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PS. Core voltage reads out on CPU-Z says 2.004 V. normal? isn't that... a lot? at least from what i always see from other people talking/posting online, but thats not looking to be a problem too anyway, is it? Thanks again!

many thanks to all for the insights! cleared a lot of the uncertainty. you guys think it's just a fluke of the board/cpu match huh? Lenovo - any program wont seem to push it past 90% too, yes - i wonder if its a similar problem? Beowulff - yeah it's actually not that much of an issue i realize. I haven't checked gpu utilization yet but fairly dated games run pretty decently on the thing (tried Borderlands 2) with the 750 Ti, altho i think it is bottlenecked as i get a good additional ~8fps with a tweak up of the host frequency thing in bios. still a consistent 40+ fps anyway so if theres nothing that can be done about it, then I'm happy keeping it like this. cos it looks like my old board cant do anything to tweak cpu voltages in the bios? the monitor being used is just at 768p 60Hz too anyway, so i guess this isn't too bad; and ok yeah, I'll probably try to fill another 4gb stick of ram in it to help out crazy use of chrome tabs. Many, many thanks for the sanity check and the ideas! Cheers

Greetings to everyone! I recently upgraded an old computer's cpu to a q9650 (lga 775) to breathe some more life out of the system for my little sibling to use. The issue I think I'm having is the fact that no matter what I do, in Task Manager during games, benchmark apps (I used prime95), or probably anything I could try for that matter - my cpu never shows in the graphs to be using 100% utilization. It only pegs at 90% max - was never able to make it go past even at stock, right out-of-the-box, default clocks/settings with the CPU. I'm hoping it's not an unlucky, bad CPU. Things I've tried (which have not solved it): - disable all power savings related options in the bios - tried adjusting fsb for slight overclock - reset to default bios settings - ThrottleStop program (BD PROCHOT fix?? no idea how that works) I've read in places online that if utilization never reaches 100%, i have a power issue and so I thought maybe my 450 Watt psu is the problem but I'm not so sure because I've been using it for 3 years without a problem with the old cpu (e5800), but who knows. Would appreciate any help! Many thanks in advance. Parts in the system: Motherboard: Intel DP43BF Desktop board CPU: Q9650 GPU: Palit StormX Dual 750 Ti One (1) HDD (a 1TB Firecuda) 2 Case Fans CPU Heatsink: CoolerMaster T20 Optical Drive PSU: 80+ FSP Hexa+ 450 I attached a screenshot of task manager showing 89-90% usage while running prime95. Really wondering what else I can do about this