at 3.8 idle on the desktop with the multiplier locked at 38. It benchmarked well, once. When I rebooted it again to give it a fluke test it booted back into Windows (skipped bios) with the multiplier back to 35, clocks stuck at 3.5. That's where it's at as of now. I feel like I've ticked every box I know to tick. Nothing is overclocked, the ram is actually underclocked...the only thing I didn't think to look at was system power draw but...its got an R7 370 also at stock speeds, so I'm assuming 450w shouldn't be the problem...any thoughts?

[KarathKasun]

IMHO, just OC it to 4ghz and be done with it.

 

Had this problem with some AM3 boards due to unrealistic power throttling.  Had to lock the CPU at the multiplier it throttled to and pump the FSB way up to get the chip to run consistently at stock speeds. MB VRM temps were ice cold and CPU temps were ice cold, the BIOS was just improperly implementing thermal throttling.

[goto10]

i overclocked my x4 860k to 4.2

 

but i changed my heatsink to a better one, noise was really annoying on the stock cooler

[majin_sam]

8 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

IMHO, just OC it to 4ghz and be done with it.

 

Had this problem with some AM3 boards due to unrealistic power throttling.  Had to lock the CPU at the multiplier it throttled to and pump the FSB way up to get the chip to run consistently at stock speeds. MB VRM temps were ice cold and CPU temps were ice cold, the BIOS was just improperly implementing thermal throttling.

It's a locked processor. I'm not trying to overclock it I just want it to boost normally 

[goto10]

1 minute ago, majin_sam said:

It's a locked processor. I'm not trying to overclock it I just want it to boost normally 

mo, it is not locked, if you do a search on google you will find lots of results, people pushing it to 4ghz or more

 

the turbo depends alot on the motherboard

 

on my asus the turbo was supposed to be from 3.7 to 3.9, but it turbo to 4ghz, i never set it to do that way, i later overclocked to 4.2, i know it can go to 4.4ghz but i was afraid of burn the vrm, my mltherbpard doesnt have any heatsink

 

if i was you i would just overclock it and dont worry, also consider changing all 3, ram, cpu and motherbpard, for a ryzen cpu, is double the cpu power, less power consumption and it turbo whem required, not a hassle like this one

[majin_sam]

42 minutes ago, goto10 said:

mo, it is not locked, if you do a search on google you will find lots of results, people pushing it to 4ghz or more

 

the turbo depends alot on the motherboard

 

on my asus the turbo was supposed to be from 3.7 to 3.9, but it turbo to 4ghz, i never set it to do that way, i later overclocked to 4.2, i know it can go to 4.4ghz but i was afraid of burn the vrm, my mltherbpard doesnt have any heatsink

 

if i was you i would just overclock it and dont worry, also consider changing all 3, ram, cpu and motherbpard, for a ryzen cpu, is double the cpu power, less power consumption and it turbo whem required, not a hassle like this one

...its a locked processor. There is only one way to overclock it and it's bunk. It only needs to operate as advertised

[KarathKasun]

34 minutes ago, majin_sam said:

...its a locked processor. There is only one way to overclock it and it's bunk. It only needs to operate as advertised

Get a different board?  The 300mhz difference isnt going to change much in the way of performance.

[goto10]

5 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Get a different board?  The 300mhz difference isnt going to change much in the way of performance.

it can be done

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10436/amd-carrizo-tested-generational-deep-dive-athlon-x4-845/24

 

as i mentioned, you will not get much from a small overclock, i barely got a 20% increase in performance on mine with a 500mhz overclock on all 4 cores

 

i wlild consider move to a new platform

 

you problem must come from the motherboard, or has a old bios or is working too hot and doesnt allow the turbo step or you didnt set a specific value on bios or the motherbpard is faulty

 

anyway, is a old cheap slow cpu, as ientioned, consider moving to a ryzen r3 2200, of course, you will need nee motherbpard and new ram with it