Normal 8700K Behavior?

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Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if I am experiencing normal behavior from my system. I currently have an 8700k with an Asus z370 prime and am seeing the CPU fluctuate in speed quite a lot. That is, its constantly bouncing up and down between idle clocks and full boost (attached image).

I previously had a 4690k with a Z97A board, and idle clocks would stay up until there was actual load on the cpu. If this is how modern cpu/boards operate, then I am fine with it, I just want confirmation that it is supposed to happen this way.

I am also running windows in "balanced" mode, as I had with my 4690k.

Thanks!
 

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you may have a virus. thats generally what happens when youve got something running in the background. its definitely not normal.
 
Mine does not do that, could be difference in motherboards though.

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The blips up or down were from launching snipping tool twice.
 
Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if I am experiencing normal behavior from my system. I currently have an 8700k with an Asus z370 prime and am seeing the CPU fluctuate in speed quite a lot. That is, its constantly bouncing up and down between idle clocks and full boost (attached image).

I previously had a 4690k with a Z97A board, and idle clocks would stay up until there was actual load on the cpu. If this is how modern cpu/boards operate, then I am fine with it, I just want confirmation that it is supposed to happen this way.

I am also running windows in "balanced" mode, as I had with my 4690k.

Thanks!
Totally normal I have the same board and no problems, in bios turn to performance mode and high performance in windows and all will be fine.
 
Yeah, I am running Asus Aura. Could that be the cause?

\es, it uses lots of CPU and will keep your frequency high on all but color-cycle and static color - for which is all their lame controller chip can do.
 
Definitely something in the background eating CPU cycles. Using the Balanced power profile your CPU should be downclocking to the minimum most of the time when idle.
 
Open NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL and make sure POWER MANAGEMENT MODE (it's under 3D settings) is set to "Prefer Maximum Performance"
 
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