hey,

i just bought a new PC... and i see my e8400 3ghz (stock cooling) is displaying only as 2ghz in cpu-z (latest version), whenever I run a program or do a benchmark it jumps up 2.66.

can anyone explain that? it says the same in my BIOS...2.66ghz. multiplyer is also 6x... during a benchmark it jumps to 8x.. where it should be at 9x.

I ran another benchmark that gave me the speeds/results of an e8200. =/

if anyone can help that would be great.

thanks !

PS. i did have a power saving utility installed that came with the motherboard, yet ive just uninstalled that and there's no change.

Read the 'sticky'. Your system has 'Speedstep' enabled in BIOS. It's fine.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] multiplier

sounds like a case where a gorilla thinks like its a chimp.

you mean its jumps to 2.66 @ full load?

Beautiful !

I disabled c1e (couldnt find EIST) and changed multi from x8 to 9 and im finding a very nice improvement in my cpu performance... it's gone from 2.66 to 3ghz.

thanks a lot =)