weird turbo boost problem

[Ashleyyyy]

so my system (specs in signature) has a weird turbo boost problem. 

 

it's constantly at 2.7ghz according to task manager, even though none of the threads are over 50% usage. 

[NinJake]

Why would it need to boost if nothing is over 50% usage?

[r2724r16]

It's saving power by doing that. Why would it clock higher if there's no load on it. 

[Ashleyyyy]

19 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Why would it need to boost if nothing is over 50% usage?

 

2 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

It's saving power by doing that. Why would it clock higher if there's no load on it. 

that's the problem. it shouldn't. but it does. 

 

i know 2.7ghz sounds like it's not boosting, but it is. the base speed of my cpu is 2.66ghz

https://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5650-12M-Cache-2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

[r2724r16]

5 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

 

that's the problem. it shouldn't. but it does. 

 

i know 2.7ghz sounds like it's not boosting, but it is. the base speed of my cpu is 2.66ghz

https://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5650-12M-Cache-2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

What's the problem though, it's barely boosting. 

[Ashleyyyy]

7 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

What's the problem though, it's barely boosting. 

it used to go lower until i changed motherboard yesterday.. 

 

EDIT: i remembered steam was downloading in the background so i stopped that, and then it went down to 2.3ghz.. why does steam make it boost to 2.7... 

[r2724r16]

3 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

it used to go lower until i changed motherboard yesterday.. 

 

EDIT: i remembered steam was downloading in the background so i stopped that, and then it went down to 2.3ghz.. why does steam make it boost to 2.7... 

Because when steam is loaded, your CPU needs to do work and boosts. 

[Ashleyyyy]

3 hours ago, Rasbir Singh said:

Because when steam is loaded, your CPU needs to do work and boosts. 

to give you some perspective, Overwatch in-game uses 15% of these cpu's.. there's no way steam downloading a game would make a 12 cpu core's boost up... 

[r2724r16]

51 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

to give you some perspective, Overwatch in-game uses 15% of these cpu's.. there's no way steam downloading a game would make a 12 cpu core's boost up... 

Downloading a game is still a load, even if it isn't a big one. 

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Rasbir Singh said:

Downloading a game is still a load, even if it isn't a big one. 

yes but surely not enough to boost up for.. 

[r2724r16]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

yes but surely not enough to boost up for.. 

It is enough to make your CPU boost.