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I5 3570k

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I've just put a rig together, I'm using a 3570k, a gigabyte z77-ds3h, 8gb vengeance RAM. I want to overclock my cpu, so I go into 3d bios and set my cpu to 4Ghz. It boots into windows so I run prime 95 and cpu-z, and my cpu frequency is only 3.4? What am I doing wrong? I've updated to the latest bios, and I'm certain everything is being saved.

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With ivy and sandy bridge there is a thing called CPU boost and essentially what it means is that when you run a intense program it will boost up to those clocks for example if you were to run a game it would ramp up to 4 ghz.

Unless you manually turn off the cpu boost and manually set voltages you won't always have 4 ghz pumped out.
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well you can turn off turbo boost and you would get a stable 4 ghz. But intel chips are shipped with a boost. Even graphic cards now are going with a boost tech.

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Intel core i5 3570 3.4 ghz stock 3.8 ghz turbo boost
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