Does Windows 7 not report Sandy Bridge overclocks correctly?

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OldM3ta

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Both Windows 7 and PC Wizard 2010 show my bios-overclocked Sandy Bridge i5-2500K at stock speeds. Yet CPU-ID shows the overclock and verifies it. What's the deal?

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not that is matters, but a windows experience score of 7.5 for a i5 2500k @4.5. that's not right. should be 7.9.
 
Is anyone else leaving any of the power saving features on, when overclocking? I turned off everything but c3/c6 state.
The one stability issue I have with my overclock is that the computer wont wake up from hibernation.
 
+1 Turn off any power saving that lowers the multi. When I turn on power saving settings on, windows reads it as stock clocked.
 
Draax said:
Is anyone else leaving any of the power saving features on, when overclocking? I turned off everything but c3/c6 state.
The one stability issue I have with my overclock is that the computer wont wake up from hibernation.
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I leave all mine on - no sense wasting clock cycles.
 
aphasia said:
not that is matters, but a windows experience score of 7.5 for a i5 2500k @4.5. that's not right. should be 7.9.
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WIE is not something that you should look too deeply into. I've had both my graphics card and SSD scores vary, ranging from 7.0-7.8 over several re-test.
 
Forceman said:
I leave all mine on - no sense wasting clock cycles.
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I left onlt the C3/C6 state on and it appears to work very well. When idle the processor drops to a multi of x16. I guess I don't have any power saving feature on though .. maybe I will look into enabling them.
 
Windows and Steam would incorrectly collect information about my E8400, it would always say it was 4.5GHz. I think they were disregarding that my multiplier was changed from 9 to 8 so instead of reading 8×500FSB it was reading 9×500FSB.

Oddly enough, they're properly collecting info from my i7-950 even though I've changed the multiplier from it's original position.
 
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