You said "I keep seeing people saying that they were hoping that the CPU will run at 4.4Ghz with 100% load. It's not entirely correct."
I am actually running my CPU now at 4.4Ghz with 100% load with good temp using the stock cooler (Note: that is my replaced new CPU, the old one was faulty), I reached that result by tweaking Ken-Intel suggested settings in UTX, here are my new tweaked settings:
- Vcore: 1.150v
- Processor Current Limit: 161A (Note: if I set it to 105A as suggested I get 4.2Ghz at %100 load instead of 4.4Ghz)
- Set all multipliers to 44x / 44x / 44x / 44x
Using Ken-Intel suggested settings and with the above tweaking I get:
79c max using a UTX stress test
73c (steady, no more no less) using AIDA64 stress test (CPU stress test)
79c max using IntelThermalTest v0.2 (c) 2014 by Karwos
79c max using OCCT
All using the stock cooler at 100% at 4.4Ghz (all cores not just the first two)
Note: Any FPU stress test or any stress test that uses AVX instructions could/may increase the temp dramatically even with the use of aftermarket coolers (as it happened to some users) and I have noticed (by trying) that when that happens the frequency goes from 4.4Ghz to 4.2Ghz/4.0Ghz and the cause is not the thermal throttling only, but the power/current throttling too, maybe those AVX instructions draw too much power than the normal instructions but I don't know for sure that requires further testing.