i7 clock speed

[dnlewis15]

I recently purchased a components to build a i7 p6t pc, I have everything working and installed vista64 fine, I thought after reading a few reviews about the cpu running hot, to install Everest Ultimate and its showing the cpu clock speed at about 1700MHz not the 2.66 I thought It should be running at.

I have tried checking in the bios for anything I may have missed and checked the internet for simular problems with the i7 but cant seem to find anything.

Is this normal for the cpu or have I missed something I should have done to use the cpu at its max speed?

Thanks in advance.

 

[bluesouljah]

Speedstep is enabled. If you want to switch it off, then go into the Ai Tweaker menu. It should be called Intel Speed step tech

 

[mmj_uk]

Speedstep dynamically reduces the clockspeed of your processor when idle in order to conserve power.

 

[dnlewis15]

ah great thankyou gonna try that now.

 

[dnlewis15]

ok tried disabling Speedstep and now Everest is flickering between 1570 and 2677MHz its not settling down at 2.66. :/

 

[mmj_uk]

There's no need to disable Speedstep really unless you're overclocking, no benefit in having your CPU running full speed when it's not doing anything.

 

[dnlewis15]

I was having a play around with overclocking the system, its running at around 40ºC idle atm but wanted to make sure that it didnt go any higher @ 2.66Mhz before overclocking.

Just cant understand why atm with speedstep disabled its still not running at 2.66Mhz.

 

[mmj_uk]

Try disabling it in the BIOS instead.

 

[dnlewis15]

That is where I disabled it.

 

[MooMoo444]

Common error when trying to disable speedstep, is people forget to disable C1E also

 

[dnlewis15]

Thanks I will check it now

 

[dnlewis15]

Great thankyou all for the help! that seems to have fixed it going to try oc to about 3.2 and see what kind of temps I get now.

Thanks again for the help