Cpu "Speed range"

[Daleborn]

Heyya, i just recently overclocked my fx 8350 to 4.7 ghz, but when im not doing anything and my cpu utilization is at 1% it goes down to like 1ghz, is there any way to change this so that my CPU is always running at 3GHz(min) to 4.7GHz(max) as opposed to 1GHz-4.7GHz? or just any range at that, i just want to know if its possible, and if so how do you do it?

 

Thanks for the help in advance guys

[Castdeath97]

Why would you want to do that?

[JLIsAButt]

Ok, so the reason your CPU is running at that low of a percentage is because it does not need to run 100%. That would use up more power and cause it to run hotter. Your PC is 100% fine running at that speed and shouldn't need to be running any faster when idle. When doing something CPU intensive it will be faster and use up more percentage of power.

[ThinkWithPortals]

7 minutes ago, Daleborn said:

 

Why do you want it to run at high speed all the time? It doesn't need to, and it'll just produce more heat and noise.

[Ayushjain199999]

as others mentioned, why do you want to have a cpu clocking at 4.7 ghz,, my god... if my pet walked at that speed... anyways clock it to 4.2 ghz and run a stress test.. you will be able to find out if your cpu does work at that potential or not... Happy Clocking

[Pesukarhu]

8 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Why do you want it to run at high speed all the time? It doesn't need to, and it'll just produce more heat and noise.

These "turbo" features dont work too well with games causing lag spikes. Otherwise they are quite good with lowering power consuption and noise.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, Pesukarhu said:

These "turbo" features dont work too well with games causing lag spikes. Otherwise they are quite good with lowering power consuption and noise.

Source? I let my i5 ramp up and down from 800MHz to 3.9GHz as much as it likes and I have encountered precisely zero lag spikes.

[Frame Drops]

44 minutes ago, Daleborn said:

Heyya, i just recently overclocked my fx 8350 to 4.7 ghz, but when im not doing anything and my cpu utilization is at 1% it goes down to like 1ghz, is there any way to change this so that my CPU is always running at 3GHz(min) to 4.7GHz(max) as opposed to 1GHz-4.7GHz? or just any range at that, i just want to know if its possible, and if so how do you do it?

 

Thanks for the help in advance guys

Yes you can set your own range.

Multiplier: it is the ratio of internal clock speed to the external clock speed. means if multiplier is set to 5 than there will be 5 internal cycle for every one external cycle.(external clock = base speed or bus speed of your CPU & internal clock = the out put cycle you get like 4.7Ghz or any other frequency). In normal ( CPU frequency = Bus speed x multiplier )

For example here you will see that the CPU bus speed ( external clock speed)= 200MHz and multiplier is set from 6 to 15. Here 6 to 15 means that CPU will set a no. for a multiplier between this two no according to it's need. For example here the CPU is not doing any intense work that's why multiplier is set to 6 since bus speed is 200MHz the output is 1,200 MHz or 1.2 GHz. If CPU is doing some heavy work the multiplier will be set to 15 since the bus speed is 200MHz the output is 3,000MHz or 3.0 GHz. Messing up with bus speed or multiplier can change your CPU speed. That's why Intel K series has unlocked multiplier so you can messed up with multiplier and change you clock speed. Now that doesn't mean you can set your own multiplier and bus speed and get what ever frequency you want because every thing has it's own limit, increasing speed means increase heat output, increase in power consumption etc and that's why it multiplier has it's range when there is no heavy work it comes down to speed like 1GHz and when there is lot of work it gives out his max speed 4.7 GHz

 

[Frame Drops]

Turbo frequency is different thing and it is little hard to achieve, you can say that it is a safe and self over clock. When there is a heavy load in one core and temperature is favorable, the CPU increase it's performance  of that core by decreasing the performance of other core.

[Pesukarhu]

56 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Source? I let my i5 ramp up and down from 800MHz to 3.9GHz as much as it likes and I have encountered precisely zero lag spikes.

My own experience. Dont know if Intel is better but this seems to be the case with AMD.