Slight annoyance. Overclock speed not shown correctly in Windows

tribz · 12 Mar 2012 at 14:05

As subject really. Its only a slight annoyance but Windows and Futuremark ID my CPU speed as 3.3GHz whereas CPUZ correctly sees it as 4.5GHz.

Most of my previous systems have shown it correctly apart from 1 which did the same back in my XP days.

Any ideas why that is and is it changable?

beejjacobs · 12 Mar 2012 at 15:45

Windows 7 has never seen my overclocks. Possibly because it's because its a turbo boost, rather than a permanent OC (for my set up anyway).

Deception · 12 Mar 2012 at 15:49

Quite common with SB CPU's; Even Unigine detects it as stock.

reflux · 12 Mar 2012 at 15:54

I can't actually remember Windows ever picking my overclock up. It's because it reads the CPU speed from the CPU's info itself which identifies it as a Core i7 blah blah rather than reading the speed directly.

tribz · 12 Mar 2012 at 16:52

Thanks. Obviously quite common then

gavsta1981 · 12 Mar 2012 at 16:57

same here my friend tho my old 775 q6600 seen overclock