How to see if turbo boost is working on I7 860 CPU?

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Published on 2009-11-28T09:00:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 6:33 UTC
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I just build myself a new system with a Intel I7 860 CPU. When loading it using a single threaded application like Super PI, CPU-Z shows 2.933Ghz as speed. Now I understood that the I7 goes into turbo boost mode up to 3.46GHz for a single core.

How can I check that? Is there a utility to monitor CPU speed per core?

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