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Why is my CPU running at turbo clocks from idle to gaming?

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August 21, 2014 5:31:13 AM

I overclocked my cpu a while back at around 4.5GHz at around 1.4+ volts and to do that I disabled Turbo mode in my UEFI. After a week I went back to the default speed and voltage of my cpu, which is 3.8 GHz at around 1.3 volts. I went back to my UEFI and turned on turbo mode but i left AMD Cool&Quiet turned off. Now I can't figure out why my cpu is always running at 4.2GHz ALL THE TIME. I hope someone can enlighten me on the subject. I'm not frustrated, I just wan't to learn :D 

SPECS:
AMD A10 5800K
Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 rev 3.0
Kingston HyperX Fury Blu 8GB CL10 1600MHz
Corsair VS550 550W Power Supply

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August 21, 2014 6:10:29 AM

Check windows power settings in control panel.
If it's set to high performance it will run your CPU at 100% all the time.
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August 21, 2014 7:06:38 AM

kajjot said:
Check windows power settings in control panel.
If it's set to high performance it will run your CPU at 100% all the time.

I changed it to power saver. It still sits at 4.2GHz :( 

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August 21, 2014 8:22:43 AM

dovah-chan said:
Just from looking at your specs I see that you own the HD3. Gigabyte's AMD UD and HD series are well known to be filled with issues and quality control problems. I used to own the GA-990FXA-UD3 rev 2.0 and it was the worst motherboard I've ever worked with in terms of stability and compatibility. When I first got it and powered it on it wouldn't even work. It kept resetting itself and I could drop the same components into my friends AM3+ build and they would work great. I fixed it by replacing the BIOS battery and my friend who is an electrician who works at kemet took a look at the capacitors and did some adjustments to them. (Not actually sure what he did but he got it to work) after it was operational the VRMs overheated and shut off my build many times causing me to get frustrated and to sell it.

I would definitely replace your board. Don't bother with Gigabytes customer service either. If you send your board in (which I almost did) you'll probably have to wait a month before it's in your hands again (according to average stories and accounts I've heard from many builders who've dealt with them)

Oh and a possible cost free solution is to upgrade your motherboard BIOS. You can find it along with the utility to do so on your models downloads page.

Wait a second you left Cool and Quiet off? That is the option that changes your frequency based on load. Turbo just adjusts your maximum clock based on thermal headroom. It's sort of an auto overclock like OC genie but its supposed to be used in conjunction with Cool and Quiet in order to dynamically scale frequency based on load and TDP headroom.


I'll try to turn it on later when I have the time. I've been studying for my finals test lol :) . I agree that the board I have is very troublesome. I updated it to be able to overclock my cpu but that didn't work. I just overclocked it on AMD OverDrive. After a week or two, it finally allowed me to tweak my cpu through UEFI. The PCI-E slots are placed prematurely with the 16x slot being on the top instead of the 1x slot which makes it hard to install a 1x WIFI card. Plus, all of the pins are on the bottom which makes it look like an octopus with all the wires.

Looking to upgrading it soon. It jumps my voltage to 1.5V and It makes my cpu run hot at 88C when i enter UEFI. I'm currently looking to upgrade to an asus or msi gaming board but I'm still saving up for an R7 260x and for a decent monitor.

Which will be the better upgrade path? An Asus board or an MSI gaming with is very cheap compared to and Asus board here in the Philippines.
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August 21, 2014 9:37:36 AM

dovah-chan said:
I would recommend an MSI gaming board. Tom's themselves actually recommended the mATX MSI gaming board in their recent A10-7800 review. That really speaks in my opinion. Plus I own an MSI G-45 Z87 board and its given me no trouble. It has a fantastic interface and the MSI command center utility is great and works just as good as the BIOS does. Stability is the best I've seen. I highly recommend their gaming series boards to anyone wanting to have a stable overclocking platform. (even if they're obvious ROG clones but they're still just as solid if not more.)

Also I'm looking for a decent monitor too. AOC's 144Hz panel is really appealing to me but this Asus IPS monitor is sexy and has a nice bright screen. (I saw it in person myself and fell in love at first sight)

Thanks for the help dude :)  I absolutely love Tom's Hardware community because of people like you :)  Good luck on getting that Asus IPS monitor. Heck I ain't have that much amount of money lol :D 
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