OK, smarty pants, explain this one !

[alienware]

Warning. This is some really deep mind bending chit here..

So after doing some reading about OCgenie I decided to have a play. Now in my actual bios the only thing it will let me do is clock my CPU to the max turbo speed of 3.4ghz.

However, after reading a review I saw them mention the fact that you can access your bios completely and fully within Windows using their ClickEFI software.

What happened after is so weird and freaky that I bet no one here can explain it..

So I loaded up ClickEFI and I got this.. I then enabled OCgenie.



OK so as we can see I now have full, unlocked control of my CPU..

So, I upped both the regular multi to 40 and the GT multi to 40.



For a while it looked like my PC had crashed, but after about two minutes I got this.



OK so I rebooted and pressed Delete to access the bios (because these settings I'm seeing in Windows are not there in the actual bios) and I got a message on the screen in yellow saying -

You have enabled OC Genie. Please do not change any settings in the bios.

OK, furry muff. So, in I went for a look.



And to my amazement the CPU had actually overclocked and was showing the full speed in my actual bios

But... When I went into Windows and loaded CPUZ I got.



So come on then, explain that. How can my CPU be overclocked in my actual physical bios yet, when I get to Windows it isn't.

 

[alpenwasser]

So come on then, explain that. How can my CPU be overclocked in my actual physical bios yet, when I get to Windows it isn't.

I actually had the same issue with my 2600k and my Asus P8P67, but naturally on Linux.
Overclocked it in BIOS, got into OS, and the OS always displayed 3.401 GHz.

I overclocked the CPU to different levels and compared the benchmarks with the alleged
increase in clock speed (so, I made a plot of BIOS clock speed vs. benchmark results), and
there was a definite correlation between the two, so my M/B and CPU were running as I had
specified, it was just the O/S that was displaying incorrect values.

I would wager there is something similar going on, either your BIOS or your O/S is displaying
an incorrect value, I highly doubt your CPU is running oc'd when you're in the BIOS and then
clocks down in Windows.

 

[alienware]

Yeah but how strange is that? I just ran 3Dmark and sure enough, no improvement over 3.2ghz.

I'm wondering if Intel put something on your PC to lock out overclocks on locked CPUs.

 

[alienware]

Apols for DP but man, this just gets weirder by the minute !!

This is Intel's OWN Extreme Tuning Utility and before I did the above it was greyed out to 34 max and could not be changed..



Look at the top right, it's even reporting my turbo as 4ghz :S

 

[tinytomlogan]

Its a bios glitch. You cant overclock locked intel CPU's. end of.

 

[alienware]

Its a bios glitch. You cant overclock locked intel CPU's. end of.

I don't think it's a bios glitch as such dude. I think, in fact I'm 99% positive that in the bios the overclock is alive and well. Mostly because I monitored the temps with the CPU at stock in the bios and they rose 9c with the 4ghz 'enabled'.

Apparently if a non k CPU has turbo you can overclock the turbo, which is basically what I have done here. However, for some reason that turbo speed is not being reached which I would imagine is down to the physical lock on the CPU.

I need to do more reading about 'cycles' tbh. All turbo non K Intel CPUs can be overclocked by a set amount of samples. In fact, Asrock have a Windows app called No K oc that does just that

 

[Deejeta]

its the same for ivy etc.
not going to get far with non-k chip. even if you tinker with the bclk which i wouldnt really recommend.
want to overclock, buy a k chip.

 

[Vicey]

I made a thread on here recently about how rubbish MSI's uEFI is and looking at your screenshots you have basically identical uEFI to the one I have.

We are dealing with a company that can't even get their uEFI to work properly when used over HDMI, don't expect anything they say in the EFI to be accurate.

I also found funnily enough that their EFI told me my RAM was running at 1.5v when it wasn't and my CPU was running at 1.25v when it wasn't. They need to get their act together. (This is on an MSI X79-GD-45-8D)

 

[FTLN]

Are there any apps that can read ram voltage apart from msi control center ?

 

[SuB]

Multimeter.exe should do it Nothing more reliable than that.