I recently built a setup with an Asrock extreme 6 z87 and an i5 4670k. I haven't overclocked it, or even changed anything in the UEFI. But for some reason, when I set power options to high performance or even balanced, the clock speed ramps up past 3.40GHz. It's actually been running like this for more than a week but I didn't notice till today. I've been monitoring temperatures the entire week and never noticed it go past 70C so I didn't make much of it.
So basically, why under high performance does my CPU go past the 3.40GHz it's supposed to be max out at? Also, even on balanced when I boot up it goes past the max for a few minutes but then settles down a little later.
EDIT: Should note that the highest i've seen it ramp up to was 3.70GHz or so. Although i've only monitored it for an hour or so. After I changed to balanced it seems to idle a lot more and goes under .80GHz when I'm not doing anything. But the question remains, high performance somehow overclocks the CPU? Or what?
So basically, why under high performance does my CPU go past the 3.40GHz it's supposed to be max out at? Also, even on balanced when I boot up it goes past the max for a few minutes but then settles down a little later.
EDIT: Should note that the highest i've seen it ramp up to was 3.70GHz or so. Although i've only monitored it for an hour or so. After I changed to balanced it seems to idle a lot more and goes under .80GHz when I'm not doing anything. But the question remains, high performance somehow overclocks the CPU? Or what?
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