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4.5 weak for an i7-2600k?
- Thread starter TickleMyElmo
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- Apr 19, 2012
Funny, this screen shot from the first page looks otherwise.... Your under clocked quite a fair bit.
Just trying to help. Pointing out what I see. You've given only one screen shot and that screen shot doesn't show load temps..... Or correct speed.
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Hmmmm didn't realize that windows would also throttle the CPU like that. Thought that was handled via bios and the chip itself if it got to hot.
Anyways for the CPU its all a hit and miss. Some did 4.2-4.4Ghz average the other lucky crowd got 4.5-4.6Ghz, and then the 4.7+ was luck or water cooling.
So having a CPU that does 4.5Ghz isn't horrible at all. Course we all want that magic chip so I know that feeling.
If you think heat is an issue try disabling HT if you think that might be causing an issue. It will give you a little extra overhead, not much though. Might be a performance hit depending on the applications or games you even play.
Anyways for the CPU its all a hit and miss. Some did 4.2-4.4Ghz average the other lucky crowd got 4.5-4.6Ghz, and then the 4.7+ was luck or water cooling.
So having a CPU that does 4.5Ghz isn't horrible at all. Course we all want that magic chip so I know that feeling.
If you think heat is an issue try disabling HT if you think that might be causing an issue. It will give you a little extra overhead, not much though. Might be a performance hit depending on the applications or games you even play.
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Throttling may be a bad term for it because it's not doing it to keep the Cpu out of it's "max temp" zone, it's more for power saving when not under load.
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Yup yup... yeah bad reference for that.
Well bios its Speed Step. I know that's what I use on mine and works great IMO. Doesn't affect my OC and gives lower power needs when not in full utilization.
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If you have speed step enabled and windows set to performance the Cpu multiplier will not drop down though, IIRC. By default I believe windows is set to balanced which allows the multiplier to drop.
