Intel Turbo Boost not kicking in?

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SuneDK

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It's enabled in my bios and I run high-performance power plan (windows) with everything set to 100%.

I run AIDA64 Extreme and the processor remains at 4ghz ( cpu infos in my signature )
I also tried running Firestrike, same result processor read at 4ghz max.
(linked my firestrike results, but yes it locked at 4ghz turbo max)
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9428248

Seems strange, since I've made sure it's enabled @bios and made sure windows power is not blocking it either. Any ideas?

Or is it simply firestrike + aida not recognizing turbo boost?
Or should I just not give a crap and disable turbo-boost and manually OC to 4.2 which is the default turbo boost for this chip.
 
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Karadjgne
That's because most programs are not actually reading the actual speed of the cpu. They read the identity, so it'll read a i7-3770k @3.4GHz r2 vC Yada Yada Yada. The stock identity. Not the 4.6GHz mine is running at. Windows reads the id, Aida64 reads the id, most all programs read the id. NOT The actual speed. You need specialized programs like cpu-z to read actual speeds.

Turbo boost is a user chosen, factory authorized overclock and as such is not considered part of the stock speed. Your turbo is working just fine, you just can't see it because you are running the wrong program.
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Most programs will only read the stock speed, not turbo. Everything that reads my cpu gets 3.4GHz, even when it's actually 4.6GHz OC. To see actual speeds you'd need to use cpu-z or similar free program. Once verified, you can ignore further information from those other programs.
 
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I'll try cpu-z, ty :)



I tried this, but even if running the aida64 stress-test and having task manager up with CPU at 100% utilization, it remains at 4ghz speed according to task manager also.
 
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That's because most programs are not actually reading the actual speed of the cpu. They read the identity, so it'll read a i7-3770k @3.4GHz r2 vC Yada Yada Yada. The stock identity. Not the 4.6GHz mine is running at. Windows reads the id, Aida64 reads the id, most all programs read the id. NOT The actual speed. You need specialized programs like cpu-z to read actual speeds.

Turbo boost is a user chosen, factory authorized overclock and as such is not considered part of the stock speed. Your turbo is working just fine, you just can't see it because you are running the wrong program.
 
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