My pentium e6300 isn't working right?

[td0615vfx]

the reviewer's e6300's core speed is at 2.8 mhz like it is supposed to be and at a x 10.5 multiplier but my e6300 corespeed is 1.6 ghz which is nearly half of what it should be... same with the multiplier. Also the instructions are different but I dont really know what that means and the name is different but i dont think that is significant. Does anyone know what is with my corespeed and multiplier or how to fix it?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

It is downclocking to save power.

Fire up a CPU intensive program and it will shoot up to normal.

 

[yhelothar]

^^ speedstep
you could disable it in the bios, but it's a good power saving feature. Notice how the core VID is lower too.

 

[Maximilian]

the reviewer's e6300's core speed is at 2.8 mhz like it is supposed to be and at a x 10.5 multiplier but my e6300 corespeed is 1.6 ghz which is nearly half of what it should be... same with the multiplier. Also the instructions are different but I dont really know what that means and the name is different but i dont think that is significant. Does anyone know what is with my corespeed and multiplier or how to fix it?

You have CPU-Z version 1.58, the reviewer has 1.52.2, the instructions are exactly the same just displayed differently, except for VT-x which may have been disabled on the reviewers board, either way it dosent matter too much.

Lower clock speed is intel speedstep lowering it to save power. When you play a game etc it will go back up to 2.8ghz or whatever its meant to be at.

 

[td0615vfx]

It is downclocking to save power.

Fire up a CPU intensive program and it will shoot up to normal.

i already tried that but it just stayed at 1.6,

takenoprisoners ok thanks ill check it out,

and Maximilian oh ok thanks

 

[td0615vfx]

does anybody know how to turn off speed step so I could get my cpu back to its max potential?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

You have to go in your motherboard's bios and turn it off.

 

[td0615vfx]

there isn't anyway to turn it off with the computer on? oh well ok

 

[td0615vfx]

i just went to the bios to turn off speed step but there is no option to turn it off. I have an american mega trends bios does anyone know how I can turn it off?

 

[Blastman]

Try running a benchmark like the Fritz 12 benchmark and see what your score is. We can compare it to other similar CPU's to see how fast it is running.

 

[td0615vfx]

Try running a benchmark like the Fritz 12 benchmark and see what your score is. We can compare it to other similar CPU's to see how fast it is running.

yeah thats a good idea thanks ill try it out tommorow

 

[Rifter]

Turn off speedstep and then see what happenes. Sometimes it can be burried in the BIOS but it will be there somewhere.

 

[td0615vfx]

I looked all over the bios but I couldn't find it but I don't think speed step is web on because I got rmclock and went to advanced CPU settings to turn speed step off but it was already unchecked and greyed out but c1e was on I turned that off but still no good

 

[Blastman]

You could try and reset your BIOS to defaults. In the main menu there should be an option to load optimized defaults.

THG has a chart of Fritz benchmarks. The E6500 (2.93) scores 4109. Your E6300 should score ~ 3923 … (2.8/2.93 x 4109). If you CPU is really running at only 1600MHz, it would only score ~ 2241 in Fritz.