EIST, as I said, is disabled in bios. Minimum processor state, though, does appear.
The multiplier at idle with present settings stays at 21. The only time I see it change is when I am stressing the system - I see the momentary drop to 20 on one thread only. It lasts for only about a fourth of a second and reoccurs only every several seconds. Probably not worthy of concern - just makes me curious. I only got on this when I noticed that EIST is checked in i7 Turbo.
To restate, if I enable EIST it drops the multiplier at idle to twelve but when disabled it stays at 21 except briefly to 20 under 100% load. Turbo can be enabled with EIST disabled on this board.
Thanks again