A Little Worried

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

Just a little worried, my Quad while under use or idle for that matter doesn't show more than 2 cores working, I use the sidebar gadget for 4 cores, the other two are aways at zero! Is this normal because the proggies don't yet utilize all cores or is it a glitch? If so, what proggie is best used to monitor core usage across all 4? Thanks.

Shiggity · Mar 5, 2008

Prime95 and Orthos will put the smack down on all 4 cores, same with a seti or Folding@Home client.

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

Shiggity said:
Prime95 and Orthos will put the smack down on all 4 cores, same with a seti or Folding@Home client.

That's what worries me, I was using prime, but my sidebar gadget only showed core 1 & 2 at 100% and core 3 & 4 at 0%

Shiggity · Mar 5, 2008

Saihossoku said:
That's what worries me, I was using prime, but my sidebar gadget only showed core 1 & 2 at 100% and core 3 & 4 at 0%

Does the windows performance utility show the CPU doing 100% when you run prime95?

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

Shiggity said:
Does the windows performance utility show the CPU doing 100% when you run prime95?

Yes it does, I noticed at boot up it says: COUNT: 4, I'm assuming that's 4 cores? Also, CPU-Z where it says "Selection", it's greyed out and the other items on the right of that say:

Cores: 2 Threads: 2 ??????? I'm sooo lost.

Oh not that I'm complaining, but I upped the FSB to 400 and a multiplier of 8 or 9 can't remember, what ever the calculation is to get to 3.6GHz, I reached that on air stable for 24 hours now with Prime, that's not the weird thing, I didn't change ANYTHING else in the BIOS! Nothing, just those 2 settings, my idle temp using speedfan is 25C - 28C and my load temps are around 43C - 46C, is that normal? Seems really good to me. Imay be able to push this badboy further? I could have gotten lucky perhaps?

EchoTheDolphin · Mar 5, 2008

3.6 Ghz on air with stock volts? Hmm, I've never kept volts on auto when clocking so it may be that your board upped the volts automatically and that you have an extra flat chip, heatsink base, and spread your thermal compound extra well.

Check CPUZ and see what your volts are.

Craxbax · Mar 5, 2008

Are you using Prime v25.6?
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Prime-V_program_19638.html

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

1.352v, I think it might have upped the voltage?? Is that safe though? And yes, I spread the paste really well on both the chip and the heatsink.

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

Craxbax said:
Are you using Prime v25.6?
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Prime-V_program_19638.html

Yes I am, runing it as I type this, going on 28 hours now no errors! Temps holding at 45C.

EchoTheDolphin · Mar 5, 2008

It looks like it did up the voltage automatically, but for some reason those temps look a bit low, even with that nice zalman.

What are you using to measure temps?

moto211 · Mar 5, 2008

you got really lucky. I'm on my second quad and still haven't been able to hit 3.6 with less than 1.52v

on the temp note, i use coretemp or HWMonitor (you can get it at the same website as CPU-z) to monitor the temps of each core. "CPU Temp" that a lot of monitoring software shows doesn't mean squatand is often much lower than the internal core temps. What you need to know is that each core is staying below 65 or 70c (depending on how long you want your chip to last). For example, when my cores are at 65-70c, my CPU temp is at 45-50c. I run 24/7 at 3.2-3.4 (I don't like my core temps to break the low 60's).

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

EchoTheDolphin said:
It looks like it did up the voltage automatically, but for some reason those temps look a bit low, even with that nice zalman.

What are you using to measure temps?

I'm using speedfan 4.33, let me install snagit if you guys need a screen shot?

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

moto211 said:
you got really lucky. I'm on my second quad and still haven't been able to hit 3.6 with less than 1.52v

That's what I'm thinking, a friend of mine hit 3.8GHz can't remember, but he had 6 of these go through his store and none went passed 3.4GHz, hmm, he did smile and say I owe him one, maybe he saved me one from the same batch?

Shiggity · Mar 5, 2008

Try coretemp too, it's one of the best temp programs.

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

Shiggity said:
Try coretemp too, it's one of the best temp programs.

Going to get that now, here's a screeshot, you can see my temps well below 50C as well as the core monitor in my sidebar.

Saihossoku · Mar 5, 2008

I had to use the h@ck to get it to work but in any event coretemp also shows the exact same temps!

jason4207 · Mar 5, 2008

You're only loading 2 cores, and only 2 cores are showing up in CPU-Z. That explains your low temps, but you effectively only have an e6850 right now.

I'm not sure how they do it, but some folks disable cores for benching purposes. Maybe you have inadvertently done the same. Double-check all your BIOS settings to ensure you haven't screwed something up.

OnDborder · Mar 5, 2008

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/ACPI_1043400.rar
Maybe try this?
Or one of the other acpi's dloads. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/

Sizmo · Mar 5, 2008

oh man! 45c on a quad w/ that kind of OC?! dang! Im running an e6750 at 3ghz right now (burning it in, in stages) And w/ a scythe Mugen im getting 46-47c under load according to speedfan. Although my ambient temperature is probably quite warm.

This cooler wasnt the best but the Zalman i wanted wouldnt fit due to my heatpipe. Somehow the Mugen Monster seemed to just squeeze in though! so i'll take it!

(CPU Heatsinks are getting out of hand!)

jason4207 · Mar 5, 2008

Sizmo said:
oh man! 45c on a quad w/ that kind of OC?! dang! Im running an e6750 at 3ghz right now (burning it in, in stages) And w/ a scythe Mugen im getting 46-47c under load according to speedfan. Although my ambient temperature is probably quite warm.

This cooler wasnt the best but the Zalman i wanted wouldnt fit due to my heatpipe. Somehow the Mugen Monster seemed to just squeeze in though! so i'll take it!

(CPU Heatsinks are getting out of hand!)

Read my post above. He's only loading 2 cores, so his results are not indicative of this HS's performance w/ quad-core CPU's.

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