Intel Turbo Boost Enbabling

[Guest]

Can't seem to enable turbo boost for my system, been doing some stress testing and it just floats at 4 ghz, I have a 4790k and an Asus P9D WS with a c226 chipset, shouldn't it say whether it's enabled or not in CPU-Z or in Windows somewhere like task manager? (Yes. I have Turbo on in BIOS. )

[IsaacDaGrazin]

I thought i7's don't have turbo boost only hyper threading? And if you do have tb you should be able to enable it in the bios/uefi

[Inception9269]

does a workstation motherboard even support overclocking?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

does a workstation motherboard even support overclocking?

It's not overclocking. 

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

10 minutes ago, Yames said:

Can't seem to enable turbo boost for my system, been doing some stress testing and it just floats at 4 ghz, I have a 4790k and an Asus P9D WS with a c226 chipset, shouldn't it say whether it's enabled or not in CPU-Z or in Windows somewhere like task manager? 

It will be in the UEFI/BIOS

[Benergy]

39 minutes ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

I thought i7's don't have turbo boost only hyper threading? And if you do have tb you should be able to enable it in the bios/uefi

They have both, they're completely different things.

37 minutes ago, Yames said:

It's not overclocking. 

Turbo boost is pretty much dynamic overclocking.

 

45 minutes ago, Yames said:

Can't seem to enable turbo boost for my system, been doing some stress testing and it just floats at 4 ghz, I have a 4790k and an Asus P9D WS with a c226 chipset, shouldn't it say whether it's enabled or not in CPU-Z or in Windows somewhere like task manager? (Yes. I have Turbo on in BIOS. )

There's different levels of Turbo Boost, though but by default the 4790k should turbo to 4.4GHz. You should be able to see this in CPUZ, though it won't tell you it's enabled anywhere in the OS.

 

Your workstation board is likely to be causing the problem here, have you tried updating the BIOS firmware?

It supports Haswell processors by default apparently, but doesn't mention anything about Haswell refresh.

Edited February 8, 2016 by Godlygamer23
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