Quote Originally Posted by 003 View Post
It definitely should not drop below 20 if you have it set to 21, if it is, that is either a reporting error or you have something else going on, possibly EIST, C1E, C-State or CPU TM Function. unclewebb already said there were a few issues with i7 turbo such as the high multiplier reporting.
Is there any other mobo that doesn't affect by this multiplier throttling crap? may be time to ditch this thing...