Is there a way to set CPU clock to max WITH speedstep enabled?

[Rankhole]

Hey guys,

 

I have an i7 6800k overclocked to 4.2GHz. I have Intel speedstep enabled, since I do not want my processor to run at full even though im just idleing. Turboboost is also enabled.

Now my question:

When I play games, my cpu never reaches 4,2GHz, but only around 3,8-4GHz, since games definitely do not use a 6 core cpu enough. How can I make it so whenever the cpu usage reaches a certain minimum (e.g. 20%), it automatically goes up to the full 4,2GHz? In other words, speedstep should stay enabled, however at even lower loads it should go up to 4,2.

 

Best regards,

Rankhole!

[SCHISCHKA]

i dont think you can tune speedstep that way

[XenosTech]

I have the same problem with my 6500... It just stays at 3.2 and never ramps up to the 3.6 that's supposed to be the turbo boost frequency. I mean I could be stressing this to a 100% and it just stays at the base freq

[Waqas409]

Why you want to use that way?
Its up to Game optimization and CPU utilization that how game will use your CPU according to the current sittuation.

[Rankhole]

Certain games only use let's say 20% of my cpu. Now speedstep decides that therefore the cpu does not need to run at full speed. THAT means the game runs slower, since with a higher frequency per core it would run faster.

This is why I want to have 4,2GHz whenever im somewhat in a load.

[jj9987]

Maybe the game does not have that much work for the CPU, therefor it's clock is not pushed that high. It isn't necessarily bottlenecking the game.

[Rankhole]

It is. Some games only utilize 2 cores. Turning down my clockspeed to 2GHz for example will obviously result in lower FPS since then there is a severe bottleneck. That goes the other way around as well, when I up it to 4,2GHz, I'll get better performance.

IF the games were to use all cores, then of course what you say makes sence. But they don't.

[SCHISCHKA]

5 minutes ago, Rankhole said:

It is. Some games only utilize 2 cores. Turning down my clockspeed to 2GHz for example will obviously result in lower FPS since then there is a severe bottleneck. That goes the other way around as well, when I up it to 4,2GHz, I'll get better performance.

IF the games were to use all cores, then of course what you say makes sence. But they don't.

I thought the cores could change clock independently like AMD does. I also thought turbo boost was where one core could overclock if the other cores were not busy and the CPU was under a temperature limit

[Coaxialgamer]

Why not set custom turbo?  4.4 on 1 core,  4.3 on 2 cores,  4.2 up to 4 cores etc