I've just installed an MSI z490 with a i5-10600k cpu. When I load any flight sim, I see the cpu clock at 4.1 rather a higher setting.

I understand that this cpu can autothrottle up to 4.8 without any OC modifications. I checked the bios settings and all looks normal.

When I've used Dragon, the MSI utility, and placed the pc in "game mode", I hear the fan running fast, even when I have not loaded the flight sim. I don't want the pc to always run on turbo.

Any ideas?

thanks

tony

Click on the question mark next to the max turbo frequency on the intel spec sheet:  https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199311/intel-core-i5-10600k-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-80-ghz.html

That 4.8GHz max turbo freq is the max single core frequency that the stock turbo boost schedule will support.  Flight sims are not single-core applications--P3D and MSFS use all the cores, so that 4.8GHz figure is irrelevant under a sim's multi-processor load.  4.1 is what the CPU scheduler gives you with all six cores heavily loaded.

The good news is that with a K-suffix CPU and the Z490 you can override the scheduler and force an all-core clock...getting 4.8 on all six cores may take some minor tweaking with the voltages, and your CPU cooling will need to be up to the task. Oh, and, welcome to the world of overclocking!

 

thanks.

tc