Cpu Clock Speed Higher Than Max

[cheiften98]

dont really understand this. If someone could explain that would be awesome.

[Guest]

That's turbo boost http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005641.html

[leaderroy]

That is the stock clock, if you turn turbo boost off in the bios it will run at 3,4GHz.
It is also a sign that your CPU isn't thermal throttling

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, leaderroy said:

That is the stock clock, if you turn turbo boost of in the bios it will run at 3,4GHz.
It is also a sign that your CPU isn't thermal throttling

Yeah it is enabled on by default

[cheiften98]

ah thats cool, i knew it had turbo bost but i thought it was something for overclocking. thanks for that.

[Intelfreak]

Yeah as already told. That is turbo boost in action. This Xeon CPU can boost up to 3.8 GHz depending on work load (how many cores/threads that is in use), heat and power consumption. These tree things decide when or when not the cpu are in turbo mode and how hig it will boost to.

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/80910/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1231-v3-8M-Cache-3_40-GHz