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Don't know what your entire setup is like, but your CPU shouldn't be running at boost freq all the time. Unless you are doing intensive background loads while you multitask, and/or are using the integrated graphics, that speed should be >2GHz for both thermal and power savings. I've got a hot running i7 3770k 3.2GHz (boost to 4.1GHz) and it sits at 1.6GHz just browsing(no video). Then again, I have a full 16x PCIe graphics card so I'm not using the integrated.

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No side on the PC case always running cool never close to overheating either. It's like having the heat set to high in a home and opening the window versus running fans with window cracked across the room.

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I wasn't saying it was overheating or getting near that. I was stating that your processor frequency, as an i5 6400 should be dynamically scaling to the the work load presented to it by the kernel. I was simply curious as to why it would be running boost at all times.