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Re: [OT?] overclocking question

From	Cat22 <oops@invalid.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: [OT?] overclocking question
Date	2011-09-21 20:11 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed 9/21/2011 3:35 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Cat22<oops@invalid.org>  writes:
>
>> I have a sandy bridge unit, intel dp67bg board and i7-2600k cpu.In
>> bios i set the automatic overclocking item to 3.6Ghz.the bios shows
>> its at 3.6 ok when i reboot into setup but in linux i cant find any
>> evidence that its running at anything above the rated 3.4GHz. does
>> anyone have any experience with this board/cpu combo? If so can you
>> help me figure out if i am actually overclocked or not, and if not
>> why?
>
> Could the 3.6GHz figure be referring a "turbo" mode allowing one core to
> run faster than "nominal" rate while the others are idle?  This is a
> feature present in some Intel chips.
>
maybe. I run all 7 threads at 100 % (seti@home) so i was kinda hoping to 
boost the clock some to get more work done
But i regularly read of people clocking over 4GHz, so if thts the case 
there ought to be a way to see that its really true.
Thanks
Cat22

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[OT?] overclocking question Cat22 <oops@invalid.org> - 2011-09-21 14:31 -0700
  Re: [OT?] overclocking question Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2011-09-21 23:35 +0100
    Re: [OT?] overclocking question Cat22 <oops@invalid.org> - 2011-09-21 20:11 -0700
      Re: [OT?] overclocking question Cat 22 <cat22@invalid.org> - 2011-09-21 20:46 -0700

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