4930k 1.2Ghz Idle - Can it be boosted?

[BlazingRaptor]

4930k 1.2Ghz Idle - Can it be boosted?

 

Basically my 4930k is OC to 3.9Ghz and boosted to 4.2Ghz when I intend on doing anything intensive.

The idle clock spools down to 1.2Ghz when there is no real stress.

All sounds fine except sometimes while gaming there will be a small lull in the power required and the CPU will drop down to 1.2Ghz causing real drop in fps for around 5-10s and I'm sure there must be a way around this..

Is there a way to boost the idle speeds?

 

 

[Wildlord12]

yes, if you want to stay that high ghz all time,  go to Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options > click the box High performance then apply it.

[Levent]

or disable C states in bios.

[StormEye]

There are two different methods.

 

1. If your BIOS has option, you can do it there. Not talking about disabling power saving feature. There are boards that allow you to dial in the idle speed.

2. You can go into power options and set a minimum CPU percentage. Usually its set to 5% or something. You can boost that to higher % and get boosted idle speed.

[ViruZ_HUN]

4930k 1.2Ghz Idle - Can it be boosted?

 

Basically my 4930k is OC to 3.9Ghz and boosted to 4.2Ghz when I intend on doing anything intensive.

The idle clock spools down to 1.2Ghz when there is no real stress.

All sounds fine except sometimes while gaming there will be a small lull in the power required and the CPU will drop down to 1.2Ghz causing real drop in fps for around 5-10s and I'm sure there must be a way around this..

Is there a way to boost the idle speeds?

why the heck you wan't consume more power on idle?

[rabidz7]

Disable speedstep and C-States in UEFI.

[Najuno]

But why would you want to have your CPU in idle running at full speed all the time?

 

I'm not so sure if these FPS drops are directly CPU related, but it would be interesting to see if this changes it.