Cannot Overclock on ASUS Maximus VIII Hero

[Enad1]

Hi, I'm have a very frustrating issue with the 'latest and greatest' board by ASUS. The Maximus VIII Hero, apparently designed for overclocking, simply will not overclock.

I'm using an i7 6700k. I've set the CPU Ratio to 45, and Core Voltage to 1.35. Disabled any sort of power saving feature that could interfere with the overclock, and while the motherboard and TurboV Core show my multiplier is 45, I'm still at 4.0Ghz in every program I check. CPUZ, Task Manager, and Realtemp still show me at x40 Multiplier.

So I'm not really sure what to do. OCing has been a breeze on every single other board I've ever owned, except this one. I'm 99% sure I'm doing the right thing, as this is all I had to do on previous boards, but maybe I'm missing some other aspect I have to do on these Z170 boards.

It's very frustrating that it's showing me I've edited these values but then when I check them in Windows, there's no change.
I've spoken with a friend who has the same motherboard and CPU and he has done the exact same steps as me and can successfully overclock so I'm just confused and annoyed. Is there anyone that can help me out with this?

[Chino]

Make sure your motherboard is on the latest BIOS.

[JustinThyme]

It was explained. This is how the CPU works. Intel going green. Nothing wrong with a lower multiplier when you are at idle. Saves power and produces less heat. If you want it to stay at full speed disable cstates and go into the OS power options, advanced and set the CPU min to 100% if you want 100% all the time.

[nipzon]

Thx for the reply and suggestions

[darkbreeze]

I realize this is an older thread, but I felt compelled to add a little something to the conversation.

This might be (Having to have Turbo enabled, in order to overclock) "How it works" on ASUS boards from Z170 on, but it is certainly NOT how it works for all motherboards within the Intel fold. It's not an "Intel" thing, it's an ASUS thing, at minimum. I just switched to a Maximus VIII Hero board from a Gigabyte Z170x-Gaming 5 and my daily driver 4.6Ghz OC on that board did not require Turbo to be enabled. It was absolutely disabled. Same chipset, same CPU, different brand of board. So it's a fundamental part of how ASUS implemented overclocking on their boards, it is not specifically an Intel architectural requirement.

Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed with ASUS after coming back to them because of their bios being much better in some OTHER areas than what I found on my Gigabyte board. Previously, with my AM3+ Sabertooth board, I did not have to have turbo features enabled to overclock and I'm pretty damn sure that I didn't have to have it enabled on my Z97 Hero either. I guess it really isn't a tremendous deal breaker, but I'd prefer to not have the platform wishing to boost beyond what I've set the multipliers to and having to "boost" to the clocks I've set.

I'd much rather have it prefer to be at that setting as the baseline, and then reduce based on Speedstep and C state properties in order to reduce power consumption when full clocks are not necessary. Clearly, those two things are not the same even if they roughly achieve the same end result.