is my CPU underclocked?

[arajan]

Hi,
I just bought an H67 motherboard with the core i7 2600. Not the 2600K which is overclockable but the regular 2600. Anyway, my board is by Gigabyte. It's a UD3H. I installed some of the software which came included with the board, one of which is called Easy tuner. I'm not sure this is what did it but I think this software has underclocked my CPU! When I open CPU-ID, it says my core speed is 1598 MHz and my multiplier is only 16. However when I look in CMOS, the multiplier is set to 34. I don't know what to do. I don't want all that money I spent to go to waste on a processor that only operates at 1.6 GHz. can anyone help?

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http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=153761

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[yottabit]

Part of the power saving technology on even the first gen i series is that they downclock under low load. Try running some stressful applications and then check your clock rates

 

[fffblackmage]

Is your processor Running slower than you think it should be ? Or at a different multiplier than it should be ?

 

[IGemini]

^^^Awww, beat me to it by seconds. I was just thinking "we should sticky something about this...*check*...oh, we already did..."

 

[arajan]

@vottabitt, yes when i do something heavy, the multiplier is increased to 34, but shouldn't this be the base clock speed and shu\ouldnt turbo up it to 38? why is it set to 16 and how do i fix this

 

[yottabit]

you may need to enable turbo mode

 

[remyat]

Ask yourself, do you need your processor at full speed when you're idling? thats a power save feature even my old C2D has.

Maybe you like to rev your car when you're waiting for the light to go green but new cars even stop the engine while waiting doing... nothing

Oh well, if you are cold and using your comp as heater I would understand. If you want to "fix" this just disable EIST and C1E (powersaving features) in your BIOS. If you are still cold, up the voltage and run LinX

 

[arajan]

thanks remyat. I'm pretty sure that's what it is. I'lleave it as it i. Just wanted to make sure i wasn't being gypped