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16 minutes ago, BloodyWaters said:

I have a intel i5-2320, which is 3ghz, but even under 100% turbo boost to 3.3 doesn't activate. In the bios, turbo boost is on, so I don't know what's wrong. 

CHeck your "power management" or whatever the option is called in windows control panel. You might have power saving mode activated.

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20 minutes ago, BloodyWaters said:

I have a intel i5-2320, which is 3ghz, but even under 100% turbo boost to 3.3 doesn't activate. In the bios, turbo boost is on, so I don't know what's wrong. 

Can you take a print of HWMonitor under load, please? Let us see what's going on inside that PC of yours.

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Turbo works in stages. If all four cores are under heavy load, then turbo is at its lowest, then there is a soured set for two and three cores. The speed they advertise as up to is for a single core being used heavily. Run cincebench single thread and you'll see.

 

The only other reason is not hitting max is because it is running too hot.

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2 hours ago, incarnate said:

Turbo works in stages. If all four cores are under heavy load, then turbo is at its lowest, then there is a soured set for two and three cores. The speed they advertise as up to is for a single core being used heavily. Run cincebench single thread and you'll see.

 

The only other reason is not hitting max is because it is running too hot.

Is 140 farenhight hot for a chip on full load?

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2 hours ago, BloodyWaters said:

Is 140 farenhight hot for a chip on full load?

It shouldn't be. Did you run cinebench single threaded yet? You on high performance power plan?

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