Solved Intel I7 4790k Turboboost enabled but not working

[Thornton]

I have Turboboost enabled in the bios. It says its on. Its supposed to boost to 4.4ghz, stock 4.0. When I check Computer Details, its still 4.0ghz. I have experience and don't mind overclocking manually, however, I would much prefer to first try turbo boost and see how that works. I might find I dont need to OC anyways. It would be nice to see if I can give boos a try before I go tampering with numbers and voltages. I might still OC. Like I said. Would be nice to give turbo a try before I start messing with things potentially needlessly.

I am using an ASUS z97 HERO VII motherboard, and like I mentioned in the title, an I7 4790k. I don't know that this is a item model compatibility issue or not. I wouldn't think it is because of how easily I was able to enable it in the UEFI Bios. On the off chance it is, the models might be important.

I see other people with this issue on the Intel and TomsHW forums, but after trying their fixes, provided they were not out of date, nothing worked.

Could I be missing something? is there a driver I need, perhaps? Unfortunately, this is my first tower with an Intel chip in many years and I am not familiar with all the community recommended drivers. Only those that are said to be required by the mobo or have come with it. On that note, though, I do have all the mandatory drivers up to date, per the Intel website.

I appreciate any helpful responses. It means a lot. Hopefully this is a heard of problem, that I am just missing a step, somewhere, and this will be an easy fix (fingers crossed).

 

[Thornton]

I made a discovery that the turbo boost isnt really OC, technically, just dynamically expanding as needed, Marked as solved