Core speed only showing at 1600 MHz

calcifaids · 6 Aug 2011 at 16:48

I'm new to overclocking so i know pretty much nothing about it. I have a ASUS P8Z68-V LE motherboard and an i5 2500k processor.
After doing a little bit of reading i decided the safest option was for me to up the max ratio to 44, but when i checked CPU-Z it's only showing my cores as doing 1600 MHz and the multiplier on it is only showing as x16, does anyone know why?
(quick note, i'm using a corsair A50 cooler just incase that needed to be known)
Cheers

Surveyor · 6 Aug 2011 at 16:51

Perfectly normal.

Intel SpeedStep which downclocks your processor when idle to save power.

Run Prime95 with CPU-Z open and the processor should clock up.

Edit.

Hi and welcome to the forum

calcifaids · 6 Aug 2011 at 16:57

Ah, brilliant, thank you very much for the help, really appreciate it

And thank you very much for the welcome

Surveyor · 6 Aug 2011 at 17:02

No problem.

Enjoy your stay.

Surveyor · 6 Aug 2011 at 17:16

Make sure to have a read of the FAQ.

It will serve you well.

panyan · 6 Aug 2011 at 18:17

surveyor - how many threads per day are exactly this?

RJC · 6 Aug 2011 at 19:18

Done a thread a while ago regards speedstep and multiplier changing, might be of some help:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17972811

Surveyor · 6 Aug 2011 at 19:20

panyan said:
surveyor - how many threads per day are exactly this?

They're like buses.

You don't see one for ages then three come at once.