i7 Turbo - Tool to test for Turbo throttling

[unclewebb]

pangingIII: What motherboard are you using? This was mostly a DFI issue but I think some MSI boards also have this problem where the multiplier gets stuck at 12 at full load in Windows 7.

Edit: I see you have the DFI.

Run i7 Turbo to see what it reports when CPU-Z is showing the 22X multi. That might not be 100% accurate. rge and I are going to be doing some more testing in the next day or so to try to prove this one way or the other.

What is your program doing, could you explain a bit about it?

I'd rather not say.
I can't give away my secrets. I'll send you a PM.

Edit: You don't like PM messages so I'll come clean. MultiBoost changes a register within the CPU. For some unknown reason this register is getting set to 12 on the DFI boards so adjusting that one register to 21 allows your CPU to run at full speed, including its Turbo feature. A very simple patch until DFI or Windows 7 comes up with the correct fix.

I built MultiBoost into the latest version of RealTemp 3.30.
Just add this to your RealTemp.INI file.

MultiBoost=1

One less program to run that way.

The low core voltage in your screen shot shows that EIST is enabled and has lowered your core voltage which means it has also lowered your multiplier. I'm 99.99999% sure that CPU-Z is not accurate at idle.