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Sunday, January 08, 2023 7:03 PM (permalink)
I run a Z390 with a 9700k. I set it to 5.0ghz from new, and never really thought about it until lately it seems I'm slightly CPU bound by some newer games. BIOS is up to date and I've set the clock to manual at a frequency that brings it to 5.0ghz, but from within Windows, task manager and CPUZ both tell me its just 3.6ghz. I installed E-Leet which I've used before, but now it doesn't work and gives "error Ring0:open!" when I try to run it. Anyone have any suggestions? 
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    Sultan.of.swing
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    Re: Overclock not seeming to take Sunday, January 08, 2023 11:27 PM (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby Cool GTX Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:12 PM
    If windows power plan is set to balanced and C states are active then you will not see the cores hit the max frequency until they are working.
    Set the power plan to high performance and see if it reads correctly then.
    HWInfo64 is a good program to have as task manager is not accurate and with HWInfo64 you can see what the effective clocks are to make sure the CPU is doing what you ask.
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    Re: Overclock not seeming to take Tuesday, January 10, 2023 2:41 AM (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Cool GTX Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:12 PM
    I'm in the same boat only Eleet works. You might need a different version. In my case even, when I load the system it only show 47X on the cpu multiplier in both CPU-z and E-Leet. E-Leet does show all 8 cpu cores at 50X or 5G. It is the Ring Multi speed that is reported at 47X. 
    So why does E-Leet show the ring speed and not the cpu core speed?

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    Re: Overclock not seeming to take Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:31 AM (permalink)
    Changing the power plan seems to have worked. Though task manager still reports 3.6 base clock on the bottom of the performance tab, on the left side under CPU I can see it hitting the desired clock speeds. 
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    Re: Overclock not seeming to take Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:12 PM (permalink)
    Good to see changing the Windows power setting helped

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    Re: Overclock not seeming to take Wednesday, January 11, 2023 8:16 PM (permalink)
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    Though task manager still reports 3.6 base clock on the bottom of the performance tab, on the left side under CPU I can see it hitting the desired clock speeds. 

    You are seeing 3.6 base clock in Task Manager because Windows and its Task Manager knows what is the base clock for certain CPU and base clock for 9700K -IS- 3.6 GHz.
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