Recent content by oskara

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    ~half performance although CPU-Z shows correct speeds

    Something is seriously wrong. This morning it took like 10 tries to even get past the POST. Did a clear CMOS in the process, but it still took a few more tries so I don't think that fixed anything. I'm gonna start swapping components with a friend and see what happens. I'm suspecting a broken...
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    ~half performance although CPU-Z shows correct speeds

    Thanks for your reply. Yes, fresh Vista 64 install, latest chipset drivers. Installed 32bit XP yesterday only to check the performance there, and I get the same results. Same benchmark scores (roughly) and I've also run SuperPI: 1M SuperPI takes 32s... CPU-Z would show the throttled CPU...
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    ~half performance although CPU-Z shows correct speeds

    Hi, First of all: Note that this is NOT the standard speedstep issue... Speedstep is disabled in BIOS and all monitoring software reports the expected 100% speeds. Just got a new system (Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4, C2D E8500, 2x2G PC8500) and according to all performance tests I've run, it's got...