How do you check your cpu speed? I might be underclocked.

[Barrin6]

I currently have a intel 6850 3ghz dual core but I think it's running underclocked for some reason even though when I right click properties on my computer, it says 3ghz. But in the Easytune5 that came along with the motherboard gigabyte, it said my current speed is 2000.xx (xx is a random number that moves up and down. So I think it's real time)

Is there any way I can double check my core speed and if it is underclocked, how do I fix it?

[Barrin6]

Here's a picture of it



And link to the motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128012

[Barrin6]

Here's some disturbing immages

[Barrin6]

Got this http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/392/

Now it runs at 3 ghz, but it idles at 55C whenever I do that. WTF

[_dave_]

Don't worry [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Since you have now obverved it can run at 3GHz, I would expect it is clocking down when idle, to save power/heat/the environment. IIRC Intel calls this SpeedStep, AMD calls it Cool'N'Quiet.


Best thing to do is to get something like Prime95 or SuperPi, fire up a couple of instances of it to run the CPU at 100% load, and see what CPU-Z reports when the processor is loaded.

On purely random recollections from reviews, I *think* Intel chips are a little laggy in their switching - so a minor speed boost can be gained from never clocking down - but I can not be sure, and the difference would be trivial at best.

I would expect somewhere in your BIOS there is an option to disable this feature.

dave.

[Freakin]

I always turn off speedstep & cool 'n' quiet.

[Barrin6]

Thanks again for the response _dave_

[Beavis68]

Aren't there jumpers on the MB that control the overclocking? May want to try Tomshardware forums.

[Barrin6]

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Aren't there jumpers on the MB that control the overclocking? May want to try Tomshardware forums.

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My gigabyte mobo bios, has this C.I.A. 2 program
in bios that auto over clocks whenever it's necessary. So instead of capping at 3ghz, it would start going at 3.2 ghz. I think it does the same for the lower core speeds too.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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Aren't there jumpers on the MB that control the overclocking? May want to try Tomshardware forums.

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Most modern motherboards do not have jumpers anymore. The only jumper on my mobo is if I want to reset the bios.