Incorrect CPU speed displayed in the Task Manager

[Paraborne]

Hey, just a miscellaneous question. I have an 8 year old computer I built back in 2014 and the CPU is an Intel i5-4690k (3.5 GHz) which I overclocked to 4.4 GHz. It has ran hard for 8 years and is still running swell. Ever since I overclocked my computer 8 years ago the Task Manager (under the Performance Tab) tells me my base speed is 4.4 GHz, which is to be expected. But when my computer is under load my Speed jumps up to 5.5 GHz. I know this is incorrect, as I went into my bios recently to double check everything, and ran the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool and confirmed that I do not ever go above 4.4 GHz. So why is my Task Manager so heinously wrong??

[MoonC A T]

If you overclock I suggest a dedicated 3rd party app (I used Aida64) to monito clock speeds, temps, etc. As was suggested to me in a previous thread, different apps report figures differently.

[Paraborne]

I do use MSI Afterburner to monitor my Clock speed, temps, voltages, frame rate/time, load, and it does so with my gpu too.

[Paraborne]

I know i'm running at m 4.4, but for 8 years my task manager has shown 5.5 and has not been fixed. Just a bug they don't care about maybe ?

[MoonC A T]

If you know it's not and Afterburner says it's not, then why do you care?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Use Monitoring apps. Don't rely on what Task Manager says. Don't even look there.

[_I_]

check with cpuz or hwmonitor

[CZI]

Your old mother board may be not supported standard report to task manager.
Try 3rd party.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes could just be either you need to update to latest bios version or that Win10 simply doesn't like your motherboard. Since technically speaking, Win10 really doesn't 100% support Intel stuff older then 6th gen. Or AMD stuff older then Ryzen.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Have you bothered defaulting the BIOS/Overclock to see if it happens without it?

[Viking2121]

Task Manger can be unreliable with boost states and even ram speeds on some systems, I'd look at CPU-Z or some other software, preferably one than can tell you each core speed on the fly like HWMonitor or Open Hardware Monitor