No matter what i do, i'm stuck at 800mhz I7 4770 GA-Z87X-OC Force

Hi all.
I just change my old sandy 2600 to a brand new 4770k an a new motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC Force. After successfully (clean) install 10.9, realized i'm stuck at 800 mhz.
Already updated the bios to f7, and for two days in a row, play around with impossible combinations BIOS settings/ multi beast settings.
Also: i simply cant get my graphics card to work. I dont know what im doing wrong, but is impose for the system to "see" the cards. Tried with Titan, GTX 770, radeon 5570 and an old gtx 430, GraphicsEnabler=Yes and =No, turn off IGPX in BIOS etc etc.
I'm about to cry.
Please help, i don't know what to do.

My MB settings and my boot.plist


MultiBeast Configuration - 2013-11-10 07:01:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Quick Start > DSDT Free
Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > Without DSDT > ALC898 Drivers > Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > Without DSDT > HDAEnabler Drivers > Disk > 3rd Party SATA
Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC v5.3.820
Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC v5.3.820 Plugins
Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC v5.3.820 HWMonitor Application Drivers > Misc > NullCPUPowerManagement
Drivers > Misc > USB 3.0 - Universal by Zenith432
Drivers > Network > Intel - hnak's AppleIntelE1000e v2.5.4d Drivers > System > AppleRTC Patch for CMOS Reset Bootloaders > Chimera v2.2.1
Customize > Boot Options > Basic Boot Options
Customize > Boot Options > Generate CPU States Customize > Boot Options > Hibernate Mode - Desktop Customize > Boot Options > Use KernelCache
Customize > System Definitions > Mac Pro > Mac Pro 3,1 Customize > Themes > tonymacx86 Black



<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>

Hi alessandrolameiras,

just wanted to let you know the following: I also was struggling with the same build as you (same mobo and cpu) and couldn't figure out why the freq wouldn't go above 800MHz. After much playing around, updating BIOS etc etc I realised that there was a switch in the motherboard called TGR that was in position 2, this makes the mobo follow the lowest CPU ratio defined by the CPU, thus the 800MHz. Change it to position 1 which allows the Target frequency to be set by the BIOS Setup (you can check this info in the motherboard User's Manual, page 25.)

I hope this helps and solves your problem. I'm now on a 3.6GHz machine. It flies beautifully

cheers,

andré

Thank you very, very much.

Thank you, 3x! I just finished a build of a GA-Z87X-UD7-TH and this same switch was on this motherboard. I was stuck at 800MHz also. I have a i7-4770, and I thought this switch only applied to the i7-4770K and overclocking. In my manual the reference is on page 24 where it discusses OC buttons.


The manual implies that the switch can be thrown at any time on a running system, but I don't have the nerve to do that. Anyone know about that?

-px

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!!