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marioleno23
By marioleno23
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I have an Intel i7-4770 @ 3.9 GHz. Recently I noticed it drops often below 1 GHz. Is this normal? Its not thermal throttling as temps are about 40*C   

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At idle, yes it's supposed to underclock itself.

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they drop down to that when they are at idle.. once you start doing stuff you will see it pick back up again

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It only uses what it needs, and will rise up when necessary

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As others have said, this is meant to happen. The CPU will run at a lower speed when under less load, dropping to it's lowest when idle. It will go up to the maximum speed when under enough load.

 

I believe this is called SpeedStep, but that term may be outdated now.

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