i7 Turbo - Tool to test for Turbo throttling

[unclewebb]

You can add Asus P6T Deluxe V2 0504 to the wall of shame.

I'd be happy to. Your motherboard has been added. At least now when people contact Asus to fix this issue they can point them to this thread.

HWMonitor will interfere with the timers that RealTemp and i7 Turbo use to calculate the multiplier so I'd recommend not running that program or anything else while testing. I'm not sure of how other programs will effect your results. RealTemp and i7 Turbo get along fine together.

What are your core temps up to when TCase is reading 68C?

The more information that documents this problem that you can post here the better. I'm not sure if Turbo throttling based on TCase temps is motherboard or Intel related. Upload some screen shots at www.imageshack.us and post the links here.

Edit: Here's what the Intel Turbo White Paper says.

1.2 Dependencies / Algorithm
Intel® Turbo Boost technology core frequency upside availability is ultimately constrained by power delivery limits, but within those constraints, it is limited by the following factors:

• The estimated current consumption of the processor
• The estimated power consumption of the processor
• The temperature of the processor
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So it looks like temperature does play a direct part in this. I've read elsewhere that a core temperature in the high 80C range can also trigger Turbo throttling.