RTK said:
One final question/statement - Why are you fixated on what the idle frequency is? You do realize that no "real" computing is being done when the computer is at idle. Whether or not this happens at 2.67 or 1.2 is irrelevant. If the processor is not being utilized it will draw less power.
yeah that kinda make sense, i didn't know that. i thought that it would draw a lot of power with higher frequency. the reason i cared is because i've got lots of machines connected to one outlet, and most of them are usually idle, so i thought frequency matters
and on the bios thing, yes i did run the optimize defaults lots of times and even update to f11 (and the macos hard drive is been disconnected for more than 2 days now, so it has nothing to do with mac)
it is funny what happens with this multiplier thing
when i set the defaults, the multiplier gets set to 15 and the cpu switches between 1.2 2.0 ghz
when i set the multiplier to 20 cpu freq is constant
i even tried disconnecting power and take out mobo battery but no change
i was gonna go back to f7 bios to see if i gets back to normal but now that u said:
"if doesn't perform it doesn't draw" i am thinking of overclocking it
btw is there a way to actually measure the number of watts being drawn... like something i can buy off newegg