My CPU doesn't show up correctly?

[pmccoy]

Hi, so I was putting an Intel Xeon E3-1290 v2 into my system to run some comparison benchmarks.

So, it boots into windows no problem, the bios and certain programs(CPUZ, Geekbench) identified it correctly.

However, Settings>System>About identified it as a i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz instead of the Xeon. And Cinebench R20 identified it as the Xeon E3-1290 v2, but had it showing up as 3.4Ghz instead of 3.7Ghz.

Finally, Geekbench said the benchmark was invalid because of timing issues? I'm not really sure what the issue is here. I didn't change anything about the system except swapping out the processor(from i7-3770 to Xeon E3-1290 v2).

For further info, the mobo is a MSI H61-P23 (B3) and I'm running 16GB of DDR3-1600 non ecc memory.

[unclewebb]

You might have to reinstall Windows for it to report your CPU correctly but I would not bother doing that.

 

CPU-Z is correct. The data in its Specification box is read directly from the CPU. If it shows you have a Xeon processor in that box then you really do have a Xeon processor.

 

Double check the Cores and Threads. CPU-Z should show 4 Cores and 8 Threads. If there is a problem, go into msconfig, on the Boot tab, Advanced Options, clear the Number of processors box and restart your computer so Windows can figuring things out.

[pmccoy]

I'll definitely try that tomorrow.  What really confused me was that different programs told me different things.

The bios and cpuz detect it correctly as a Xeon and show it running @3.7Ghz, however its windows itself that identifies it as a i7. Cinebench identifies it as a Xeon, but at @3.4Ghz instead of @3.7(Still 4C/8T), and Geekbench identifies it correctly when I start it, but after the test concludes it says the timing is wrong and so the test is invalid.

So I have different programs telling me different things, and I'm not sure what the issue is and I'm unable to really ascertain if it's running as it should be or not.