My Intel I7-6700k Always Starts at less than 1 ghz. Someone help me

[Wamuu]

Hi! My Intel i7-6700k always starts at a low frequency and then ramps up and it also the frequency isn't consistent. I have an Asus Z170A motherboard and I want to know what I can do in the bios to change it. My cousin utilization only goes to 33% because most of the time to clock speeding is changing. It'll go up to 4.4 at some points and drop down to 1 and slowly build its way up again. Please help.

[Wamuu]

Cpu* not cousin

[Alchemist79]

The cpu is supposed to go up and down. I believe Intel calls it SpeedStep.

[Marz74]

Seems like you have a variable setting for the CPU frequency , you may try locking the core multiplier manually on your MB Bios or with Asus Ai Suite

Edit
it's like a power saving setting , where the cpu works with low freq when not used by any speficic process that requeires high use of CPU and increase when you use a game or other app

[just.kamk /idle]

Completely normal, and pretty much all modern components scale similarly with different load scenarios - even your graphics card will constantly clock up an down.

Your 33% CPU utilization is quite simply all that it takes with your current usage. You can stress test (100% load) with tools like this: http://www.mersenne.org/download/

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It is variable based on loads it is normal. It should not hinder performance or cause delays.
You can usually force this switch by switching OS Power Profile in Control Panel fro Balanced to High Performance if you prefer that.

The idea behind Intel SpeedStep and AMD Cool & Quiet is auto-downclocking the CPU when idle or low loads. 4GHz all the time is never needed for web browser related tasks for example. If the load does creep up high or spike, the higher clocks will kick in as needed. This helps you save power over time too.

[Revelene]

I'm not sure in which way you are using your cousin or if he/she would appreciate being used... but joking aside, if you are using the CPU at stock settings, then that is completely normal. Utilization and frequency will change as needed. For example, your browser will not need high speeds and should not utilize that much CPU resources.

If you want consistant full speeds and higher clocks, you'll have to enable that yourself (or rather disable certain features).

[Wamuu]

kamk a écrit :

Completely normal, and pretty much all modern components scale similarly with different load scenarios - even your graphics card will constantly clock up an down.

Your 33% CPU utilization is quite simply all that it takes with your current usage. You can stress test (100% load) with tools like this: http://www.mersenne.org/download/

im running the test now, the utilization is only %11

[Wamuu]

Bruh! a écrit :

I'm not sure in which way you are using your cousin or if he/she would appreciate being used... but joking aside, if you are using the CPU at stock settings, then that is completely normal. Utilization and frequency will change as needed. For example, your browser will not need high speeds and should not utilize that much CPU resources.

If you want consistant full speeds and higher clocks, you'll have to enable that yourself (or rather disable certain features).

what features?

[Revelene]

BigDaddy_DirtBag a écrit :

Bruh! a écrit :

I'm not sure in which way you are using your cousin or if he/she would appreciate being used... but joking aside, if you are using the CPU at stock settings, then that is completely normal. Utilization and frequency will change as needed. For example, your browser will not need high speeds and should not utilize that much CPU resources.

If you want consistant full speeds and higher clocks, you'll have to enable that yourself (or rather disable certain features).

what features?

If you want control of your hardware, then take it. The way you described it, it sounds to be working as designed.

Features, as in things like speed step.

What you want the cpu to do is overclocking territory. If you want to overclock, then read up on it. No one here will be able to teach you how to properly overclock, without typing out a novel.

[Wamuu]

Bruh! a écrit :

BigDaddy_DirtBag a écrit :

what features?

If you want control of your hardware, then take it. The way you described it, it sounds to be working as designed.

Features, as in things like speed step.

What you want the cpu to do is overclocking territory. If you want to overclock, then read up on it. No one here will be able to teach you how to properly overclock, without typing out a novel.

im fine on overclocking i just didn't know that in order to do what i want accomplished i would need to overclock. thank you

[Revelene]

BigDaddy_DirtBag a écrit :

Bruh! a écrit :

If you want control of your hardware, then take it. The way you described it, it sounds to be working as designed.

Features, as in things like speed step.

What you want the cpu to do is overclocking territory. If you want to overclock, then read up on it. No one here will be able to teach you how to properly overclock, without typing out a novel.

im fine on overclocking i just didn't know that in order to do what i want accomplished i would need to overclock. thank you

You can simply disable the power saving features and always run at turbo speeds.

You can change speed step and c states in BIOS and set power settings under Win OS to high performance.

Not technically overclocking but not standard operation, either.

You might as well learn about overclocking, as it will most likely be running with more voltage than needed.