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I can confirm this issue too. 6.1.2.11 works well but I did notice that 6.2.0.17 did finally start reporting "Active Core Count" correctly. When using the last several versions of XTU--going back many months--XTU would only report 2 active cores when I would bench or stress my 6700K (with HT on). Turning HT off would get XTU to report 4...

Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay. Dealing with a new platform takes some getting used to. Given work and play, coming up with some new overclocks has taken some time... Before I get into it, let me just say: I really appreciate everyone's help here. When you take a noob question, combined with the fact it was posted in the wrong section, you have to be impressed with the membership here in this thread. Maybe my other hobbies, which of course lead me to plenty of other forums far from here, have conditioned me to get used to arrogant, unhelpful clowns so you can color me pleasantly surprised here. That said, we may be able to mark this thread as "solved." I really think it came down to memory sub-timings. Maybe this thread can help other noobs that are wondering why their skylake isn't scoring as high. Granted I've come to find that my CPU lost--miserably--the silicon lottery (CPU-wise, I'm pretty much settled at 4.6Ghz @ 1.376v and LLC level 2... 4.7Ghz wants close to the Intel-recommended max voltage), I've at least been able to post this: Intel Core i7-6700K CPU @ 4590.0MHz - 1445 XTU marks on HWBOT I guess what my original question came down to is, "Is something wrong??" I think that, unequivocally, the answer is a "no." Crappy processor, maybe. I did, however, buy the best RAM I could find. I mean, c'mon, the XMP was rated at 3200 @ 14-14-14-34-2T. Granted that's the conservative mfgr's ratings, I dare you to find anything with a better Mhz/CAS ratio (okay okay, there's probably some RAM out there that's better). Again, though, comparing apples-to-apples numbers (kind of), I'm still not seeing some of the numbers other folks are. But such is life. I can't bench press my own weight either. Tl;Dr: No real hardware issues; memory sub-timings very important on Skylake. And, definitely appreciate the helpful folks here on HWBot.

Just loaded the 32-bit version of Win10 Pro. Not much change. Thanks, Alan, for the suggestion to increase mem speed. The fact remains, though, that compared to people with the same specs, I'm at least 200 points below. At this point, unless something is fouled up pretty bad, I have to assume that Leeghoofd is right: my memory sub-timings suck. Unless a user self-reports these numbers, I have no way of knowing what they're using. And that could certainly be the missing piece. I am using the XMP profile that came with my RAM... FWIW...

Thanks bud, just saw some info regarding 32-bit OS. I'll look into the memory timings.

Hi everyone. New 6700k build here and finally got things up and running. I hate to have to come here and ask such a noobish and silly question but--and maybe my expectations are out of whack--my XTU benchmarks seem much lower than what I'm finding for similar specs and components. It's not clear to me yet whether I won the silicon lottery with this chip (I'm leaning towards an emphatic "no") but, regardless... At 4.5Ghz and RAM at 3200Mhz with timings of 14-14-14-34-2T, I'm barely hitting 1350. I've seen folks posting well over 1500 with similar specs. I did a new install of Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit and the only thing I noticed about a lot of those scores is that the users were on Windows 10. Ok, so just upgraded. No change. I'm stumped. I'm not sure what other settings I could have missed that actually affect CPU performance. C-states? I disabled that in the BIOS. Any help would be hugely appreciated. Not sure I would've dropped money on this had I known this would be the case. Just came from a silicon lottery 3770k that ran on 4.9Ghz... EDIT: Sorry, just realized this should probably go in the benchmarking category.