Speccy CPU reporting error

[Phaleron]

Just downloaded speccy to try it out. When it reports my CPU is shows the following:

 

CPU

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8300

Cores 2

Threads 2

Name Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8300

Code Name Penryn

Package Socket P (478)

Technology 45nm

Specification Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz

Family 6

Extended Family 6

Model 7

Extended Model 17

Stepping 6

Revision M0

Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, EM64T

Bus Speed 200.0 MHz

Rated Bus Speed 799.9 MHz

Stock Core Speed 2400 MHz

Stock Bus Speed 200 MHz

Average Temperature 36 ?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 2600.1 MHz

Multiplier x 13.0

Bus Speed 200.0 MHz

Rated Bus Speed 799.9 MHz

Temperature 35 ?C

Thread 1

APIC ID 0

Core 1

Core Speed 2500.1 MHz

Multiplier x 12.5

Bus Speed 200.0 MHz

Rated Bus Speed 799.9 MHz

Temperature 37 ?C

Thread 1

APIC ID 1

 

You will notice that Core 0 is being shown as running at 2600Mhz with a multiplier of 13x and Core 1 is being shown at 2500Mhz with a multiplier of 12.5x . At stock speeds the Intel Core 2 Dup T8300 runs at 2400Mhz. It does have the ability to boost the frequency of one core to 2500Mhz but only one core and in no way will it run at 2600Mhz. Not sure why the program is reporting this as other programs like CPU-Z do not. As such this ends my bug report.

[Fred.]

Strange...

I have a similar problem regarding CPU reporting - my Toshiba laptop (Satellite A500/02S) comes with its stock software, 1 part of which is TOSHIBA PC Health Monitor, and which also reports on CPU temperature. At the moment, the Toshiba software reports my CPU being as 45 degrees C, while Speccy reports my temperature to be a full 4-5 degrees above that, saying it is 50 degrees.

After writing this, the temperature has dropped to 38/43 degrees.

How is this so?

Cheers

-Fred