my problem was that with running super pi all cores would stay at 800 mhz because super pi is spread out amongst the 4 cores giving each core about a 6.25% load which wouldn't boost up the speed. i guess the main problem is just that the threads are being spread out on the cores so its not really showing true load so something like super pi which is single threaded takes forever to do. just moving around in windows took forever and the clock speeds rarely got kicked up.