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Intel CPU Turbo mode?
My CPU is an i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz (i.e. not overclocked). I use the PC to run X-Plane 11, pretty much exclusively (I have another PC for everything else), which quite often pushes the CPU to 100% use on all cores. My cooler deals with this nicely...
But according to my little CPU desktop gadget, the CPU usage, although it often dips well below 4.00GHz, never goes above it, into 'Turbo Mode'. When the CPU is working hard on all cores, I would expect to see the clock go up towards 4400MHz, but as I say, I have never seen that. I checked in the BIOS and the turbo option is definitely enabled.
The CPU moving up to 4.4GHz would make a difference to performance in X-Plane, so why do I only ever see the reported CPU clock go down from 4GHz and never up into the preset turbo clock?
Wondered about overclocking to 4.5GHz, but I am rather timid in such matters, fearful of getting something wrong and ruining the CPU! If anyone can do that, I can!
Thanks,
Martin