Tech Talk Gods:

I'm running an AMD 4400+ Toledo dual core processor, with AI Booster to check on my temps (no overclocking is being done), with settings on auto. Lately I've noticed something strange: my processor reading occasionally jumps to either 1900 MHz or 2480 MHz erratically, and I have no idea why. It doesn't do it all the time, it usually hangs out at 2200 - 2215 or so. The temperature doesn't fluctuate or anything, and my CPU and chipset fan aren't even being powered or monitored by the motherboard. It does this at extremely low load (just Trillian, Firefox, Openoffice running).

Is it possible that AI booster is just acting crackheaded and giving me the wrong readings? I have had no other problems with the CPU that I know of, everything seems to be performing fine. I'm just concerned about the MHz jumping around occasionally.

Any advice is appreciated.

If it matters:

4400+ Toledo
Asus A8N-E mobo
2 gigs Kingston DDR400 RAM in Dual Channel
SATA2 HD
Zalman flower on CPU

3/29/2006 11:41:55 PM

is cool n quiet turned on ? that lowers the mulitiplier on the fly to make the cpu cool n quiet.

3/30/2006 1:13:36 AM

Nah, I don't think it's running...

In the meantime, I stopped AiBooster and got nTune. Logged the bus speeds for everything and it's rock solid. I think AiBooster was doing that adjusting crap and making the speeds erratic. Now it's stable.

I'm just curious why it started doing it in the first place, just recently. I didn't think it did it before...

3/30/2006 1:45:42 AM

It's an issue with either the newer ASUS bioses or the AI Booster software itself. I see the same thing with my overclocked 3500+. I've not seen a fix, but I've not had any negitive issues either. I'd just ignore it if it's not hurting anything.

3/30/2006 1:47:23 AM

I wish i didn't hate asus so much

3/30/2006 9:20:01 AM