Ok... Im sure im just stupid or something. Or this programs waaaay off. But As you can see Ive overclocked this thing a bit. Yet the charts are showing it run at a crazy low speed??? take a look at it and let me know If im just dumb. Or its the program. Or I need to fix something. thanks guys. http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8863/overclockq.png
The problem is that these aren´t your actual speed it´s not a bug or something, it´s just you are running at lower speed because your pc is at idle mode. If you run any video bench like futeremark, or far cry for example it will push your video to those clocks that you specified but probalby crash. I always increase 5 mhz it´s painful but faster clocks not always help.
To save a significant amount of power and heat, your system component (CPU, GPU, FSB, etc..) slows down when idle. They auto-"overclock" up to the normal speed, as you need the power. Let look at my CPU and just that (see signature), when I browse folders my CPU is at ~800 Mhz. But when I start a application or game is increases. The more intensive the software is to load the more power the CPU will clock. Max speed of the CPU is 2200 MHz (2.2 GHz). In result, my CPU is at 35-36C when idle after several hours, which is very cool for a 110W Dual core CPU. The fan turn so slow that you see the fan blades. But of course when I pay a game the fan kicks in my CPU is at 2.2Ghz (and can OC 10% automatically when needed) but then more power is drawn and well more heat.
