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Hello!

Second time I'm on this thread in 3days... Things are going so well!

Jokes aside, I have a problem with my processor, well I think so.

Wen I got the processor, I installed in the computer, I saw that the clock speed, when in idle, was never over 2ghz, it was never at the 3.4ghz clock as said on the box, since it's in idle, it's pretty normal I guess, it doesn't need that extra clock speed to run an internet browser (because of power saving), and I had temps of around 30° celsius. Now since last week, the clock doesn't want to go under my oc setting (3.8ghz) when in idle, it just stays at 3.8ghz and wich makes it have temps of around 40° celsius in idle, and I have a CM Hyper 212 Evo with 2 Thermalright fans on it, wich should normaly make it run at around 25°-30°, wich it doesn't.

So what the hell is going on ? Should I send it back ?

Help :(

Thanks in advance for your answers!

 

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I don't know for sure as I have never overclocked but I have read a bit about it and i believe to overclock your cpu is set to that frequency and doesn't down clock for idle, if I am wrong then there is probably a setting to enable/disable which allows itself to lower the voltage and down clock other than that I can't think of a reason it shouldn't

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I'm pretty certain that's normal. When overclocking, the processor stays at the set clock speed, so assuming I OCed to 4Ghz, that's what I'd stay at, even if I was just moving around my cursor on my desktop.

 

That being said, I'm not 100% sure, I'd look it up, but I wouldn't worry about it not dipping down. If you're still nervous about it, just set it back to stock.

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Hello!

Second time I'm on this thread in 3days... Things are going so well!

Jokes aside, I have a problem with my processor, well I think so.

Wen I got the processor, I installed in the computer, I saw that the clock speed, when in idle, was never over 2ghz, it was never at the 3.4ghz clock as said on the box, since it's in idle, it's pretty normal I guess, it doesn't need that extra clock speed to run an internet browser (because of power saving), and I had temps of around 30° celsius. Now since last week, the clock doesn't want to go under my oc setting (3.8ghz) when in idle, it just stays at 3.8ghz and wich makes it have temps of around 40° celsius in idle, and I have a CM Hyper 212 Evo with 2 Thermalright fans on it, wich should normaly make it run at around 25°-30°, wich it doesn't.

So what the hell is going on ? Should I send it back ?

Help :(

Thanks in advance for your answers!

So what's your problem? not having it downclock on idle or having temps at 40 Celsius? if it's the temps, they could be normal depending on ambient temps, try re applying the thermal paste maybe?

 

as for the not downclocking part, make sure all your C states are enabled, phase control is on adaptive and check your voltage, if it's on a manual some motherboards won't let your processor downclock either. 

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Ok I just saw something strange when I updated the bios to 1.2 on my MSI Z87 MPower Max, I have now 2 DRAM frequencies setting, I had 1 before, and my ram doesn't clock at 1600 like it should do, but it just stays at 1333...

WTH is going on with my system :(

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Hello!

Second time I'm on this thread in 3days... Things are going so well!

Jokes aside, I have a problem with my processor, well I think so.

Wen I got the processor, I installed in the computer, I saw that the clock speed, when in idle, was never over 2ghz, it was never at the 3.4ghz clock as said on the box, since it's in idle, it's pretty normal I guess, it doesn't need that extra clock speed to run an internet browser (because of power saving), and I had temps of around 30° celsius. Now since last week, the clock doesn't want to go under my oc setting (3.8ghz) when in idle, it just stays at 3.8ghz and wich makes it have temps of around 40° celsius in idle, and I have a CM Hyper 212 Evo with 2 Thermalright fans on it, wich should normaly make it run at around 25°-30°, wich it doesn't.

So what the hell is going on ? Should I send it back ?

Help :(

Thanks in advance for your answers!

dont send it back, its not faulty its just dynamically lower its speed to save power and be quieter, once you oc itll stop doing that.  I dont see what your problem is with the cpu. The memory issues is weird, in your frequency settings in your bios for the memory take manual control of the timing and multiplier, make sure your bus speed is stock 100.  Can you rephrase your problem? Just seems like you don't know whats going on.

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