I think something is wrong somewhere with something.
I just built this computer and have not been in the bios yet, though have flashed it to F7
This is with the stock cooler too. I think the E6600 is supposed to run at 2.6Ghz isnt it. i have Gigabyte EP45-DS3 motherboard and think maby look through bios for config or something. Any advice on fiddling with CPU frequencies?
Regarding the clock speed, here's a quote of an answer I gave to the same question in a different thread:
The Coolest wrote:This is perfectly normal. This is just EIST or C1E (depends which one you have enabled in the BIOS) in action.
This is a power saving feature of the CPU, which drops clock speed and voltage to save power when idle.
The old versions of Core Temp didn't detect CPU clock on the fly, so that's a reason why it was always constant in previous versions.
Now the temps look too low, what is you ambient temperature?
Thanks for the reply. i also found that the clock speed in the bios was 2.13Ghz, and whenever load was placed on the cpu it went to 2130 ish Mhz. I went to load optomised settings in BIOS and it set to 2.4Ghz and coretemp reports 2400 mhz under load now.
According to the random clock thingy i found laying around, the room temperature is 15 Celsius, and from this post, core #0 at 15 Celsius and core #1 at 20 Celsius (at 0% load)
It was winter and the room felt quite cold. Now its summer and my temps are idle at 24/28. I will post the room temperature when i get a better thermomiter.
