I have an E8400 and haven't changed anything to it since installing it, but recently I've noticed the below oddities in terms of frequency:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...07/System2.jpg
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w..._2007/CPU2.jpg
Is this speedstep or something similar that holds back the CPU when it's not needed? Even under load on the CPU monitor it stays at 2667Mhz rather than raising to 3Ghz, but I'm not sure if this is just 1 core or both, and whether it would make any difference if it was at 3.
Would there be any gains in somehow disabling this so that it runs at 3Ghz or nothing noticable enough to really bother tinkering with? (Or eat more power?)