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Yes, your cores seem to go down to 2 active cores , should stay at 4 (for quad ). I am on SP1 and updated driver wise , so best to install SP1 and see as others mentioned .

Its hard to view that pic but XTU has a throttling % graph , did it ever go above 0% ? you have to enable the CPU throttling graph is it turned off by default . I just reran BM and on my system I get a sawtooth pattern running through it 100% usage with down spikes evenly placed to around 70-75% . It does not look like yours though . This is a 3570k here . You should be in mid 700's range .

with ME , maybe because you just did fresh install you already had latest one so XTU didn't install any . For me XTU did install newer ME as my Asus P8Z77v pro is about yr old or so . For me the Benchmark is very buggy . when first installed it ran fine then after few reboots sometimes it works and sometimes not, more not . I am on Win7 64bit Pro OS and always connect to the net, cable modem here.

ok, sent logs with pic of XTU too note on the XTUcore log there is a line error with divide by zero line . I didn't check timestamp with other BM line . Also of note , first time in yr when I started system I got window to connect to network even though I was connected and my mail (windows live ) was set to offline . not sure if there all connected but I mention it . A reboot and it didn't happen again . Ed

ok, I loose all my profiles doing this

1) you want the whole folder not just log folder ? It is ok to delete all the .sdf files in the "Intel Extreme Tuning Utility" folder ? 2)Your email is not displaying fully , maybe PM me it if you like (shows this only "pieter@hwb..." ).

I am getting error now with benchmarking , it did work on first day . I only ran it few times . I played a little today with clocks and figure give it a ty and get error right away as soon as you hit button (like others have mentioned) . nothing has changed and I am always on internet with no router even . I checked all services just in case but all seem running (Intel services) . You want me to send logs or you have enough already ? Edit am on win7 64bit Pro found these lines in the GUI log file 2013/10/28-19:32:15.6091|INFO] Starting benchmark process: C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Extreme Tuning Utility\Binaries\p95-bench.exe 2013/10/28-19:32:15.6791|INFO] Benchmark run completed - parsing results file 2013/10/28-19:32:15.7121|!ERR] Benchmark process completed successfully, but the results file does not exist Edit : ok it all of sudden is working now after few restarts of XTU , I didn't do anything different . Ok, this seems weird, if I have palemoon running and start XTU , BM works and then it seems I can close PM out and run BM . but if I just try XTU BM w/o web-broswer its not working . Have to test this more to make sure . Edit2 ,no its not that, its just buggy on working .

I finally installed 4.2.0.8 for 3570k/Asus P8Z77v Pro and install went fine here . It did install a updated Intel ME (9.5.10) and Intel watchdog timer (listed 2 times in programs and features ,no version #) . This installs 2 services the XTU service and watchdog one . no issues with install and the benchmarked worked right out of box(745marks) . Oh, should it save the last BM values the next time you launch XTU ? Only thing on OC is only things supported are ref bclock freq , per core multiplier and additional turbo voltage. no other power limits or memory timings (I only have core section ) , no GPU as I never installed HD driver . OC features seem to work and profiles fine too .

Ok, thanks , yes have the lot of Intel services , ME , sat driver, usb etc .

That's impressive OC on mem up one and lower CL by 2 , what voltage did it need to pull that off ? Little off topic does XTU install many added services ,as I was thinking of using it to tweak settings in windows , then once found sweet spot set bios . Instead of constant reboots to bios .