CPU & MB issues

[Douglas Wesley Wicker]

Hi guys.

I've had my PC for a few years now and it consists of a 4690k, MSI sli krait and a gtx 960.
About a month after I had setup my PC, my CPU ran itself at 800mhz only, it took me ages to work out a solution and I have only just found out the issue. My solution was to enter the overclocking section in the bios and set the cpu multiplier to fixed rather than dynamic and dial in 3.5Ghz. This means my cpu has run at 3.5 constantly. Is this bad??
Recently I read a post that said this is to do with a bad cpu sensor on the motherboard. His fix was to run ThrottleStop and disable BD PROCHOT. I am yet to try this but I'm guessing it is another route to the same solution?.

The issue I have is that I am planning to overclock this week and wondered if having the cpu multiplier in 'fixed' mode as apposed to default 'dynamic' will affect stability and degradation of my cpu and/or motherboard?

Cheers Doug

[Chewique]

i think that would be fine but i'm no professional.

[Imakuni]

You can run at a fixed multiplier 24/7 no problem. In fact, if you'll be overclocking, you are going to do that anyway...

[smokefest]

59 minutes ago, Douglas Wesley Wicker said:

Hi guys.

I've had my PC for a few years now and it consists of a 4690k, MSI sli krait and a gtx 960.
About a month after I had setup my PC, my CPU ran itself at 800mhz only, it took me ages to work out a solution and I have only just found out the issue. My solution was to enter the overclocking section in the bios and set the cpu multiplier to fixed rather than dynamic and dial in 3.5Ghz. This means my cpu has run at 3.5 constantly. Is this bad??
Recently I read a post that said this is to do with a bad cpu sensor on the motherboard. His fix was to run ThrottleStop and disable BD PROCHOT. I am yet to try this but I'm guessing it is another route to the same solution?.

The issue I have is that I am planning to overclock this week and wondered if having the cpu multiplier in 'fixed' mode as apposed to default 'dynamic' will affect stability and degradation of my cpu and/or motherboard?

Cheers Doug

It might operate at that speed when on idle its normal..

If it was stayin at that speed under 100% load, theres a problem hehe

No problem at running a fixed clock speed, tho I recommend you to set it @ 3.9 ghz as its the stock cpu turbo speed.