Overclocking Confusion

[princedylan101]

So on my 4770k I have the multiplier set to 42, in the BIOS this shows me at a clock of 4.2ghz. However when I am on the desktop looking at MSI Command Center the CPU clock speed is going up and down, and when I ran valley benchmark it said I was running at 3.5ghz. Is there any reason as to why this is happening? I'd prefer it to run at the 4.2 all the time, and if anyone knew how to properly overclock I would like to know how to try to push it further.

[Cokeman]

What are your temps and voltage?

[xNeon]

open CPUZ or something that monitors clock speed in real time and do the benchmark again. Sometimes benchmarking programs only show stock frequencies of CPUs whether they are OC'd or not.

That being said, do you have "intel speedstep" enabled in the BIOS?

[Archangel1994]

Sounds like thermal throttling. Do you have an aftermarket cooler like the 212 EVO or Noctua NH-D15 or H100i to keep it cool?

[princedylan101]

open CPUZ or something that monitors clock speed in real time and do the benchmark again. Sometimes benchmarking programs only show stock frequencies of CPUs whether they are OC'd or not.

That being said, do you have "intel speedstep" enabled in the BIOS?

Speed step is on.

 

Sounds like thermal throttling. Do you have an aftermarket cooler like the 212 EVO or Noctua NH-D15 or H100i to keep it cool?

I have a NH-D14

 

disable turboboost, test with AIDA64

If keeps doing the same, post your temps

I'll get on that.

[princedylan101]

I disabled turbo boost, speed step and ran aida64. The hottest CPU core reach 60 degrees Celsius after 9 mins, the other cores were a few degress lower. After disabling the two things, cpu-z has the cpu at 3.5ghz, and command center had it at 3.5ghz steady, until I stopped the test. Now according to command center the cpu is dropping even lower than the 3.5 to sometimes below 3ghz.

[princedylan101]

What voltage and VCCIN?

Does any of this answer that question?

[princedylan101]

Increase the damn voltage

You mind instructing me on this? I would hate to fry my cpu lol

[princedylan101]

um... how Am I supossed to teach someone ?

Try raising Vcore a little bit, try 1.22 V for example

There are tons of guides for haswell though

Well like I got the boost clock to raise to 4.4, but I want that as the normal clock speed. How do you set it that way?

[princedylan101]

4,4 GHz? are you sure you're talking about a 4770K? Bc that's for 4790K... also that's only for 1 core

what? I'm lost.

[princedylan101]

Nvm, I think I misread it, you mean that you increased boost clock in 1 core to 4.4 GHz, right?

No, I mean in the bios I set the multiplier to 4.4, but when looking at intel extreme tuning, it shows the 4.4 as the boost clock.

[princedylan101]

Take a pic of your BIOS, I want to see what you did

I got annoyed and turned OC Genie on. This is what it set.

[princedylan101]

*sigh* Clearm CMOS and do it yourself

Disable turboboost

Disable speedstep (enable again if the OC is stable)

OC to 4.2 GHz (if it doesn't boot propely increase voltage (Vcore) to 1.22 V, if still the same try 1.25 V)

I disabled the two settings and did a full restart to make sure it was working. Bumped the cpu to 4.4 and the volts to 1.22. However after applying that it re-enables the two settings that I originally disabled.

[princedylan101]

I never used XTU, but looking where it says "Max non trubo boost ratio" there's a power button, does it disable that crap?

No, that just tells you that you have to restart if you change that number. I only use XTU to disable those two settings, I changed CPU settings in the BIOS, but something obviously isn't going right.

[princedylan101]

THEN CHANGE AND RESTART!

I wish it were that simple. Look at what's in yellow, just by me turning turbo boost off it bring it back to 3.9ghz.

[princedylan101]

This is why I hate ocing CPUs via software... could you please show "all controls" tab?

This is all of the settings. and if I knew what to do in the BIOS I would do it all that way, but I don't know what I am looking for in there.

[xNeon]

Speed step is on.

 

I have a NH-D14

 

I'll get on that.

Try disabling speedstep unless you are worried about battery life 

[princedylan101]

Try disabling speedstep unless you are worried about battery life 

I'm on a desktop, no battery.

[xNeon]

I'm on a desktop, no battery.

In that case, speedstep has no use for you I would turn it off.