CPU-Z readings.

[Dookie]

I have a 3500+ winchester on a Gigabyte K8-NXP-SLI running at 218x11. Now 218x11=2398 right? But CPU-Z says i'm running at 2.46. Is CPU-Z off or what?

 

[dennisjai215]

Originally posted by: Dookie
I have a 3500+ winchester on a Gigabyte K8-NXP-SLI running at 218x11. Now 218x11=2398 right? But CPU-Z says i'm running at 2.46. Is CPU-Z off or what?

well if you watch cpu-z sometimes the multiplier or the fsb jumps a bit by like .1-.7 or whatever thats why the speed changes

 

[Dookie]

Thanks! I've never watched it, guess i'll have to check that out.

 

[Montrey]

also, many motherboard manufacturers actually perform at a slightly higher clock rate than what is listed in the bios. my ep-8rda3+ comes from the factory ~0.9mhz FSB faster than what the bios shows. at the 11x cpu multiplier i run, that comes out to about 10mhz, and coupled with it slightly varying i watch it in CPU-Z, its enough to throw it off somewhat. you can find this referred to in some motherboard roundups here on anandtech. i've heard that mostly it's just to make a motherboard slightly faster in benchmarking, when compared to non-overclocked boards.