Do I have a problem with overclocking

Jonnibravo · 2 Mar 2016 at 18:58

Hi all,

I have been having difficulties with my PC recently, after buying a h100i water cooler I was getting temps of around 26-30c idle, recently after repositioning my radiator (not removing the block) my temps at idle are averaging 36-41c.

I think I may have moved the block and may need to reseat the thermal paste and block on the CPU.

|However after a short time the Temps do settle and I started looking at the CPU speeds and I appear to be seeing the CPU run at as much as 4.20ghz around the time the temps are high, I have a 3750k 3.30ghz processor and in the task manager it is showing the CPU at 3.80ghz max speed.

Have I somehow overclocked the CPU, I haven't touched any settings or is this normal?

Sorry for the noob question!

doyll · 3 Mar 2016 at 10:41

3.8GHz is i5-3570K stock turbo speed so that is normal. 4.2GHz is strange.
http://ark.intel.com/products/65520/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

Jonnibravo · 4 Mar 2016 at 08:26

doyll said:
3.8GHz is i5-3570K stock turbo speed so that is normal. 4.2GHz is strange.
http://ark.intel.com/products/65520/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

When I boot up windows task manager is showing the CPU running at 4.22ghz at various points during boot and the CPU is not always running at 100% when this happens. The processor sometimes reaches 505-60c during these times.

Any one know what could happening, I'm pretty convinced now that although the water block may need reseating this is an issue relating to a strnage overclock. I have set the mainboard back to optimised settings pretty much everything is either on normal setting or auto.

Disco_P · 4 Mar 2016 at 10:59

Jonnibravo said:
When I boot up windows task manager is showing the CPU running at 4.22ghz at various points during boot and the CPU is not always running at 100% when this happens. The processor sometimes reaches 505-60c during these times.

Any one know what could happening, I'm pretty convinced now that although the water block may need reseating this is an issue relating to a strnage overclock. I have set the mainboard back to optimised settings pretty much everything is either on normal setting or auto.

Task manager doesn't have a ****ing clue when it comes to clock speeds. I regularly see it report over 6Ghz on my chip. CPU-Z or HWMonitor will give you the actual core speed.

Jonnibravo · 4 Mar 2016 at 19:16

Disco_P said:
Task manager doesn't have a ****ing clue when it comes to clock speeds. I regularly see it report over 6Ghz on my chip. CPU-Z or HWMonitor will give you the actual core speed.

I'll give this a go tonight and report back!!