Hi, i have a i7-3820, (believe it or not it's still very good at handling games)
it's rated at 3.6 ghz with turbo to 3.8, after a while (5+years of updates etc, it only turbo'd to 3.67 something like that (why is that btw?) , it had nothing to do with cooling (btw my cooling is 100% stable, runs at 35- 45 in non gaming, (60 in gaming) handles stress test with no throttle for an unlimited amount of time)
I might add i noticed the cpu doesn't go above 95 W under stress test, i saw the main page says it does up to 130W? did i mess a config up?
Few months ago i went into the bios and manually set the clock speed to 3.8ghz, i noticed recently that that the clock speed doesn't throttle down a bit anymore when idle
(yes min proc was speed set 100%, but before overcloak it still throttled a bit down idle) will this eventually lead to failure? being constantly technically overcloaked
I now changed the perf mode to allow a minimum of 10% instead of 100% in order to make it throttle down when not needed is this a good idea/'fix'? not sure about the instel speedstep tech of 2011
so tldr
it's rated at 3.6 ghz with turbo to 3.8, after a while (5+years of updates etc, it only turbo'd to 3.67 something like that (why is that btw?) , it had nothing to do with cooling (btw my cooling is 100% stable, runs at 35- 45 in non gaming, (60 in gaming) handles stress test with no throttle for an unlimited amount of time)
I might add i noticed the cpu doesn't go above 95 W under stress test, i saw the main page says it does up to 130W? did i mess a config up?
Few months ago i went into the bios and manually set the clock speed to 3.8ghz, i noticed recently that that the clock speed doesn't throttle down a bit anymore when idle
(yes min proc was speed set 100%, but before overcloak it still throttled a bit down idle) will this eventually lead to failure? being constantly technically overcloaked
I now changed the perf mode to allow a minimum of 10% instead of 100% in order to make it throttle down when not needed is this a good idea/'fix'? not sure about the instel speedstep tech of 2011
so tldr
- why does my cpu not go to 3.8 ghz turbo anymore ?
- will i brick my precious cpu by doing what i did?
- is my fix (lowering min cpu %) the way to go?