Just had a new pc from overclockers and when I play a game all my cpu cores go to 4222mhz! When on the desktop the p-cores are at 5327 and e-cores are at 4222mhz. Is this normal? Wondering why the p-cores drop to 4222mhz while gaming?
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I7 1300kf advice
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Yeah, try another tool like hwmonitor or hwinfo.
Take a few screenshots of hwinfo's sensor tab and we can check the temps, power draw and clocks to see if anything is throttling.
I'd also run some CPU and GPU benchmarks, like Unigine and Cinebench and compare your scores.
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A) Make sure your PL1 and PL2 values are set at the CPU spec (253).
B) Use Hwinfo.
B) Use Hwinfo.
R23 Multi-threaded?
In Guru3D's review, the CPU scored 31,034. Memory was DDR5-7200.
If your CPU was not boosting correctly, I think this score would have been considerably lower.
Corsair vengeance 44800c36 5600 memory x 2, 4090 gpu and a 13700kf cpu are my specs. For what it's worth I'm happy with the performance I get, just curious if I'm leaving something on the table! Again thank you for your help and keep the suggestions coming
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HWInfo has 3 sections in the sensors called "Core thermal throttling" "Core critical temperature" and "Core power limit exceeded", if you play your game and any of those turn to yes then you know that you're not at max clock speeds.
All sensors say no. It's really strange in that if I'm in full screen in a game the p-cores immediately drop to 4222mhz! However if i press the windows key and still continue to play a game, the cores jump bk upto 5327
You need to use an external image hosting site like imgbb or imgur.
Like @Tetras says if your CPU is benching where it should in synthetic tests then I'm not sure I'd worry. Do you know if it's all 3d games that show this downclocking, for instance if you run Timespy benchmark is your CPU score where you'd expect?
Another thing you might also check is that your motherboard has the correct all core ratio set for your CPU, in HW info there's a screen with all your hardware in a tree menu, if you click on your CPU there's a bit where it tells you the all core ratio, for example I have a 12700 and its ratios look like this:
So as you can see the more cores that are active the lower the ratio goes. That said I think the 13700k is supposed to be 53x for 7 or 8 cores active.
So as you can see the more cores that are active the lower the ratio goes. That said I think the 13700k is supposed to be 53x for 7 or 8 cores active.