Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
sorry to hear you are getting next to no feedback, judging by this thread I'd think you would get tons of it
A 143 page novel I've got going here and here I am b-i-t-c-h-ing about not enough feedback.

Thanks jcool and thanks Movieman for coming to my rescue. Your data shows me exactly where I was going wrong before in my understanding of cores and threads for the new 16 threaded beasts. My old scraps of Pentium 4 documentation has been misleading me.

wutsup: hey uncle webb i tried the starting and sotpping of prime 95 smallftts and you said the 1st 2 cores were suppose to throtlle down first right? for me all the cores seem the throttle down at the same tme
The word LOG or HOT in the Thermal Status area of RealTemp will show you exactly when thermal throttling has started. I have never seen a Q6600 show thermal throttling on all 4 cores at the exact same time so can you post a screen shot of that. If you are using my calibration recommendation then the temperatures might all be reporting the same thing now but core 2 and core 3 won't start throttling until they are 5C hotter than core 0 and core 1.

I'm pretty sure that Intel uses a similar 5C offset between core 0 and core 3 on their Core i7 CPUs for the same reason but that's another story.