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Verifying overclock speed in Windows 8

Post Date: 2014-03-26
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    Posted: 26 Mar 2014 at 3:32pm
I just read that Windows 8 has a tendency to display the incorrect overclock speed. How are you guys checking this? I've tried CPU-Z and it only shoes default speed. Thank you.
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You need to stress the cpu with a game or Windows Experience Index for CPU-Z to show overclock. On the bottom left the core speed will display.



Edited by bprat22 - 26 Mar 2014 at 3:50pm
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Posts: 250 		  Quote Alci Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 27 Mar 2014 at 5:59am
Oh I thought the cpu speed was a constant like it was with my 930 chip. Ok I understand now. Thanks.
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You're welcome. Big%20Smile
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You can make it so it's constant and never downclocks, but really no point in turning on speed stepping. I run a decent OC on mine, and when I'm just browsing the web or not really doing anything at all, it downclocks to 1.2ghz on all 6 cores.

If you're old chip was showing a constant clock after being OC'd, then it simply didn't have speed stepping enabled.
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