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I2600K displaying 5.80 gigs on windows 7 ?

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ok, this is weird but need some help.

after successfully overclocking my new CPU i7 2600k to 4.0 gigs.
I right click on "my computer" and windows 7 will display i72600k @ 3.40g 5.80g ?

i am like what the heck ? so, i download CPUid and it is clocked at 4.00 g and bios does display at 4.00 gigs too.

so, any type of fix i need to know or how could i adjust Windows 7 so it will properly display my CPU overclock ?

ran prime95 for 1 hour with no BSOD !!

any comments ?

Reply to mouaher

this may seem weird, but do you have the latest windows 7 updates? that seemed to fix this problem for me with my phenom2 960T, not sure if it will be the same for intel setups tho.

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Reply to ShadyHamster

ShadyHamster wrote :

this may seem weird, but do you have the latest windows 7 updates? that seemed to fix this problem for me with my phenom2 960T, not sure if it will be the same for intel setups tho.

yes, very very weird.

I am currently using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with full updates

its very weird cause I am not crashing on full load too the fact that windows 7 sees the i7 clocked at 5.80 gigs, now that is weird.

no problem or BSOD or autorestart, basically no problems.

must be Windows 7 is buggy with the z68 or 1155 chipset.

Message edited by mouaher on 02-06-2012 at 07:59:37 AM

Reply to mouaher

i wouldnt worry to much about the cpu clock speed windows is detecting, if cpu-z is showing 4ghz then that is right.

prior to which ever update fixed this problem for me windows would never take into account the clock speed of the fsb, it would always show default fsb (200) X the multiplier.

Reply to ShadyHamster

It seems like windows uses what info it gathers when it is first installed, and stores it in the registy.

Like right now, I'm running a stock 2.5ghz q8300 at 3.1ghz and windows still says 2.5ghz... but it don't affect anything.... I think of it as an "idiot light" lol

Reply to memadmax

This is a problem with windpws. But nothing to worry about.

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Reply to amuffin

This is not a problem. The clock displayed after "@" is the stock one and will always stay at 3.40 GHz for you.

Windows always tries to tell me my i5-2500k is running at it's stock 3.3GHz too, but CPU-Z and BIOS both tell me it's at 4.0GHz (which is what I set it at )

In short, Ignore Windows

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~ASUS P8Z68-v PRO
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