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I just set up an E7400 on a $50 Asus P5Q mobo and really cheap kingston DDR2-800. I am running XP.

I made sure to disable the CPU throttling stuff in the mobo.

I loaded up CoreTemp and Superpi when I got into the OS. The CPU is running at the correct speed, 10.5x266=2.793 or 2.8ghz. I ran Superpi 1m and it finished at 44 seconds!

I know superpi isn't the be all, end all of benchmarks but that does tell me something is wrong. I got a lot of crap for being worried about it on a Phenom X4 that was doing it in 1m 50s before.

What would cause this though? The ram is a single 2gb DIMM of Kingston DDR2-800. It was $23, is that a problem? I checked in the bios and auto set the timings to 5-5-5-18.

Any other ideas?

------------------------------ Q6600 @ 3.6ghz
4gb Crucial Tracer Ballistix
8800GTS 512mb @ 820/1971/1077
15,782 3DMark06 in Vista x64
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Looks normal for a dual core @ 2.8

Reply to roadrunner197069

Core2 at 2.8 should run SuperPi 1M in about 18 sec.
You could also try CPU-Z to see if it says you are running the CPU at full speed. I don't know what else the problem could be unless it has to do with the ram settings. You didn't say what multiplier you were using with the ram.

Reply to cadder

Ok sorry guys false alarm. I installed the video card drivers and it went to exactly what cadder said. 18 seconds.

Why would video drivers effect this? Strange.

------------------------------ Q6600 @ 3.6ghz
4gb Crucial Tracer Ballistix
8800GTS 512mb @ 820/1971/1077
15,782 3DMark06 in Vista x64
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