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Windows won't register oc
PNM_Jennings
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in Hardware
So I oc'ed my CPU to 4.2 from a base clock of 3.3, but Windows doesn't seem to register it. First off though, let me say it's not a big deal. It's stable, CPU-Z and Task Manager both read it as hitting 4.2 on load. So it's working. It's just a little frustrating that Windows, and more importantly any program that communicates with Windows on a surface level, thinks it's at 3.3. I poked around on the net, but didn't find anything. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Windows 7 had the "Windows Experience" score, and that would measure it dynamically (if you OCed your CPU, it would increase your score). I think they did away with this because it was pretty meaningless when trying to compare two different systems, but I'll admit it was a nice, easy built-in way to validate that an overclock was actually impacting your performance.
Other than that, I'm pretty sure it just has a lookup table - this model CPU is this fast stock, and that's that. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is what Win8/Win10 do in the System control panel - my 4790k says 4.0Ghz no matter what - and as I type this (with nothing else running) it's in power save with CPU-Z reporting me at 800Mhz.
Don't worry about it - programs don't need to know how many Ghz your CPU is running at.