I've had this PC with Asus Z97 Pro and i7-4790K for sometime... it always seemed quite not upto task and "snappy" as the CPU should have been, it's running off an SSD, DDR3-2133 CL9 memory, and now overclocked to 4600 MHz, on Windows 10 Pro.
So, after trying various things and seeing that CPU on CPU-Z is almost ALWAYS running at 800MHz, and even running benchmarks, it was either slow to throttle up, or didn't fully (hence benchmark scores were always lower than they should have been), I went into BIOS and disabled Intel SpeedStep, and OH BOY, PC has COME ALIVE... it's so fast and amazing, I am shocked. Website, apps, games, etc... load up in an instant, everything is faster including file transfer, unzipping a folder, video encoding, etc...
BUT, the CPU is now always running at 4.6GHz, with core voltage of 1.29V... so it's not efficient to run like this.
Question is, can I somehow enable Side Step BACK and tweak it so it runs faster? or is it some driver, BIOS, etc... that's causing the slow ramp-up of the CPU? Any settings, or power options in Windows I can change to make this better? The difference is MASSIVE, so I really don't wanna go back running a 4.6GHz CPU in 800MHz, even running basic apps, as the CPU boost just makes everything so much better!
Thanks!
So, after trying various things and seeing that CPU on CPU-Z is almost ALWAYS running at 800MHz, and even running benchmarks, it was either slow to throttle up, or didn't fully (hence benchmark scores were always lower than they should have been), I went into BIOS and disabled Intel SpeedStep, and OH BOY, PC has COME ALIVE... it's so fast and amazing, I am shocked. Website, apps, games, etc... load up in an instant, everything is faster including file transfer, unzipping a folder, video encoding, etc...
BUT, the CPU is now always running at 4.6GHz, with core voltage of 1.29V... so it's not efficient to run like this.
Question is, can I somehow enable Side Step BACK and tweak it so it runs faster? or is it some driver, BIOS, etc... that's causing the slow ramp-up of the CPU? Any settings, or power options in Windows I can change to make this better? The difference is MASSIVE, so I really don't wanna go back running a 4.6GHz CPU in 800MHz, even running basic apps, as the CPU boost just makes everything so much better!
Thanks!