Question CPU clock speed immediantly decrease to 3ghz in games

[help me5418]

The clock speed is at 3.7ghz while im in a different window, as soon as i switch to my game window it decrease to 3ghz immediantly, it's the same in other games, Even when i am in the lobby of the game it's 3.7ghz, but as soon as the game starts it reduces to 3ghz

The games are GTA5 and Valorant

GAMING DESKTOP
High performance in power plan
Intel Xeon e5-2969 CPU(32CPUs) @2.3ghz ~2.3ghz, turbo unlocked by hacks in the bios
Geforce RTX 4060 8GB
32gb of DDR3 RAM
550WATT PSU
American Megatrends intel x99 motherboard
PC used for 1month
DirectX 12
Windows10
PCTemperature is fine

 

[thestryker]

Most likely that's just the boost profile for the CPU.

There is no such CPU as the one you've mentioned, and x99 boards don't support DDR3 so accurate system information would be useful if you're looking for help.

 

[help me5418]

Well, how can i fix that?

Most likely that's just the boost profile for the CPU.

 

[help me5418]

There is no such CPU as the one you've mentioned, and x99 boards don't support DDR3 so accurate system information would be useful if you're looking for help.

In some apps it says it is DDR4, but it says DDR3 in the task manager, and it runs at 1600mhz
Motherboard
it says ddr4
here
task manager

 

[thestryker]

Well, how can i fix that?

Most likely cannot fix it unless the BIOS has options for manually setting the clock multipliers. You can check Intel XTU, but I wouldn't expect it to allow manual clocking on that Xeon especially with an unsupported chipset.

In some apps it says it is DDR4, but it says DDR3 in the task manager, and it runs at 1600mhz
Motherboard
it says ddr4
here
task manager

What does it show on the SPD tab of CPU-Z?

That looks like one of the boards out of china running random hardware so it's probably DDR3 because the chipset is H81 not X99. I've seen several random boards like this and unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do support wise.

 

[DSzymborski]

Yeah, this looks like one of those Frankensteined AliExpress motherboards which, while frequently quite clever in execution, are typically going to be compromised in one way or the other. Add in the fact that some unknown hacks in the BIOS are thrown in on top of that, and it's really hard to guess what will remedy the situation, if it can even be done.

 

[TerryLaze]

Well, how can i fix that?

Intel Xeon e5-2969 CPU(32CPUs) @2.3ghz ~2.3ghz, turbo unlocked by hacks i

Make a shortcut for the games to make them run on less cores, start with 8 and go down from there to get the smallest amount of cores that will give you the most clocks.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ity-with/4e83fd39-34a7-49fe-a54a-ee891c38b737

 

[help me5418]

Make a shortcut for the games to make them run on less cores, start with 8 and go down from there to get the smallest amount of cores that will give you the most clocks.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ity-with/4e83fd39-34a7-49fe-a54a-ee891c38b737

THAT WORKED!! TYSM

 

[help me5418]

Make a shortcut for the games to make them run on less cores, start with 8 and go down from there to get the smallest amount of cores that will give you the most clocks.

Does this happen to everyone, or is it just me?

 

[Unolocogringo]

Does this happen to everyone, or is it just me?

Happens to everyone with a system similar to yours.
Have fun gaming.

 

[TerryLaze]

Does this happen to everyone, or is it just me?

Turbo is defined by how many cores are doing work, the more cores that are working the lower the clocks.
This happens to everybody, but if you only have 4-8 cores the difference is so small that it is not even noticeable.

 

[help me5418]

Happens to everyone with a system similar to yours.

What system are you talking about? 36threads?

 

[help me5418]

Turbo is defined by how many cores are doing work, the more cores that are working the lower the clocks.
This happens to everybody, but if you only have 4-8 cores the difference is so small that it is not even noticeable.

Makes sense, but why does it only happen when i'm in game?

 

[TerryLaze]

Makes sense, but why does it only happen when i'm in game?

Do you do anything else that would use all cores? Some games just start up as many threads as there are available cores physical or not.
You can run something like cinebench as a test and it should also run at low clocks.