Windows 10: Something causes overclocking on laptop

The first symptom was the laptop fan would run continuously.
To investigate, I started Task Manager and looked at "Performance". Performance shows "Maximum Speed" is 2.40 GHz
But the actual utilization speed was consistently running at 2.85 GHz or thereabouts - running steadily over the rated 2.4 ghz

The fan stopped running and the CPU speed dropped back to normal after I "looked" at Google Backup and Sync in the System Tray.
(I "looked" at a lot of things in Task Manager - trying to figure out what might have been responsible for the overclocking.)

I'm at a loss for what might be causing this. . .the fan has come on a few times since then but by the time I open Task Manager the CPU speeds drops back to below it's maximum.

Any ideas as to what causes overclocking? (I've never experimented with anything to do with CPU performance.)
If it happens again, any ideas as to how to find out what causes the overclocking?

:)

 

BSOD - Bad pool header

Probably caused by : memory corruption

IF overclocked something please STOP Now.

Run Driver Verifier to see what driver caused the problem. Do not run all the time.

Run MemTest more hours.

Regards.

 

BSOD Windows 10 Pro - clean install

BugCheck 1A, {41792, ffff828000016590, 20000000, 0}

Probably caused by : memory_corruption ( ONE_BIT )

If overclocked something set your bios to default.

Run memtest more hours

replace your sticks if necessary

 

Nothing is overclocking the CPU, unless you go in and make those changes in the bios. A CPU can actually be faster for all cores than what the spec sheets state. As the OS gets to know the hardware, it will adopt and actually run at what the CPU will do, which as it looks you have a bit faster than you thought. Download Z-CPU and see what it shows. As for the fan running, that happens when the CPU gets locked into a process that needs all of the CPU to complete its task.

 

It could be the Intel Turbo Boost technology causing this. You will find this in the BIOS - it is Intel's way of utilising the processor to its best and is perfectly normal.

 

Exactly.....it's your turbo boost....see here
This is an excerpt from that link.
Performance

• # of Cores2
• # of Threads4
• Processor Base Frequency2.40 GHz
• Max Turbo Frequency3.00 GHz
• Cache4 MB
• Bus Speed5 GT/s DMI2
• TDP15 W
• Configurable TDP-down Frequency600 MHz
• Configurable TDP-down7.5 W