Turn on your PC and boot into the bios. Once inside the bios, load optimized defaults. This will reset everything in the bios to stock. Next locate all the power saving features namely EIST, C1E, C3/C6 and DISABLE all these features. What this does is ensure that the CPU is running completely without any downclocking of the cpu multiplier or voltage. Once you have disabled all the power saving features, go into the VOLTAGE section of the bios and look next to the CPU CORE VOLTAGE or CPU VCORE. The setting should be at auto, but there should be a number to the left of the AUTO setting, 1.10v for example. This number is your CPUs VID and is a predetermined voltage set for your cpu.
Once you have done the above, proceed to boot into windows and open up cpuz, hwinfo and realtemp. Here you should be looking at your cpu temperatures and ensuring they are in the normal range, i.e not running at 50c with the cpu being at stock. Also please double check your cpu multiplier and cpu vcore in hwinfo/cpuz. This SHOULD be at 4.4Ghz, and the multipliers should be from 44 to 40. If the cpu vcore is showing at something like 1.4v, please go into the bios and double check the amount of cpu vcore, this is a bug on Z97 Gigabyte motherboards. This should be remedied by going to optimized defaults, or you can try to flash your motherboard to the latest bios from your manufacturer's website.
