i7 Help

Recently I bought my first rig and everything is awesome, until yesterday, I finally downloaded realtemp and coretemp.Ran a Prime95 test and 60 C was the highest it got under 97.5 load(this is good, right)O.K. after that I noticed the reading beside where it saids Core i7 920 was changing anywhere from 2.5 ghz to 1.5 ghz. Because when I first installed it, I thought I saw where it was constant 2.67 or maybe I didnt.Now my load is reading 0.1 to 7.1 or so. Is this normal?

i7 920

XCLIO WT

Zalman 9900

6G OCZ Gold

WD 640G HD

850 PSU Corsair

GigabyteEX 58 UD4P

GTX 285

Recently I bought my first rig and everything is awesome, until yesterday, I finally downloaded realtemp and coretemp.Ran a Prime95 test and 60 C was the highest it got under 97.5 load(this is good, right)O.K. after that I noticed the reading beside where it saids Core i7 920 was changing anywhere from 2.5 ghz to 1.5 ghz. Because when I first installed it, I thought I saw where it was constant 2.67 or maybe I didnt.Now my load is reading 0.1 to 7.1 or so. Is this normal?

i7 920

XCLIO WT

Zalman 9900

6G OCZ Gold

WD 640G HD

850 PSU Corsair

GigabyteEX 58 UD4P

GTX 285

BOONE123

OK but if its not running at 2.67 and changing all the time, does that not decrease performance by not running at that speed

OK but if its not running at 2.67 and changing all the time, does that not decrease performance by not running at that speed

BOONE123

its not, when idle it is staying around 1.5 and constant. (133.24 x 12)But like i said will this not make it run at what is required for the selected program and decrease performance?BOONE123

Go into the power options in you control panel. Change it from power saver to high performance. This will bump you cpu up to it's full operating freq.

Do realize on power saver, you CPU will reduce it's freq. as long as it's not required. Running applications such as games does bring it up to full power. CPU-Z will reflect what ever the cpu is doing at the time.