CPU Frequency High

[carlos4382]

Hello all,

I recently bought an Intel i7 4970K processor and have installed it in an Asus Maximus VII Hero motherboard. I have overclocked the processor using Asus Dual Intelligent Processor 5 utility to a maximum frequency of 4.8 GHz. Everything seems to be going okay with the overclocking and it’s pretty stable. The only thing that bothers me is that when I go to Windows Resource Monitor window the maximum frequency is very erratic.

Please take a look at the following screenshot which shows that the maximum frequency being displayed by Windows resource Monitor window can sometimes go up to more than 200%. I would expect the maximum frequency to go up to as high of 120%. I’m basing this calculation of 120% frequency based on a base clock of 4 GHz. If there’s an increase of 800 MHz based on the base clock I’m basing my calculation of 800 MHz divided by 4 GHz is an increase of 20% over the base clock. However I do not understand how it is that the Resource Monitor is calculating a 200% increase.

Any thoughts?

 

[napster100]

[strike]The image is extremely tiny thus being unreadable. [/strike] Thanks for the larger images aha.

Did you turn off Turbo Boost, I believe it should be turned off automatically when a chip is OC'ed but, I guess it could happen, other than that, I'm pretty baffled at why thats happening. Last thought would suggest its a bug in the reading of it.

 

[carlos4382]

[strike]The image is extremely tiny thus being unreadable. [/strike] Thanks for the larger images aha.

Did you turn off Turbo Boost, I believe it should be turned off automatically when a chip is OC'ed but, I guess it could happen, other than that, I'm pretty baffled at why thats happening. Last thought would suggest its a bug in the reading of it.

Turbo Boost is enabled. Just went into the bios to double check the status. Not complaining about anything or trying to fix anything. CPU – Z seems to be giving me the proper multiplier and frequency that I'm expecting as well as the Asus Dual Intelligent Processor 5 Utility. I think that what you're saying regarding it being a bug in the reading of the CPU frequency might be correct in the part of Windows.

Thanks for your answer.

 

[napster100]

Turbo Boost is enabled. Just went into the bios to double check the status. Not complaining about anything or trying to fix anything. CPU – Z seems to be giving me the proper multiplier and frequency that I'm expecting as well as the Asus Dual Intelligent Processor 5 Utility. I think that what you're saying regarding it being a bug in the reading of the CPU frequency might be correct in the part of Windows.

Thanks for your answer.

Glad I could help.