what has intel done?

nm, that's weird

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so you wouldn't complain if your cpu at stock speed that was sold to you as a dual core 3ghz was actuall a 3.0ghz and a 2.8 ghz?

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You think that's rare? many prescotts throttle stock, inside a hot case, very unlike a reviewers station wide open, now you got two!!! It's true they should have advertised it: Intel Pentium D 830 up to 3ghz processor, sometimes® but it's not "faulty" it's a "feature".

Get better cooling should fix most issue's at stock speeds.. Thermalright XP90, Xp 120 with a high throw, high pressure, 32mm wide fan like panaflo H series will fix you right up.:)

Overclocking like that? And really want to stress and use both cores at that true speed ~3.7Ghz? better get phase.

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Originally Posted by Zebo

You think that's rare? many prescotts throttle stock, inside a hot case, very unlike a reviewers station wide open, now you got two!!! It's true they should have advertised it: Intel Pentium D 830 up to 3ghz processor, sometimes® but it's not "faulty" it's a "feature".

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you are incorrect, obviously you have not read the entire thread and do not know the architecture of the cpu, if you think that is a feature and it is normal.

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Originally Posted by Zebo

Get better cooling should fix most issue's at stock speeds.. Thermalright XP90, Xp 120 with a high throw, high pressure, 32mm wide fan like panaflo H series will fix you right up.:)

Overclocking like that? And really want to stress and use both cores at that true speed ~3.7Ghz? better get phase.

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Ok so I should get some air cooling cause you said so, because it would be better then my water cooling I am using now? Oh so I should now get phase cooling cause my watercooling keeping it at 48c fully loaded is not good enough for you?
I think you need to do little more research.
:slapass:

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Originally Posted by fordf250

Cornel

I am still confused.The screeshot shows core one under load in task manager and core 1 at 15x then the second screen shows core 2 under load in task manager but you are still showing core 1 on cpu-z and as it is not under load it is at idle of 14x.looks right to me.

I think you need to run 4 apps to get full load.There is also a rumor that windows xp might not have good support for dual core.

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That would be a ok explanation, but how do you explain all the benchmarks showing core 2 being slower at everything then core 1? You can't even begin to tell me that prime 95 and super pi are not fully loading the cores up.

Load up Sisoft Sandra...it'll tell you want the Minimum and Maximum multiplier of the chip is.;)

The results should be the same for each core. 15x Maximum and 14x Minimum. If not, I'd say there there is definitely an issue with the chip.

My $0.02...;)

My cpuz gives me the same readings with a 830D.

Now the odd things are .. if i put 2 folding clients on it, the readings in all programs give me 2x3ghz, snm, throtlewatch,didn't tried anything else. Throtlewatch, if i stpo one it reads the correct 2800 on one and the one that is on load 3000. If i load both clients it reads both at 3000.

Cpuz never gives me the second at 3ghz. Maybe its a problem with this program. I Tried superpi and the diference is 1sec, i dont consider that very significant.

Anyone got any more sugestions of programs to check the speeds?

I've managed to put the right clock spees in cpuz and every other aplications ... just run systool and go to the Intel Enhanced Speedstep tag and click on 15x and write ..

I think this may be a bios related problem. I'm using 0408.

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Originally Posted by SlimySquid

That would be a ok explanation, but how do you explain all the benchmarks showing core 2 being slower at everything then core 1? You can't even begin to tell me that prime 95 and super pi are not fully loading the cores up.

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It does sound like a BIOS issue to me as well. It's as if you have EIST enabled even when you disabled it in the BIOS. Geesh, something is wrong and it should show two 15X processors unless at idle or very light loads. Compare single thread performance to a 2.8 or lower.

Donnie27

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Originally Posted by IvanAndreevich

Email theinquirer, they like to put up stories which show Intel in negative light :)

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rofl