briesmith

I am not certain I've ever had a Heisenberg system. I thought processors worked at a speed determined by the clock crystal and I hadn't appreciated they are load sensitive. My interest has been piqued by this becasue if the processors only work at the quoted speed some of the time and only in certain circumstances then what exactly are we buying/being sold?

Is this a flip chip processor? Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Code Name Wolfdale Package Socket 775 LGA Technology 45nm Specification Intel? Core?2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz Family 6 Extended Family 6 Model 7 Extended Model 17 Stepping A Revision R0 Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, Intel 64

Speccy reports the following Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Code Name Wolfdale Package Socket 775 LGA Technology 45nm Specification Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz Family 6 Extended Family 6 Model 7 Extended Model 17 Stepping A Revision R0 Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, Intel 64 Virtualization Unsupported Hyperthreading Not supported Fan Speed 1997 RPM Bus Speed 266.0 MHz Rated Bus Speed 1064.1 MHz Stock Core Speed 2933 MHz Stock Bus Speed 266 MHz Average Temperature 39 ?C Caches L1 Data Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes L1 Instructions Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes L2 Unified Cache Size 3072 KBytes Core 0 Core Speed 1596.1 MHz Multiplier x 6.0 Bus Speed 266.0 MHz Rated Bus Speed 1064.1 MHz Temperature 39 ?C Thread 1 APIC ID 0 Core 1 Core Speed 2926.3 MHz Multiplier x 6.0 Bus Speed 266.0 MHz Rated Bus Speed 1064.1 MHz Temperature 39 ?C Thread 1 APIC ID 1 Which is puzzling (to me anyway) as I thought both cores ran at the same speed. All comments gratefully received.