Threadripper 2950X Turbo Clock?

[16thompn]

G'day everyone

 

Please excuse my lack of knowledge but I am currently a little confused as to how my task manager (TM) is displaying the Ghz my threadripper chip is outputting.  AKA its supposed to be running at 3.5 Ghz and overclocking to 4.4Ghz but the TM is saying its normally idling around 3.8 and never over 3.9 despite having a 4.4Ghz boost clock.  Is that normal or is the TM useless at trying to examine this sort of statistic and if so what would be better.  

 

Note: I haven't attempted to overclock it at this stage?

 

Thanks for any help.  

[Pixel5]

are you giving it something to do that would require it to boost all the way up?

 

at idle or under low load it is normal for it to not run at it max clock constantly.

[GoldenLag]

Taskmanager sucks at monitoring this.

 

Also the 4.4Ghz boost is on a single core using XFR2. 

 

Try running a singlecore benchmark and you should see it boost to 4.4ghz

[16thompn]

1 hour ago, GoldenLag said:

Try running a singlecore benchmark and you should see it boost to 4.4ghz

Here I am running a single core cine-bench mark test.  Still sits at 3.9Ghz.  Any ideas?  Do i have the XFR2 boost disabled somehow?  I also cant seem to determine which core it is utilizing during this test.  It seems to be jumping around a little.  

[GoldenLag]

Just now, 16thompn said:

Here I am running a single core cine-bench mark test.  Still sits at 3.9Ghz.  Any ideas?  Do i have the XFR2 boost disabled somehow?  I also cant seem to determine which core it is utilizing during this test.  It seems to be jumping around a little.  

Taskmanager sucks at showing clockspeed (or most things). It should be running at its rated speed at least for a few seconds (depending on cooling and other factors).

 

Use CPUz or hardwaremonitor. It should be doing its thing. 

 

If it isnt doing its thing, check BIOS setting to see if everything there is good