Overclocking Issue

[dani72]

I bought an overclocked PC from PCS which had to be returned and the motherboard replaced under warranty. When I look at the PC info it shows this:



Shouldn't this show something like @ 4.8ghz?

 

[Tony1044]

Others here know more than me but that looks like it'd be the base frequency of the CPU not the overclocked one.

 

[Rakk]

If that's from the System Window, it always shows just the stock speed that the CPU is, it doesn't show what it's currently running at
So yes tha's what you would indeed expect to see on that screen.

Mine shows like that as well on that screen (mine shows 3.5GHz, but then its an older CPU so isn't as fast) and mine is OC'd to 4.5GHz

 

[dani72]

If that's from the System Window, it always shows just the stock speed that the CPU is, it doesn't show what it's currently running at
So yes tha's what you would indeed expect to see on that screen.

I got that from control panel & about PC. How do I know for sure if it's overclocked?

 

[jerpers]

If you use software such as HWmonitor, it will show you what you CPU clocks are as well as temps etc. Depending on your windows setting you may see them very low in the min section but look at the max and during heavier workload, it will show what they clock up to.

 

[Oussebon]

As above. The various bits of Windows tend to report base frequencies, or misreport the actual frequencies.

CPU-Z is a useful tool: https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html and will tell you what frequency the CPU is at.

Note that if you run it while the CPU is under low load, the frequency might be quite low as it down clocks itself to save power. If you want to ramp it up, run something like Cinebench on all cores https://www.maxon.net/en/products/cinebench/