Hey there bit-tech. Been lurking the forums for a while now, and now I "finally" have a decent reason to throw in a thread here. So, I was gonna try overclocking my CPU a little the other day, so I went into my BIOS and changed some settings and what not. First thing I changed was to up the multiplier from 8 to 9, bringing the CPU up to clock speed, 3ghz (no idea why it wasn't...). Anyway, 'tis all fine so far, my problem starts when I want to raise my frequency above this. I changed my frequency to create a mild overclock to 3.15ghz or something like that, and I quit BIOS and go boot up Windows. I check my CPU-z and Core Temp, and I notice something, the core speed says 3000mhz (stock). Before you say it, speed-step and the likes are not enabled, the reading was made during 100% load. Another strange thing I see is that the VID of the CPU is 1.35v, I've set it manually to 1.36 or so, but the voltage on CPU-z shows about 1.31v, that's also the voltage that's shown by the BIOS volt sensor. I guess a long story short is that it seems that frequency and voltage changes doesn't "stick" for some strange reason... Hope you can help EDIT D'oh, seems like my first post on here didn't turn out very well, quite obviously I managed to throw it into the wrong forum section >.< Oh well, I hope not too many people died during their facepalms...
Great little board, still got mine in another machine. Forget the CPU-Z readings you'll be fine as long as its under 1.4v
Seems like you might've misunderstood me, mate. My problem is that the readings on CPUz are either incorrect or the BIOS changes doesn't make it past the boot up process. The settings still exists in the BIOS, but they don't appear to take effect in Windows.
That doesn't really explain the fact that the clock settings seem to be off, and even if they are too just a missread on CPU-z part, I should have noticed atleast some tempreture increase, shouldn't I?
The obvious reasons are oftenly the ones you look past Though, no, I did hit "Save Changes and Exit". However, I did another some-what obvious solution this morning, clearing the CMOS. It solved the whole frequency problem, so that I can actually overclock. The voltage still seem to be a bit off, BIOS setting is at around 1.33 while the readings on CPU-z and BIOS shows around 1.280. Suppose it could be a rather big vdrop, but oh well, atleast it's working now... Thanks for your help though.
Mine usually undervolts when not underload as it drops the clock speed back. TBH i never really cared about the voltage, i always kept it under the 1.4 volts of death and it always stayed stable no matter what overclock i gave it. Some times i forgot the fsb:dram divider setting, leaving it at x5 would cause it to fall over on reboot.
