Hi,
Yesterday I've changed my "old" Q8400 to "new" Q9400 - but reason is not the subject of this thread
I've noticed new option appeared in my BIOS settings: Hyper Threading, which I can make enabled, or disabled. Motherboard is Asus Striker II Extreme, so I've made a quick look into its guide and there such option, indeed, but it shows up once HT-capable CPU is seated only.
I'm more than sure that Q9400 doesn't support HT, probably most of you too But it's not the end of strange things. My rig works fine (both with Q8400 and with Q9400 as well), but I do some overclocking sometimes.
Now, when I overclocked Q9400 - OCCT soft shows temps only for 2 cores... I thought it was something wrong with OCCT's settings, but no - 2 cores remain inactive. RealTemp shows me temps for 2 cores, too :-] Task Manager still shows 4 cores, or threads anyway.
Quick brain drain, and I've enabled Hyper Threading in BIOS. Reset.. and voila - OCCT and RealTemp show now all 4 cores' temp.
Because it's not ordinary behaviour I'd like to find out what is going on. Of course, no one in Asus would answer my question as Striker is EOL product.
One thing I've got in my mind that might be connected somehow: when I've bought this motherboard, couple of pins in CPU socket was bent. I've made them straight to get mobo working and never experienced issues with any of CPUs: E6750, E8400, Q8400 (including overclocking).
Q9400 is really Q9400 (R0), not ES or something.
Any ideas, how can I explain this ?
Thank you
Yesterday I've changed my "old" Q8400 to "new" Q9400 - but reason is not the subject of this thread
I've noticed new option appeared in my BIOS settings: Hyper Threading, which I can make enabled, or disabled. Motherboard is Asus Striker II Extreme, so I've made a quick look into its guide and there such option, indeed, but it shows up once HT-capable CPU is seated only.
I'm more than sure that Q9400 doesn't support HT, probably most of you too
But it's not the end of strange things. My rig works fine (both with Q8400 and with Q9400 as well), but I do some overclocking sometimes. Now, when I overclocked Q9400 - OCCT soft shows temps only for 2 cores... I thought it was something wrong with OCCT's settings, but no - 2 cores remain inactive. RealTemp shows me temps for 2 cores, too :-] Task Manager still shows 4 cores, or threads anyway.
Quick brain drain, and I've enabled Hyper Threading in BIOS. Reset.. and voila - OCCT and RealTemp show now all 4 cores' temp.
Because it's not ordinary behaviour
I'd like to find out what is going on. Of course, no one in Asus would answer my question as Striker is EOL product.One thing I've got in my mind that might be connected somehow: when I've bought this motherboard, couple of pins in CPU socket was bent. I've made them straight to get mobo working and never experienced issues with any of CPUs: E6750, E8400, Q8400 (including overclocking).
Q9400 is really Q9400 (R0), not ES or something.
Any ideas, how can I explain this ?
Thank you
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