Question My processor does not reach 3.90mhz, what should I do? i5 4690k

[Lucaas_GTI]

Hello, can someone help me, I have an i5 4690k and an h97 gaming 3 and the processor does not reach 3.90mhz, the maximum it reaches is 3.70, I would like to know how I have to make it work at 3.90mhz

 

[zqirt]

Are you trying to overclock?

if you're trying to over clock download intel extreme tuning utility
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-xtu.html

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

Are you trying to overclock?

if you're trying to over clock download intel extreme tuning utility
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-xtu.html

I tried to overclock but they told me that on h97 boards you can't just z97 and I want to know if it's true and if I could overclock over 4.0 mhz.

 

[zqirt]

On intel it says your motherboard supports the turbo boost of 3.90

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/82010/intel-h97-chipset/compatible.html
look under the compatibility and the chip set supports it.
i would go over intel's overclocking of 3.90Ghz

 

[uWebb429]

processor does not reach 3.90 GHz

That is the maximum speed when a single core is active. As more cores become active, the maximum CPU speed decreases.

the maximum it reaches is 3.70 GHz

That sounds like the correct speed when all 4 cores are active during a stress test. You need a Z series motherboard if you want to run all cores at 3.90 GHz or faster.

Edit - The C States need to be enabled in the BIOS if you want your CPU to use the higher multipliers when it is lightly loaded.

 

[DSzymborski]

Some more information is necessary, really. When you say it's boosting only to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.9 GHz, how many cores is that? It's a really big difference; it that's all cores, it's likely performing as needed to, but if it's only getting to 3.7 GHz on a single-core test, then something isn't going exactly as planned.

Though in any case, note that we're not talking huge performance differences here. If you're suffering performance limitations at 3.7 GHz, you probably will at 3.9 GHz here; the age of the parts is far more crucial than 200 MHz one way or the other.

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

I'm about to open msi afterburner and see how many cores hit 3.90 and I'm going to set the bios to see if I can run it at 3.90 or higher.

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

On intel it says your motherboard supports the turbo boost of 3.90

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/82010/intel-h97-chipset/compatible.html
look under the compatibility and the chip set supports it.
i would go over intel's overclocking of 3.90Ghz

How do I do it? Are there risks?

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

That is the maximum speed when a single core is active. As more cores become active, the maximum CPU speed decreases.


That sounds like the correct speed when all 4 cores are active during a stress test. You need a Z series motherboard if you want to run all cores at 3.90 GHz or faster.

Edit - The C States need to be enabled in the BIOS if you want your CPU to use the higher multipliers when it is lightly loaded.

I'm going to see if the c states are active and I'll tell you. What stress test do you recommend I do?

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

Some more information is necessary, really. When you say it's boosting only to 3.7 GHz instead of 3.9 GHz, how many cores is that? It's a really big difference; it that's all cores, it's likely performing as needed to, but if it's only getting to 3.7 GHz on a single-core test, then something isn't going exactly as planned.

Though in any case, note that we're not talking huge performance differences here. If you're suffering performance limitations at 3.7 GHz, you probably will at 3.9 GHz here; the age of the parts is far more crucial than 200 MHz one way or the other.

When I play I get that the speed is 3700 and very rarely it goes up to 3900 and goes down again and another question is if I do an oc more frequently will there be a difference?

 

[USAFRet]

When I play I get that the speed is 3700 and very rarely it goes up to 3900 and goes down again and another question is if I do an oc more frequently will there be a difference?

So it does get up to 3.90 sometimes?

 

[Lucaas_GTI]

So it does get up to 3.90 sometimes?

yes but very rarely

 

[uWebb429]

yes but very rarely

That is normal.

101 or a 1001 Windows background tasks means the CPU will rarely run at 3.90 GHz. The other problem is that most monitoring software, including MSI Afterburner, does not accurately track the CPU multiplier when Intel Turbo Boost is rapidly changing speeds. Use ThrottleStop if you want accurate reporting of the CPU multiplier. Run a ThrottleStop TS Bench test and set it to a 1 Thread test. Even during a single thread test, you will not see the full 39.00 multiplier because of Windows background tasks constantly waking up additional cores.

if I do an oc

An H97 motherboard does not support any overclocking. Your CPU is already running as good as it gets. Buying a Z series motherboard so you can overclock a 10 year old CPU a few hundred MHz is not going to be money well spent.