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Picked up an I7 920 today and both coretemp (where I first noticed it) and cpuz show me a multiplier of 21 and a freq of 2786. Not that this is a bad thing just wonder if its right

Not sure about the QPI but looks like your multi goes by the bus speed

Yeah but the i7 multi is a max of 20 or so I thought. I have done no overclocking on this due to the fact that my water block hasn't come yet and it is setup with only the stock cooler. Stock frequency is 2.66 mine is showing ~2.8

weird...my multi is at 20..but like you said..not a bad thing ..i did notice that your QPI is about 800+ mhz lower than mine stock tho (in that pic)..that and cpu-z shows 8 threads on mine and only 4 on yours....

(i didnt think to make a screen grab til after i made the post)

I have the hyperthreading disabled. I have heard it causes alot of heat so until I get the waterblock for it I disabled it. Hence the 4 cores instead of 8. As for the qpi I haven't touched it, unless its affected by the hyperthreading.

Go into the BIOS and find the "Turbo" setting and turn it off. The Turbo is giving you a mild OC with out you touching it.

yeah, welcome to turbo mode... normal!

Oh ok. Damn I was kinda hoping I got a "special" chip. Oh well.

yea i had feeling the HT was off but I wasn't gonna assume it since ya never know lol..spose I should do the same considering this thing shut down on me from the heat the other day(70C!!)

these chips shut down at 70C?! that is absurd

Unless the BIOS is programmed to shut it off at 70, then it shouldn't, I've had a core i7 920 at ~83oC on every core (stock with stock cooling) and it didn't shut down on me.

Dan

Last I checked the i7's have a TJ Max of 100c, like most of the other Intel Core family........;)

skierkid450 wrote:these chips shut down at 70C?! that is absurd

i had a few more choice words when it happened lol

DMB2000uk wrote:Unless the BIOS is programmed to shut it off at 70, then it shouldn't, I've had a core i7 920 at ~83oC on every core (stock with stock cooling) and it didn't shut down on me.

Dan

Thats what I thought too but I couldnt find it in the bios..tho i've been either tired or "out of it" when i last checked so ill check after posting this.

Oddly even after reading the motherboard manual I didn't see anything about why or if it was set up to shut down at 70..I know the bios shows the option of either showin the temp or ignoring it(doesnt say it ignores the shut down part)..thats all i found..even CoreTemp and RealTemp give readings that are all wacked out and I dont know which one to believe since the bios reports around 56C when i just checked..this is all with stock cooling and and as warm as it feels its only 55 outside here...i feel like i jacked this thread so i apologize if that feeling is goin around..was not intentional

The temps that you're seeing in CoreTemp and RealTemp are for each core and the temp in the system bios is reporting from the hardware monitoring chip on the mother board for the overall cpu. Each individual core will run hotter than what the bios reports.

ahh ok...i figured it was just readin the last core since it was more in line with the bios reading..well now..I guess i better get steppin on getting a new cooler..my room tends to get warm in the summer even with the black out drapes up..may even go water on this lil toaster