hey, guys. Found something very strange with my ix38 and q6600. I have never been able to get my q6600 over 3.4ghz. That's regardless of multiplier or FSB or memory timings... period, i just can't. I attribute this mostly to beiong a relative noob with OCing. However, Speed fan has always shown cores 2 and 3 at abnormally low temperatures. they are roughly 10C cooler cores 0 and 1 which are the correct temperature (roughly 10-13C hotter than socket temp or tJunction or whatever it's called). reading the sensors directly with crystal cpu confirms the temps as actual.

Now I could never figure this out for some reason. Just now I was looking at cpu-z and it shows my corespeed at 3006mhz (9x334). I didn't realize i could look at the individual cores until today so i checked em out and 0&1 show 3006mhz BUT 2&4 show 2004mhz (6x334)! C1E and EIST are both disabled! this would explain the variation in core temps if two are stuck on a 6x multiplier.

WTF?! has anyone heard of this? I have run most of the beta BIOS and this has always been the case. Is CPUZ wrong? Speedfan would seem to support cpuz as those two cores indeed run cooler... Anything I should try? am I missing something in BIOS? HELF! ... and thanks