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Old 07-11-2010, 11:41 PM   #1
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I been playing with overckocking my new cpu. The cpu-z shows it is overclocked but windows does not and passmark only shows stock settings when I ran it.. Am I doing something wrong?
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Old 07-12-2010, 04:36 AM   #2
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I been playing with overckocking my new cpu. The cpu-z shows it is overclocked but windows does not and passmark only shows stock settings when I ran it.. Am I doing something wrong?
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Go to Control Panel | System and look to the right of "Processor" listing. If you see the installed processor type and speed followed by the OC speed then you know Windows recognized the OC.
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