We dont care about your idle, put your CPU to 100 percent load and tell us what the load temp is. Try Aida64 stability test. gl
Just remembered you have a 870 too. Those chips run hot, 80c is common, 75 is warm.
lol so good
edit: I knew I remembered you: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=35524992
I love your threads
I remember it being clean.OK wait. I can't find a site to get this Core Temp app free of sneakies, i.e., InstalIlQ.
http://alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
I understand and respect freewares have to have some way of supporting themselves, but there are some with add ons/toolbars, etc. you can decline during installation, and others who sneak in stuff like above.
But I want this thing, so, maybe I will just go ahead anyhow.
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Edit: K, I think I was able to decline the add ons. But sometimes u think you have, and then, there they are anyhow. No biggie, if things I do not want snuck in, I will find a way of getting rid of them.()
I remember it being clean.
If you want lower temps, speedfan can max your fans to 100%, but it is loud and wears out the fans. Just letting you know.
As it turned out, it kinda was. Clean. I just hadda make sure I declined the add ons. but at least, it listened. Not all freewares with add ons do.
Thanks for this!
Your ninja edit makes me look stupid. You edited before I quoted apparently, and I didn't notice.
Same thing as clock AFAIK. The 870 is not an unlocked model though so you will need to overclock through the FSB, which overclocks ram too I think. It also means you will not be able to hit as hight clocks as usual, I think 4.0 is achievable though. The first gen core i series had soldered IHS so overclocks should stay a bit more stable temp wise.NEW CONFUSION. I don wanna make a new thread re this, plus, someone here encouraged me to overclock my Lynnfield, and discussion on overclocking progressed from there.....but I am trying to break my addiction to running thermal monitoring apps, so I just ran CPUZ instead. (It's progress, it is!:sneaky
And suddenly, I see my "core speed" is listed at 3588. WUT? So I tried to delve online to understand how core speed is related to clock speed.....and I found nuthin.
What is core speed?
Same thing as clock AFAIK. The 870 is not an unlocked model though so you will need to overclock through the FSB, which overclocks ram too I think. It also means you will not be able to hit as hight clocks as usual, I think 4.0 is achievable though. The first gen core i series had soldered IHS so overclocks should stay a bit more stable temp wise.
Small threadjack; anyone know of an unlocked bios I could flash to my OEM dell mobo? I don't know the brand, but I could check soon.
It's intel turbo boost. It auto overclocks itself when it needs to, perfectly fine.OK. Here's what I am now not getting having seen what I put up. All along, this chip was identified as i7 870 2.93.
Suddenly, if core speed is same as clock speed as u suggest--- and if so they should call it one thing---I see much higher numbers! Can U get why I am now confused?
Plus I don wanna overclock anything. U think the original owner overclocked my chip?????
It allows you to overclock, mine does not allow it. I think mine has a logo on it.Re yr OEM Dell mobo, can you elaborate??? And, I do not know what an unlocked bios is. What is it?
When this system arrived and I hooked it up, first, I went to both Dell and Intel and updated drivers and flashed the bios to the early 2013 version which was available, cause the one I had was outdated.
And, if you mean checking on if the Dell mobo in question is made for Dell by Intel or ASUS, cause they are either one or the other, you will never find out even using the part number. Cause I have tried.
O! OK, now.....just IN THIS VERY THREAD, after delving, I learned about the reality of Turboboost versus manual overclocking via the best tutorial ever written. And the former can not even come close to the latter: manual overclocking.
But more important, re the screenie I put up.....when I ran that app, the system was at idle.....so, why would Turboboost even have opened one eye? Much less raised the speed to what I see?
Now, I also now see "multiplier" at 27. And, if I get what that is, it seems to be at the top of the scale. Is it? And if, so, how did it get there? I did not fiddle with any of this! U think the original owner did? U think it is fiddled with????
Re yr Dell mobo.....is this an actual computer? Or a spare board?
Forget cavalier humans who do not know specifics, and s,o who diss Dell mobos (and all things Dell), their boards are generally excellent. One or two exceptions, i.e., the Opti 755, I believe.
You don't have anything to worry about; My workstation runs about 88C running Povray and handbrake at once on 12 cores... one of the nice things to come from Ivy Xeons was all-turbo that works.
The 870 was/is a hell of a CPU; IMO up there with the i7-920 and Q6600.
Cpus are very rarely truly idle, even the os kicks it to boost. 27 is the max multiplier because it is a locked CPU.Helper people? PLEASE, someone who understand this weigh in, cause I have new paranoia that the original owner of this system overclocked it!!!
Why else would this core speed thingy show up so high at idle in PU-Z????? How else can it be explained?????
Given what I recently learned via dense tutorial, no way could it be just Turboboost. Maybe, under load, but at idle??????
COULD IT???
Cpus are very rarely truly idle, even the os kicks it to boost. 27 is the max multiplier because it is a locked CPU.
From your screenshots, it looks like you're running Win 7. If so, be sure to get the Core Temp sidebar gadget. The program runs in the background, and the gadget shows you CPU usage, temps per core, and other useful information. I have it running all the time, and it uses very little screen real estate.