First post, by athlon-power
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I'm currently working on my Core2Quad build again, now that I have a cooler that can at least try to cool it when running at higher speeds. It's a Zalman 9500A LED. Anyways, I pushed my CPU up to 3.8GHz (448MHz FSB, 8.5x multiplier) and so far, the Zalman keeps it under 75c during Prime 95 load. The Arctic Freezer 7 would've had this CPU overheating at this point.
Anyways, I've ran into a snag, and that's the fact that while two of my cores are running at the 3.8GHz speed, the other two are running at roughly 2.68GHz. I have the high performance mode selected in power options, and I doubt this is a result of core parking, as it's apparently visible in Resource Monitor if you look at the CPU through there, and it doesn't mention any parked cores anywhere. Minimum CPU speed is 100% and maximum CPU speed is 100% in the advanced power management options. Double-checked it to make sure.
Full specs:
Asus P5K SE (P35 chipset)
Mushkin PC-8500 DDR2 4GB (2x2GB kit)
PNY XLR8 nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX OC
Corsair CMPSU-650TX
Western Digital Caviar GP 750GB
Lite-On DH-4O1S-08
Nothing in BIOS even mentions overclocking specific cores and leaving others alone. I'm not sure how or why this is happening, any help is greatly appreciated.
Where am I?
