[SOLVED] 3 year old rig upgrade

[Nighthawk117]

Hey again,

my parts arrived and I have just installed everything etc.

Now I ran into some issues.. is it true that the i5-12400F cannot be overclocked with the motherboard I now own? (Gigabyte B660 Gaming X DDR4)
I bought the CPU thinking I could reach the shown clock speed of 4.4 GHz easily but now I am sitting here at 2.50 GHz..

If I can't get this to the desired 4.4 GHz is this new CPU still better than my old one or did I ultimately make a purchase mistake and might as well refund it and get a different CPU that I can overclock or something..

The 12400F cannot be overclocked, only CPU's with the 'K' suffix like the 12600K can be overclocked. However 2.5Ghz is not correct, that sounds like it's not configured correctly. The base clock is 2.5Ghz but the all core boost frequency is 4Ghz. The latter is what you should be getting when your playing video games.

What is the PC doing when your measuring the clock speed? If you run a benchmark like Cinebench R23:
https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-r23-downloads

Does the CPU remain permanently at 2.5Ghz?

Things to check, what are your Turbo Power Limits set to in the bios?
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B660-GAMING-X-DDR4-rev-10/support#support-manual

Unfortunately I don't have that specific board but what your looking for is no time limit on PL2.

What is your power profile set to in Windows?

 

[iSpextor]

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134587/intel-core-i512400f-processor-18m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz.html

According to this, 2.5ghz is the base clock. In other words when you are idle, it’s going to throttle down a bit. However when you start putting a load on it clock speeds should increase as needed. One thing to do, download and run cinebench r23 and see what it scores.

Scroll further to the bottom and look at the cinebench scores here. Yours likely won’t be exactly the same as theirs but it should give an idea if it’s in the same neighborhood.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-intel_core_i5_12400f

Multi-Score I got 11793 pts, which is along those lines.
Single Core I got 1570 pts, also nearby.

Looks like it's fine. Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with these as I've only been manually overclocking so far and haven't thought about the

The 12400F cannot be overclocked, only CPU's with the 'K' suffix like the 12600K can be overclocked. However 2.5Ghz is not correct, that sounds like it's not configured correctly. The base clock is 2.5Ghz but the all core boost frequency is 4Ghz. The latter is what you should be getting when your playing video games.

What is the PC doing when your measuring the clock speed? If you run a benchmark like Cinebench R23:
https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-r23-downloads

Does the CPU remain permanently at 2.5Ghz?

When running the benchmark on Multicore it reached a maximum clock speed of 3,99 GHz. For Single-core performance I assume the advertised 4,4 GHz would come into effect, but only single-core.. cheeky advertising there. I'm still happy with it now tho, thank you lads for the help!