is this normal?

paradisiac · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:04

hi, i spent ages playing with different settings to OC my Q8300. i have now got it running stable, the thing is, is it normal for thing like realtemp, cpuz etc to show changing multipliers and cpu speeds? they seem to change from a multiplier of 6 up to 7.5, adjusting the cpu speed accordingly, is this normal, as in the processor will run at the speed it needs to rather than the fastest speed all the time?

cmndr_andi · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:17

Hi m8

Yup, this is normal - it is a power saving feature called "Speedstep". It dynamically changes the multiplier based on usage. Its very useful and I would suggest keeping it on.

paradisiac · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:34

ok kool, was just wondering, made me panic abit when cpuz showed up a a multiplier of 6.

reflux · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:35

SpeedStep....been on Intel CPUs since the Pentium 3....hardly new.

paradisiac · 18 Dec 2009 at 11:47

its not something i have come accross before as i havent really OC'd for ages and when i did it was with AMD stuff.

paradisiac · 18 Dec 2009 at 12:51

think with a few more tweaks can get it even higher, really want to get to 3.5GHz