Multiplier issue with new motherboard

Yes I have. The only settings for core control are either one core per cpu, two, three, or auto to enable all cores. I have all power saving settings disabled. I've set all frequency settings manually, but the cpu frequency seems to jump a little still. from around 3188 to 3280 or so.

that screen shot was at rest I believe, but I have watched them while running prime95 and intel burn test. They still appear to stay the same with core #0 at whatever multiplier I set in bios, and cores #1-3 at 16.

The bios doesn't "show" any turbo settings, but It seems that they are there, only visible when using a cpu that supports it. The same is true with APM and a few other settings apparently. When I asked gigabyte customer support about this, they claimed that all settings would be available that my cpu supported so no hidden values would affect my system, but I never have gotten very clear answers from them. I feel like they were stringing me along to a certain extent with promises of their "bios team" working on a solution, only to hear from them later that I should probably just pay to have it shipped to them so they can send me another board, that may or may not have the same problem because they haven't been able to recreate the situation. I've been planning an upgrade in the future to an 8350, but I was trying to hold off a little longer before spending more money on upgrades.

Another thing I learned today through further testing is that if I enable cool-n-quiet in bios, and set windows power plan to balanced then the system will boot with core #0 at whatever I have set, and the rest of the cores at x16, but after windows finishes booting and the multiplier drops to x4 on all cores (800mhz) then the next time the cpu is stressed then all cores will change to whatever I set in bios. I really don't get how that could be, but I have tried it a few times now after restarts and cold boots its still behaving the same. At every startup it looks like the screen shot above, but after it has time to load and "settle" I guess, then all the cores can power up to whatever multiplier I have set. It also does this if I put the computer to sleep, then when it wakes up it does the same thing. Before I had my power plan on high performance and c-n-c, c1e disabled in bios.

I suppose this setup is "acceptable" for now, I just wish I could find the source of the problem instead of bypassing it and making sacrifices. I will upgrade processors in the future, but I was hoping to find a solution that wouldn't involve having to use power saving features, thus sacrificing performance, although I'm sure its not a big sacrifice.

also, as far as temps go, the cpu idles around 30c with power saving disabled and under load never hits 50c, unless I leave prime or burn test going for more than an hour. Even then it never goes over 55c. I'm using cpuz hwmonitor right now to watch temps, but I've tried using CoreTemp, and hwinfo.

thanks again.

Sounds like this is as good as it gets until I get a new processor. Thanks again for the help.