Cores not fully loaded under test?

[Mikzand]

Hi all

Does anyone know why the cpu cores (Q6600) never get fylly loaded under performance test? According to PC wizard core activity is in between 45 - 93 % during performance test v6.1.

THX

Mikzand

[David (PassMark)]

Only the CPU test will fully load the CPUs. Other tests like the disk and CD test will hardly touch a quad core CPU.

And even for the CPU test there is a pause between the tests. So the average overall will be lower than 100%.

To see them maxed out. Go to the Edit / preferences window and increase the test duration. Then you will see longer periods of max activity, during the CPU test.

[MasterX]

This is also beacuse the Q6600 is two dual cores stuck on a insulator, there is not enough frontside bus for all 4 of them to max out either!

you will be able to probably get usage of about:
99 - 99 - 80 - 50 aproximatly

the FSB is the bottleneck, the only way to open it up is to OC the FSB and knock down the multiplier a tad or 2, that way when you oc your not overloading it even more!