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Core i7 3770k not working on chinese motherboard Machinist B75 Pro U5

I have a Chinese manufactured motherboard Machinist B75 Pro U5. According to the manual (very hard to find by the way, didn't comes in the box): "Supports Intel Core i3/i5/i7 2th or 3th ...
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How to set PROCHOT to 100°C on Dell G15?

In the Alienware Command Center program I have multiple thermal profiles that I can choose from. They are: Quiet Cool Balanced Performance The PROCHOT value is different across these profiles. With &...
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Can the i7-11800H clock to 5.0GHZ?

The Intel specifications for the i7-11800h processer says that the max turbo frequency is 4.6GHZ. In the bios under the overview section, it says: maximum clock speed: 5.0GHZ When I first saw it, I ...
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Undervolting CPU Core vs CPU Cache

From what I have seen on Youtube videos and from what I have read on the Internet, the undervolt value of the CPU core and CPU cache should be the same. My CPU is i7-11800h. After running several ...
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A query on P and E cores of the new Intel Processors

Intel, last year came up with this idea of 2 types of cores within the same die, power cores and efficiency cores. My question is how does the difference translate to some of the VM, containers and ...
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Why are some of my CPU cores running only at a fraction of their factory frequency and some even above?

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I have an Intel Core i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40 GHz nominal frequency. Please have a look at this CPUID HWMonitor output: Cores #1, #3, #4 are running at only ...
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Intel 10th Gen Core i7 stuck at 0.79Ghz and I applied a fix that works, but I don’t understand why this needs to be done?

4 months ago I sent my ASUS ROG Strix to ASUS for repair. The main reason was the CPU running at 0.79Ghz. Since then I have gotten my laptop back and it worked fine, it also worked fine with Windows ...
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Would I really notice the difference between 6 and 8 cores on an Intel Core i7?

I am looking to buy a reasonably high end laptop. This is proving to be extremely difficult because of a worldwide shortage of GeForce RTX 3060 and 3070 graphic cards. I am a coder, and my prime ...
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bad performance of my CPU

i have a intel i7 7500U CPU who have a maximum speed of 2,7 GHz but some day it suddenly start outperforming with everything (literaly), so my computer becomes unusable so i decide to change mi ...
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Intel CPU CONSTANTLY Throttled to Lowest Frequency - Ubuntu 20.04

I am at my wits end here and could use some additional input. Long story short (more detail below), my system keeps throttling the CPU speed and I am unable to recover until I am able to unplug the ...
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maximum RAM capacity DX58SO + i7 920 only 8Gb

I have a i7 920 cpu on a DX58SO motherboard. Reading the specs of these, I concluded that the maximum RAM capacity should be 16 Gb. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37147/intel-...
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Why has my computer's performance decreased after installing a significantly better CPU, and how do I fix it?

Earlier today, I replaced my computer's i3 8100 with an i7 9700k. The computer wouldn't start until I updated BIOS so I did, to the latest version. Now my computer actually works, but my performance ...
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Coreinfo - difference between the PREFETCHW and 3DNOW

After reading the about 3DNOW instruction set extension, I found that prefetchw is one of 3DNOW's instructions.   I wanted to know if my CPU supports the instruction PREFETCHW, I ran coreinfo and got ...
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Does the fps fall due to sudden clock-speed fall or the gpu is the reason behind this?

My laptop has intel i7 8500u with base freq of 1.8 Ghz and turbo boost upto 4 Ghz.While playing different games suddenly the fps fall tremendously and the laptop itself starts running slowly not only ...
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i7 7700 processor showing only 4 cores and No of threads per core is 1

I am a ubuntu user, when I type lscpu I got it as Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 ...
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