Core i7 920 not working properly

Turn of the EPU on your board and see what happens. It could be that IT isn't working right. And also Crysis isn't a small task.

I have heard several people mention having problems but there have been several more saying they are great. Intel has already said their will be predaccessors to the i7 line (925 or 930, 950, and 975) and they will discontinue the current line. So look for that in the near future. This is one reason why I am usually not an early adopter until I hear what's the deal with the product.

Start with using task manager or another utility to see what is using 100 percent of the cpu. Also I dont know diagnostics you ran but start with cpuz and temp monitors. Make sure all the speeds/volts/temps are normal.

Then you can run stabilty checks such as prime95/orthos/memtest...etc.

Getting 100 percent cpu load for no good reason is usually a software problem(windows/malware/hung app).

the one on top is a program called aacenter.exe...
I called ASUS they said I can just remove it, but i've done detailed searches through my computer.... I cannot uninstall it

infact.. my last post made my CPU jump to 48%

Nope, no problems with 50% idle....
When i'm not doing anything my CPU is at like 1-6% on average.. But when I open ANY PROGRAM.. it shoots to 100% and I have to wait for small or large programs to open.
be it firefox, Starcraft, or Crysis/.

this is my test I did about 3 weeks after I built my computer




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this is the one I did today

I have two 2GB sticks in there, but for some reason it only reads 3 or 2.5

That's right. And why do you use dual channel with i7?

In simple terms, it means you use 2 or 4 sticks of RAM. i7 works better with three. You could try these:
3 x 1
3 x 2 - this would suit you best as you already have 2 sticks. Make sure they match
6 x 1
6 x 2

Also check the BIOS. I dunno about i7, but my mobo has the SW Single Processor Mode which uses just one core. Make sure all settings are right. If the problem is still not solve, flash a newer BIOS.

how do I flash the BIOS?

Alrighty, I did this. Its sitll only showing one processor.
I called ASUS and got an RMA, they said it could possibly be the board...
Hopefully it is.
If its not the board, is there any other hardware that could be the issue.
I've only been having this problem since we had a power surge randomly one day during a nice day.
Ever since the computer has been running less than full standards.

What PSU do you have? A poor one could be the reason. In that case, other components might have suffered as well. Anyway, see if all 8 are recognized after RMA. Or maybe your PSU doesn't have enough wattage.

That's strange. How could a Vista repair solve your CPU being recognized?

^ welcome to the i7!

Heh

Yeah, the i7 is amazing. I love mine, although I definitely go WAY over 14% usage fairly often. I don't often load it fully, but I am at 80% or so with some regularity.

Yeah, well, I find it hard to believe that Crysis uses just 14% of the i7. That's a little low. Shouldn't it be over 50%, especially a 920?

No. To use 50% of an i7, you need 4 threads fully loaded. 14% is a single thread, fully loaded. Therefore, Crysis is loading a single thread to full load. Something else that is optimized for multi core CPUs such as FSX would probably load it quite a bit higher.

Its not that. My Q6600 uses more than 50% across all cores and I believe Crysis is multi-threaded?

@endo Are those reading CPU usage readings or core usage readings? Could you tell what your core usages are using CoreTemp?

I suppose something could have screwed the processor driver in the OS. If it was just one core that was functioning, then it follows that Vista was running in compatibility mode. The re-install/fix OS detected the hardware properly, including the i7 and installed/repaired the driver, therefore bringing all the cores up again.

I said individual cores, possible the highest ones.