I7-3770k Overclocking to 1.64GHZ??

[jimmyfixedme]

Previously with my i7-3770k I had a stable 4.2ghz oc(which I got from the bios). But today I started messing around with the Asus auto tuning, and it said it put my clock speed to 4.4ghz. But whenever I open Cpu-z and Asus suite, It says I have a CPU frequency of 1.6ghz. It ocassionaly moves up to 4ish but even when I validate the CPU-z it says 1.64ghz(http://valid.canardpc.com/2718659). It also shows my ram as being really slow(1866mhz in reality).

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[k1114]

What you are seeing is speedstep, perfectly normal unless you disabled it. Run prime or some other stresstesting software and you will see it go up. 1866 is an oc speed so you would have had to load xmp or set the speed yourself.

 

[marshal11]

^^ What he said. Speedstep automatically downclocks your CPU when it's under low load to save power and produce less heat. Again like he said, download and run Prime 95 and you will see your clockspeed go up to whatever you set it to unless your OC is unstable. In that case, your PC will lockup, get a blue screen or windows errors will pop up normally saying "xxx has stopped working". That's when you know you're very close to being stable.

EDIT: I noticed your baseclock up higher than normal (103Mhz). I would bring that back down to 100Mhz and play with the multiplier until it's stable first, and then start playing with the baseclock if you want.

 

[DarkSable]

As for the RAM, remember that it's DDR ram - certain programs will have its true speed, which is half what you'd expect. (i.e. 1600MHz ram runs at 800MHz, because it's double data rate.)

 

[jimmyfixedme]

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[jimmyfixedme]

Thanks alot!

So much to learn about my computer!!!