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CPU Frequency Fluxuation

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Intel built that into the cpu to save power and make your cpu last longer. If you want to, you can turn it off in the BIOS. It's called "Intel Speed Step". It's kind of like running your car at 5000rpm all the time though. It can do it, but your engine is going to last for fewer miles.

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Ive have recently noticed that my CPU clock speed has been going up and down a lot at idle or doing simplistic tasks, like scrolling on facebook, or changing tabs on steam. The temperatures do change a little bit. Is there any reason or fix to this? Any help would be appreciated.

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i5 4690k @4.2GHz
Gigabyte H97 Gaming 3
Corsair H100i (Arctic silver 5 thermal paste)
Asus GTX 660Ti
Corsair RM750

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Intel built that into the cpu to save power and make your cpu last longer. If you want to, you can turn it off in the BIOS. It's called "Intel Speed Step". It's kind of like running your car at 5000rpm all the time though. It can do it, but your engine is going to last for fewer miles.

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It does that. Dont worry

Yeah, ive had it for a while, but the temperatures just seem to spike to over 50 degrees+, at an ambient of around 25 degrees. 

Ive tried turning the boost mode off in the bios but that just seemed to lock the CPU to 4.2Ghz

| i5 4690k @ 4 GHz | ASUS STRIX GTX 970 | Corsair H100i | Gigabyte H97 Gaming-3 | Corsair RM750 | 16GB Kingston HyperX | 128GB Cruital SSD | 240GB Crutial SSD | 2TB WD Green | NZXT H440|

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Intel built that into the cpu to save power and make your cpu last longer. If you want to, you can turn it off in the BIOS. It's called "Intel Speed Step". It's kind of like running your car at 5000rpm all the time though. It can do it, but your engine is going to last for fewer miles.

Oh, ok, thanks for the help.

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i5 3570k goes a bit silly overclocked at 4.3 ghz. by that I mean if fluctuating temps, speeds, usage. stopped watching it, its been months now.

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Thats normal

When you do anything that uses your CPU it will spike up to a higher frequency to finish the task faster even if youre just browsing the web

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i5 3570k goes a bit silly overclocked at 4.3 ghz. by that I mean if fluctuating temps, speeds, usage. stopped watching it, its been months now.

have you not had any problems at all with it? I have tried lowering the clock speed to 3.8GHz and still has similar results.

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I keep well dusted with a stock cooler and I've had no crashes or problems b/c of the cpu. max temp 70.

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