e8400 reporting lower clock speed

[janitor53]

Hi everyone, just installed a gigabyte ex38-dq6 motherboard and an e8400 cpu. I ran intel's ID and it's showing both of my cores running at 2.33 ghz instead of the expected 3.0 ghz. Any ideas out there?

 

[DarkScythe]

Is Speedstep disabled? That's one of the most common issues.

 

[janitor53]

looks like the clock ratio was at 7, I just switched her up to 9.
thanks for the help!

 

[Seb1]

If SpeedStep and C1E are enabled in BIOS, the CPU's multiplier and voltage will be reduced during idle status and reverted back during load - those are energy saving features, usually don't hurt anyone, disable them only if you have OC problems.

 

[Warriorprophet]

Though mine drops from 9x to 6x for c1e state, so 7x is probably a bios setting like he said.

 

[Mithent]

Yes, I believe that pretty much all Intel desktops drop to 6x? Kinda wish they had multiple levels and would go lower, like laptops.