CPU Frequency is too high

[mr_boltwood]

I have an i7-9700k, supposed to be running at 3.6 GHz, but it's at 4.7 GHz. My CPU clock ratio is set to 36 and Ring Ratio is at 43. What's the problem ?

[Guest]

Is bios up to date?

Are you using Cpu-z to monitor frequency or something else?

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 minutes ago, mr_boltwood said:

I have an i7-9700k, supposed to be running at 3.6 GHz, but it's at 4.7 GHz. My CPU clock ratio is set to 36 and Ring Ratio is at 43. What's the problem ?

If the CPU has something to do, that's turbo boost kicking in.

[Guest]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

If the CPU has something to do, that's turbo boost kicking in.

Turbo is 4.9ghz....

[mr_boltwood]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

If the CPU has something to do, that's turbo boost kicking in.

How do I disable it?

[mr_boltwood]

Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

Turbo is 4.9ghz....

How do I disable it?

[Mister Woof]

Nothing, base frequency is the minimum spec for worst case cooling at the TDP spec.

 

Your CPU will run at the max boost (per core utilization) as cooling allows.

[mr_boltwood]

2 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Is bios up to date?

Are you using Cpu-z to monitor frequency or something else?

Yes, it's up to date, and currently on a tv while I'm building my monitor soon

[Mister Woof]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Turbo is 4.9ghz....

At stock settings, rarely does it ever hit single core turbo; it will generally hang around it's all-core turbo which iirc is 4.7ghz assuming adequate cooling.

[mr_boltwood]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

Nothing, base frequency is the minimum spec for worst case cooling at the TDP spec.

 

Your CPU will run at the max boost (per core utilization) as cooling allows.

So everything is okay?

[Guest]

Just now, mr_boltwood said:

How do I disable it?

On my board, I set all the cores to desired boost frequency. Should be an option, auto/ per core/ all cores, you want to set all cores.

[Mister Woof]

1 minute ago, mr_boltwood said:

How do I disable it?

There's no need. It's working as intended.

[mr_boltwood]

Just now, Mister Woof said:

There's no need. It's working as intended.

Okay thank you

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, mr_boltwood said:

How do I disable it?

Why are you trying to cripple your processor? it's default range of operation is 3.6ghz all the way to 4.9ghz, it is made to work within this range.

[mr_boltwood]

Just now, Princess Luna said:

Why are you trying to cripple your processor? it's default range of operation is 3.6ghz all the way to 4.9ghz, it is made to work within this range.

I have almost 0 knowledge on this. I apologize 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Princess Luna said:

Why are you trying to cripple your processor? it's default range of operation is 3.6ghz all the way to 4.9ghz, it is made to work within this range.

You can per core boost higher frequencies as well.

[Mister Woof]

Just now, mr_boltwood said:

I have almost 0 knowledge on this. I apologize 

No need - I would say just make sure your temps are okay and you will enjoy your experience.

 

Anything under 100 (and not throttling) during a super heavy stress test is fine.

 

Normal operation I'd say anything under 80 is fine.

[mr_boltwood]

Just now, Mister Woof said:

No need - I would say just make sure your temps are okay and you will enjoy your experience.

 

Anything under 100 (and not throttling) during a super heavy stress test is fine.

 

Normal operation I'd say anything under 80 is fine.

Okay, thank you!!

[Mira Yurizaki]

16 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Turbo is 4.9ghz....

Single core turbo is. And it only turbos up to that speed.

[Gabriel Arellano]

your motherboard is ASUS? is posible that the low (more discrete and pre-configured) level overclock included in modern asus mobos is active, it stabilizes the core clock and the voltage in all cores, improving a lot more the performance of turbo boost, along with the posiblity that the OC is already activated.

 

i'll leave you a video from JayZtwoCents where he explains how it works; it's not a detailed thecnical review but show what you need to know:

 

Is important to say that, if this function is enabled the stability may seem correct and will not show any problem, but not all the processors have the same behaviour. You have to do a deep test; is not a hard thing, executing process demanding applications (such as high end games, stress test, video editing if the RAM is enough) and apply several CPU test. Check the temperatures (i recommend AIDA64 because of the great precision of the readings and is really light and easy to use); Do this for a few days and if there's no weird errors or failures in between the test you are good to go with the processor as it's configured.

 

In the case of failure or unestable working, disable that function. You can provide your rig specifications for a more complete help.

[Gabriel Arellano]

and something i forgot to mention: You may have XMP or hyper-threading enabled, but the real clock speed of the components it's not the same of the clocks that software tools can show, even the motherboard can't do it. A perfect example for that is my setup: i have 4gb of DDR2 with a clock of 1066mhz (with a timing of 5-5-5-15) and all the hardware monitoring tools i've used they all say 800mhz, that's because the frequencies in the memory doesn't match with the real frequencies.