Never seen i5 8400 turbo up to 4ghz

[Altruist]

Even when using cinebench sing threaded, and hardware monitor it never hits 4 ghz.

like i've never had temp issues i use an hyper 212x

 

[jiyeon]

Even if it's like 3999MHz, it's still technically 4GHz. As long as you're hitting 3950MHz+, there's nothing to worry about. Sometimes when I do a 5GHz Cinebench run, HWMonitor only shows 4993MHz.

 

4 minutes ago, Altruist said:

i've never had temp issues i use an hyper 212x

That's a rare one.

[Altruist]

5 minutes ago, seoz said:

Even if it's like 3999MHz, it's still technically 4GHz. As long as you're hitting 3950MHz+, there's nothing to worry about. Sometimes when I do a 5GHz Cinebench run, HWMonitor only shows 4993MHz.

 

That's a rare one.

i've never see a core go above 3911mhz

[Altruist]

6 minutes ago, seoz said:

That's a rare one.

i wanted to get the nh-u14s

heard it has better performance and acoustics 

[jiyeon]

1 minute ago, Altruist said:

i've never see a core go above 3911mhz

That's still fine, it's never going to properly be 4000MHz. Unfortunately if you are still concerned, I have no more options since I find that number fine.

 

This is me on 4.6GHz, it says 4613MHz, so it's fine.

[jiyeon]

2 minutes ago, Altruist said:

i wanted to get the nh-u14s

heard it has better performance and acoustics 

Anything is better than a Hyper 212.

[DildorTheDecent]

Use CPU-Z for all clock reporting. Even if it's the same readout, it's just a much better utility for CPU/Cache/Memory reporting.

 

Also make sure BCLK is sitting right on 100MHz. Disable spread spectrum if you can to keep it there.

[Altruist]

1 minute ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Use CPU-Z for all clock reporting. Even if it's the same readout, it's just a much better utility for CPU/Cache/Memory reporting.

 

Also make sure BCLK is sitting right on 100MHz. Disable spread spectrum if you can to keep it there.

In bios?

[DildorTheDecent]

1 minute ago, Altruist said:

In bios?

Well yeah. If you have the option try and disable it.

 

Might not be able to since you've a locked processor. Might as well see if the option is there.

[NumLock21]

8 minutes ago, seoz said:

Anything is better than a Hyper 212.

I have a 212 Evo and it can cool my CPU pretty damn well, and it's pretty easy to install.