CPU won't go to its 3.4 GHz speed

pigy33

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Jul 27, 2015
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So I've almost had my Levano y50 laptop for a year now and I just figured out a few days ago that Levano made a dumb feature that makes it so I don't get boost when I have my gtx 860m utilized so my CPU used to always be 2.4 GHz when I got in game. I have a 1700-HQ so w/ boost it should be 3.4 GHz. So I downloaded Throttle Stop and it only let me set my CPU speed to a max of 3.4 GHz (even though I've heard that you can overclock this CPU to 3.6 GHz) but anyway when I did set it to 3.4 GHz my CPU would go 3.0-3.1 GHz and I know my CPU can go higher b/c before I go into game (w/o the gtx 860m running) it sometimes gets to 3.3 GHz.

So could someone plz help me get my CPU speed to the right 3.4 GHz? and maybe help me get a program that allows me to overclock my CPU to 3.6 GHz?