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What is "Maximum Frequency", why is it above 100% most of the time, and why is it so high when it should basically be idle?
As stated in the comments, your processor supports Intel Turbo Boost Technology.
If you are not scared by (very slightly) technical papers, I suggest you to take a quick look at that paper.
Your CPU ...
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Threads (versus cores) and rated CPU clock speed, what is the effect?
First, cores do not "have" threads. A thread is a property of a process. Processes and threads are things the operating system creates and the CPU really has no direct concept of them. Advertisers who ...
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The Silicon Lottery
CPUs are very complex and contain billions of tiny transistors, each only a few nm in size. There are bound to be small differences between each CPU manufactured. One of these factors is the critical ...
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Relationship between CPU and Memory Clock Speeds
TL;DR: First rule out modules that have clocks faster than what your chipset can support. Then pick modules with highest clock rate to CAS latency (CL) ratio. Don't mix modules with different clock ...
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CPU stuck at base clock after BIOS update
The graph shows utilization, which is not the same as clock speed, so the graph itself is fine, but if the clock speed never changes from base speed, it seems that Intel SpeedStep is disabled in BIOS.
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What is the purpose of laptop OEM RAM clock speed being faster than CPU maximum?
The rated clock speed of RAM is not the clock speed it operates (or must operate) in, but its maximum supported clock speed. Thus there is no "clocking down" per se, it's just run at a lower clock ...
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CPU works louder when I am plugging my laptop in
Since you didnt list your laptop's model, I cant say with the following with 100% certainty. However, it is very highly probable to be correct.
Your laptop is working absolutely as it should. 3.9 ...
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Why does adding CPU cores make programs run faster?
Does this mean that increasing CPU cores will not make a program run faster, unless you design the program to use multiprocessing?
That's exactly how it is. However, you can make use of more CPU ...
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Does upgrading RAM with different Speed, affect the pc or affect all the RAM?
As long as the RAM is working and being recognized by your motherboard, the faster chip will run at the same speed as the slower chip. Since the slower chip is what speed you were already running at, ...
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CPU looks overclocked even though its in a laptop with base settings
Almost all processors self-throttle these days. No user intervention required.
It is not 'broken' it is doing its job. If it gets too hot it will throttle down again to cool itself.
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My laptop's cpu runs at more than 150% maximum frequency
That's completely normal.
Let's have a look at the spec sheet.
Processor Base Frequency 2.30 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 4.00 GHz
What Resource Monitor reports as "Maximum Frequency" is just ...
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Why is the base clock in task manager lower than the titled clock speed?
Manufacturers can adjust the processor performance to fit the thermal limits of their cooling system, adjusting the nominal clock speed and limiting higher clock speeds.
The Intel page for the i7-...
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What are highest clock frequencies for consumer CPU achieved with extreme cooling?
if you're looking for the fasted overclocking achieved I believe the following post will answer your question (and a lot more): https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cpu_frequency/halloffame
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Wrong memory speed with Supermicro X11SAE
The Xeon E3-1230 v5 does not support DDR4-2400 memory.
Per the Intel Ark page for Xeon E3-1230 v5
Memory Types: DDR4-1866/2133
Your memory is operating at the highest compatible speed supported ...
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How does BCLK work in regards to "overclocking" non K Intel CPU's
The values are MHz and the CPU multiplier gives you the final clock rate. Boosting/Turbo just adds to that/modifies that.
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Cpu Type vs Cpu clock
Depends on what you do when you're on your computer:
More cores, slower clock speed
Pros
Applications that support multi-threading will greatly benefit from
having a higher number of cores at their ...
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