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Garandorf · ‎09-28-2014

Hey everyone, I got this mobo and Processor on thursday and I can't seem to get the CPU to work properly, I'm getting trash results on any Benchmark software I use. I've tried setting the BIOS to optimal defaults and also using the AI Suite 3 Optimiser, I get nearly the same results with both.
Is the CPU faulty? Or am I missing something?
http://puu.sh/bRDmM/923888c073.png

UltraNEO_ · ‎09-28-2014

Newer CPU's have Intel Speed-step technologies, this means the CPU frequency is reduced when there's nothing for it to do, it's a power-saving feature. Try making the system run some benchmarking software, put it under load, the CPU frequency should increase as the load increases. Try running Valley.

Garandorf · ‎09-28-2014

It doesn't work any better when trying to run a game like WoW or Benchamrking software like Catzilla, Cinema 4D or RealBench 2.2, I'll try with Unigine Valley as well, please check the screenshot I posted

Unigine Valley Benchmark: http://puu.sh/bRMWN/5b77bf4213.jpg

Okay, did an Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, got this: http://puu.sh/bRNTa/6bad015dae.png

Looking in the official Intel forums, someone with the exact same issue as me came up and got this answer: http://puu.sh/bRNWc/0b4cc779b4.png

Apparently, just a faulty CPU...

UltraNEO_ · ‎09-28-2014

You're not really giving me much information to go on here, other than the clock speed being lower than expected. Is it slow, chopping, unstable, crashing? What?

How about a full list of components? What version of the BIOS are you running? etc, etc...

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