My CPU is having a field day today

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I took a screenshot of my task manager performance tab for something else when I noticed something interesting about my CPU. Think you see it? Take a guess at what it is.

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it says the maximum speed is 2.50GHz but the speed in task manager is showing 3.30GHz
(That took longer than I thought) what do you know, it’s a Windows 8 Glitch!!! *Confetti *

look my maximum is 1.90GHz and it is running at 2.22GHz

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Darn windows 8.
Everything breaks on windows 8, I swear it always breaks.

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@Latouth I beat you to this thread :wink:

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43 minutes ago I was eating my candy from Halloween…

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Sorry, not my problem :wink:

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Are you sure that you are just not auto-ocing?

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auto-ocing? ````

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Auto-Overclocking my Motherboard does that for me and windows reports the clock speed like in OP

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Your CPU has Turbo Boost. See the information sheet http://ark.intel.com/products/78930/Intel-Core-i7-4710HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

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Or just windows can be stupid…

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I don’t have overclocking I’m running the stock cpu on this laptop

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I’m using the Win Tech Preview, looks to be more or less normal on mine, although I’m using an AMD, and they tend not to have those features like Intel.

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I like how it shows the processor use per core.

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That’s something I’ve changed manually XD You can right click it and ‘Change graph to’ either per logical processor or overall

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cool, now I can see my four core laptop processor.

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OHHHHHH, I know why, I think windows was combining the cores to make it seem higher than it was, It is now fixed for me.

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That’s funny cause when I play CPU intensive games it actually likes to go down below 2.5…

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@simon816 is correct, turboboost isn’t like overclocking, its fully automatic and rarely actually able to be disabled.

The CPU can overclock itself up to a fixed max when it’s within a large enough margin of specific temperture controls. On a pc in high performance power management, the settings cause the CPU to be at 100% operating speed always, instead of the normal policy of starting at 50%ish and going to 100%, this makes things like games run a bit more predictably, but also leads to strange screenshots like these.

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