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Title: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: scjet on March 26, 2010, 05:56:41 pm

 Hi all,
OS: Win7-64
CPU-Z: version 1.54 (64-bit)
MB: GA-X58A-UD3R
cpu: i7-930
(its OC'd to 3.66 Ghz and running great)

 Basically right after I first boot up into win7-64, if I run CPU-Z its shows my
Core/Multiplier freq's as 3.66GHz/x22   respectively,  but about 5 or 10 minutes later it'll show these as
Core/Multiplier freq's : 1.98GHz/x12 ?

 so I installed SiSoft's latest "Sandra" and it shows the higher freq's properly (3.66Ghz/x22) as it is setup and running in my BIOS.

Also, in BIOS I "disabled" both the:
"CPU Enhanced Halt(C1E)"
"C3/C6/C7 State Suspend"
 (also, minor tweaks such as "msconfig", in "advanced boot options", -> "set to boot ALL 8 cores, ...")

 anyway, has anyone else got this from CPU-Z ?, or is there a tweak in Win7-64 i missed, ...?

thanks ahead.

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: decrypter on March 26, 2010, 10:32:35 pm

i think the 1.98 ghz x 12 is because your cpu = idle       

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: scjet on March 29, 2010, 04:06:16 pm

 mmm, I thought by "disabling" these:
"CPU Enhanced Halt(C1E)"
"C3/C6/C7 State Suspend"
I would prevent them from idling.

ok, so it looks like CPU-Z just checks some static statuses, whereas "sandra" benchmark app kicks those cores to life ?

k, thx.

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: oggmonster on March 29, 2010, 04:26:01 pm

Yeah if you ran a prime95 small fft test with CPU-Z open you should find it displays the correct results :)

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: scjet on March 29, 2010, 04:45:21 pm

Quote from: oggmonster on March 29, 2010, 04:26:01 pm

Yeah if you ran a prime95 small fft test with CPU-Z open you should find it displays the correct results :)

thx, and nice Byke.
;)

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R: CPU-Z not accurately displaying results ?
Post by: oggmonster on March 30, 2010, 09:36:37 am

No problem! And thank you!  :D