Asus P6T Deluxe + I7 940 CPU ACTING WEIRD!!!

[MRBULL]

this is a verry odd situation , where Everest cpuqueen results arent the same after 5 minutes in windows.

after booting my system , most of the times , when i run CPU QUEEN i get a result of around 30,000 .. after a few minutes of testing it again i get 16,000

and it never goes any higher then this at all.. wondering if my cores are not working properly or something.

i dont have any asus utilities installed only turbo V but im not using it at the moment ..

this is what i have for now in the bios

AI overclock Tuner - Manual

RATIO - Auto

SpeedStep - Enabled

Turbo - Enabled

BLCK -170 ( CPU-Z says my ratio is at x23 witch im runing 3.9ghz right now on the i7 940 )

Dram - 1363

UCLK - Auto

Qpi link Data - Auto

Cpu V - 1.3000 ( perple color )

CPU PLL V - 1.9 ( normal )

QPI/DRAM Core V - 1.300 ( Yellow color )

Dram Bus V - 1.6V ( normal )

CPU Differential Amplitude - Auto

Cpu pread spectrum - Disabled

Pcie Spread Spectrum - Disabled

CIE - Enabled

Hardware prefetcher - Enabled

Adjacent cache line prefetch - Enabled

CPU TM Function - Disabled

Intel Virtualization tech - Disabled

Execute Bit - Enable

Intel HT Technology - Enabled

Active processor cores - ALL

A20M - Disabled

Intel SpeedStep - Enabled

Intel Turbomode - Enabled

Intel C-state Tech - Disabled.

now under everest

CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory CL-RCD-RP-RAS Score

4x Bloomfield HT 3733 MHz Unknown X58 Triple DDR3-1360 7-7-7-20 16437

16437 ... that is totally ****ed up it's like it's only using 2 core or soemthing..

i have tryed many different bios settings , even disabling most of everything , the first 2 minutes i get a decent score but it dosent stay at the 30,000 scores..

im now clueless.... i only have turbo V installed but im not using any settings.. everything else is uninstalled.

everest detects this ..

Field Value

CPU Type QuadCore Intel Bloomfield (Bloomfield / Gainestown)

CPU Platform / Stepping LGA1366 / C0/C1

CPU Clock 3740.0 MHz (original: 2933 MHz, overclock: 28%)

CPU Multiplier 22x

CPU FSB 170.0 MHz

Memory Bus 680.0 MHz

DRAM:FSB Ratio 4:1

Motherboard Chipset Intel Tylersburg X58, Intel Nehalem

Motherboard ID 65-0905-000001-00101111-112108-TYLERSBURG$A1087001_BIOS DATE: 11/21/08 16:19:56 VER: 08.00.15 / dmm: ASUSTeK Computer INC. / dmp: P6T DELUXE

cpu-z says 23x under ratios..

anyone esle having this issue? it's not only everest giving me a bad score even 3dmark vantage gives me a much much lower scrore then it used to..

 

[monkey7]

I haven't read every bit of data in your post, but I guess SpeedStep guilty. Try disabling it and see what the benchmark does then.

By the way: you have 1.9 volts going through your VTT, I heard that 1.65v is the max. safe for this voltage.

"Max. 100% safe VTT seems to be 1.65V" - core i7 101 on xtremesystems.org, have a printed version lying in front of me.

EDIT: I believe that VTT on most motherboards is PLL on the Asus boards. I'm not 100% certain about that though.

 

[MRBULL]

in Turbo V , the CPU PLL it's called cannot go lower then 1.8 ? and in bios putting it 1.9 is normal blue color , anything that is higher then it should be changes to yellow then purple then RED.. i tough 1.65 V was for Dram.. disabling speedstep didn't help , i have done that ;(

also disabling SpeedStep Grays out my Turbo option ? is that normal.

 

[monkey7]

Hmm then I guess PLL is not VTT And yes, the 1.65 limit also counts for vDimm aka Dram.

I'm really out of ideas now. I know SpeedStep is related to adjusting cpu power when in windows to save energy and in case of turbo also increase performance when needed.

 

[MRBULL]

Hmm then I guess PLL is not VTT And yes, the 1.65 limit also counts for vDimm aka Dram.

I'm really out of ideas now. I know SpeedStep is related to adjusting cpu power when in windows to save energy and in case of turbo also increase performance when needed.

CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory CL-RCD-RP-RAS Score

4x Bloomfield HT 3733 MHz Unknown X58 Triple DDR3-1360 7-7-7-20 15931

score of 15931 on everest , lowest i have ever had .. no idea what is going on with my cpu

 

[monkey7]

Just to ask a silly question of which I probably already know the answer - did you install your motherboard drivers? Everest does not recognize the motherboard. Also, try downloading the newest everest if you have not already done so.

 

[Rastalovich]

I`m immediately looking at the multiplier being AUTO, Speedstep being On and the chances Vista (or whatever) has it`s powersavings going on.

Those being rectified, then I`d see if I have an issue.

 

[MRBULL]

Yeah all dirvers and bios up to date , it's normal for everest to not identify it , and i am using latest everest, even 3dmark vantage as a low score.. and for speedstep that is disabled now , and the power saving in vista everything is set to performance multiplier at auto is just something I've tried , it was set before to 20x with 190. . anything i change in the bios it's all the same.