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I enabled the CPU throttling on the graph and I also enabled the Active Core Counts and I run run the bench. Look at my active core count it keeps bouncing never stays at 4, I seen it go down to 3,2 and even 1 during the bench that's not normal right?

 

My temps are good and the CPU is not throttling.

 

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 .

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Hi all,

 

I've had my Asus ROG Hero and 4770k for a few months now and everything has been running great, but I've decided to install the Intel Extreme tuning Utility and try it out. My final score is 572 and that's running pretty much everything on Auto except a few things. So CPU is running at 3.5GHZ turbo pusing it to 3.9GHZ and my Ram is running at stock speeds using the XMP profile at 2400mhz.

 

What I've notice is that the CPU Utilization keeps bouncing around from 100% to 40% over and over again and my temps are not higher then 59C so it's not a temperature issue but it looks like the CPU is throttling down for some reason. Look at my attachment and specifically the blue line which is the CPU Utilization it's going up and down like a yo-yo.

 

I went into the BIOS and even disable SpeedStep and Intel adaptive thermal monitor and I get the same results...

 

Can anybody help me out? I am just wondering if it's normal for the CPU utilization to bounce like that or should it be 1000% for the whole benchmark?

 

thanks in advance.

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 .

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Interesting find here:

 

Installed fresh Win7 OS on Z77 UP7 platform with LAN enabled. Then installed, rebooted and ran the 4.1 version. Followed by the 2.08 one, rebooted and it works straight out of the box. No Intel nor MEI drivers installed... nor any updates or long hookup to the internet...

 

The same OS we could not get to work on Z87, no matter how hard we tried , no matter how many updates or time it was connected to the internet... weird

 

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.

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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

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ok, I loose all my profiles doing this

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That is an error I have not seen yet, interesting. Could you send me a screenshot of the error, as well as the two log files?

 

To get the log files:

 

- folder: C:\ProgramData\Intel\Intel Extreme Tuning Utility

- delete all

- open XTU, when you get the error zip the folder and mail it to me

 

Mail: pieter@hwb...

 

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..." ).

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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 .

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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 .

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Not that I'm aware of. XTU installs the XTU Service (surprise!), and then requires the services other OC tools require as well. For example MEI driver.

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

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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 .