Question intel i5-2400 cpu turbo boost Is not working in Fortnite

[Hamassous]

when i use it for chrome or anything else not fortnite it works well go to 3.4Ghz
but when i launche the game
when im in the lobbies of the game is go to 3.1 or 2.9 it only on that do go up ever there is no high temp or anything i updated all my computer drivers but nothing happen also change version of windows from 10 to 7 also reinstalled the game but nothing change
turbo boost is enabled from bios
how can i fix that i checked alot and alot of youtube videos but nothing is working
i have a
i5-2400
GTX 1050
8 GB ram
500 Gb HHD

 

[rgd1101]

it depend on both temp and power usage.

 

[Hamassous]

it depend on both temp and power usage.

Temp is around 70 c
and Power usage is around 50 watts

 

[rgd1101]

70c with only 50w usage
clean the cpu cooler. redo the thermal paste

 

[Hamassous]

70c with only 50w usage
clean the cpu cooler. redo the thermal paste

thermal paste is new and cpu cooler is clean

 

[rgd1101]

what the room temp?

 

[Hamassous]

what the room temp?

around 29c

 

[Deleted member 2720853]

What is your chassis? What is your case airflow like? How do you have your fans set up?

also change version of windows from 10 to 7

This won't fix anything. In fact, going from 10 to 7 is a major downgrade. Hard to believe, I know. But it's true.

 

[Hamassous]

What is your chassis? What is your case airflow like? How do you have your fans set up?

This won't fix anything. In fact, going from 10 to 7 is a major downgrade. Hard to believe, I know. But it's true.

i dont know really im new in this domain but i bought it like that is not me who built
also motherboard is cool and not hot in temp

 

[Deleted member 2720853]

i dont know really im new in this domain but i bought it like that is not me who built
also motherboard is cool and not hot in temp

Did you buy an off the shelf prebuilt? Do you know the PC model?

 

[Karadjgne]

Intel turbo is misleading. Turbo is a variable usage. Chrome or whatever is only using One core, so that core can safely Turbo to the max settings. Fortnite is using upto all 4 cores, so turbo is restricted to a lower speed by the Intel set power limits. 3400 MHz (1 core) 3300 MHz (2 or 3 cores) 3200 MHz (4 cores).

If you have a Z or H rated motherboard with a x68/x77 chipset, that can be manually overclocked upto 400MHz by changing the turbo multiplier.

I don't see any reason for any game to drive speeds below the base 3.1GHz of the cpu unless there's an issue such as temps or worn out cpu/VRM's not allowing full rated speeds. If it's just fortnite and no other program does this, I'd suspect it's a game issue, not an actual hardware issue.

If you use coretemp/Realtemp and task manager at the same time as running Prime95 small fft and your speeds/temps are as they should be for 4 core heavy usage, I'd be almost certain that fortnite is bunk and can be ignored.

 

[Hamassous]

Intel turbo is misleading. Turbo is a variable usage. Chrome or whatever is only using One core, so that core can safely Turbo to the max settings. Fortnite is using upto all 4 cores, so turbo is restricted to a lower speed by the Intel set power limits. 3400 MHz (1 core) 3300 MHz (2 or 3 cores) 3200 MHz (4 cores).

If you have a Z or H rated motherboard with a x68/x77 chipset, that can be manually overclocked upto 400MHz by changing the turbo multiplier.

i have a biostar motherboard model H61MGV3 i thing no overclocking option is available on it

 

[Karadjgne]

That's an x61 chipset (H61xxxx) so no OC available other than BCLK manipulation. It only worked for lga1155 cpus on those 2 chipsets. It was one of those things Intel was testing out for viability and usage, just like the short-lived Lucid Logic ability to basically tie in igpu usage to discrete gpu usage for better picture quality.

 

[Hamassous]

That's an x61 chipset (H61xxxx) so no OC available other than BCLK manipulation. It only worked for lga1155 cpus on those 2 chipsets. It was one of those things Intel was testing out for viability and usage, just like the short-lived Lucid Logic ability to basically tie in igpu usage to discrete gpu usage for better picture quality.

really i dont know what to do but ill play on base clock till i find a fix