Toms Hardware Forum,
Last Night I noticed something that I'm not sure if its normal or not. I'm just seeking any opinion on the matter, here's the issue:
At first I was overclocking with Intel Speedstep ON, and TurboV ON to a multiplier of 48. It was acting normal, staying at x16 when idle and boosting to x48 when running a game or testing with prime95. 1 Day I started getting really low FPS until I restarted the game and it went back to normal, I didn't like this and I decided to take off speedstep and turboV. I also didn't like how the FPS would jump back and forth as well, and I assume this is from speedstep changing from 1.6ghz to 4.8ghz back and forth, even while the game is open.
I took off SpeedStep and TurboV but kept my other settings of x48 multiplier and 1.4 core voltage. Ram is not overclocked. When I am at my desktop with nothing open except CPU-Z, the multiplier will change constantly from x16 to x48, and it will jump back and forth between the two when the PC is doing nothing, shouldn't this be constant at x48 with speedstep off? I then ran prime95 and it would stay at x48 constant. The thing that is bugging me is this constant changing multiplier when the PC is idle, the CPU usage is moving between 0%-3%, not a biggie, but also I noticed in task manager that the first Core is spiking, not to the top but there are spikes up to about the 30-40% mark, only on the first core. You can see them on the other cores as well but they are really low like 1-5%, and all the HT threads are completely flat.
Is this something that is normal? Do you suggest different settings, for example a friend of mine with a i7 950 has speedstep enabled but turbo off.
The only thing I could think of is that my PSU isn't up to par with the rest of the rig. And maybe the cpu isn't getting enough power to stay at 4.8ghz constant? It's only an Ultra 600w that I elected not to upgrade due to fund issues. I am only using a 4pin connector to the motherboard that has a 8pin cpu power connector.
Rest:
i7 2600k - Noctua NH-D14
Asus p8p67 deluxe
8gb Corsair Dominator 1600mhz
2x ATI 4850 Crossfire
Thanks in advance for any comments.
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