Did I fry one of my cores?

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GibsonLA

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Hardware Info
Procesor: i7-930
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 7200rpm 640gb
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58
OS: Currently installed - Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit

So I started overclocking my processor. Finally got a stable setting at 3.6 but after I got done testing everything I noticed that in realtemp its now only reporting the temperature for 3 cores as opposed to when it originally reported temps for all 4 cores..


Please assuage my fears and tell me I didn't fry a core or something . . . . Picture below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45734039@N05/4544497838/
 
Never seen that before. Shut it down, reset bios and pray.

BTW, your temps and voltages look ok. What were you pushing when things went wrong?
 
GibsonLA said:
Excuse my ignorance but how do I check it in task manager?
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Open task manager, in the Performance tab do you see 3/4/6/8 graphs in the CPU usage section?

Is this a fresh install? Did you make any changes to the start-up files? Windows has a setting which limits the number of cores. I set mine manually for some reason on my Q6600 so when I upgraded to i7 I only saw 4 cores with HT on. Can't remember what I set, but it is not something that will change unless someone sets it manually.
 
It shows 8 graphs, and yes it's a fresh install, and no I did not change any of the start up files
 
If your seeing 8 graphs then it is not a Windows OS issue.

Do all 8 graphs show activity? If so then maybe there is something wrong with the temp sensors? Try another program.
 
Run something to load all 8 threads. Intel Burn Test or prime95 are good choices.

Then look at the graphs. My bet is the sensor is stuck.
 
drescherjm said:
Run something to load all 8 threads. Intel Burn Test or prime95 are good choices.

Then look at the graphs. My bet is the sensor is stuck.
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If you have the option you might want to return the CPU.

Did you mean 4 or 8 of the graphs had activity?
 
you could also use CoreTemp to measure temps, guessing it was a bug in RealTemps code
 
Run RealTemp.exe

You ran RealTempGT.exe

I see the same thing in the GT.

Your CPU is not broken.
 
You ran the wrong executable. I'm not sure what realtempGT.exe is for, but it's never right. :p Realtemp.exe works fine.
 
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