Why does Computer Properties show my stock CPU speed and not the overclocked speed?

[Akagi]

On my rig in computer properties it says:

"Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz @ 3.3GHz"

Instead of:

"Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz @ 4.7GHz"

Why is this?

On my old pentium 4 rig with an overclock (windows 7 still) the properties page said:

"Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz @ 3.2GHz"

So why is this new CPU different? is it because of turbo-boost?

 

[Akagi]

I have no idea honestly. With my 2600K @ 4.4ghz, initially it said @ 5.8ghz, but then after a few Windows updates it dropped to 4.3ghz. CPU-Z still says 4.4ghz though. So I just assumed it could be Windows not reading SB/IB speeds properly.

oh windows, you so silly... Overclocking from 4.2GHz to 4.7GHz only increased my experience index score from 7.6 to 7.7 out of 7.9 lol xD (dont worry, i disregard the exp index but i re-ran it out of curiosity...) I want to OC my ram to stop any bottlenecking, but my motherboard is getting a #45 error when i try...

 

[Akagi]

Mine does the same nothing to worry about.

ok

It is still quite annoying though... The Computer properties is a convenient place to go when people ask for your basic specs (if they are there with you and you want to show them something not too complicated) and it doesn't even show the right clock speed lol