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I’m looking to over-clock but nothing major as I want to keep power consumption down to run a very quiet system. Therefore I’m interested in the Dynamic Vcore that some Gigbayte BIOS’s support. Do all the GB boards support this feature now or only the more expensive ones? I don’t need the features of the more expensive boards so I’m looking at the GA-P55-US3L.
The other alternative is an Asus P7P55D as that seems to support VCore offset which is the same feature under a different name.
But according to notes for recent Asus P55 BIOSs they are disabling EIST & C1E even for mild over-clocks. The note below was for the P7P55D Deluxe but appeared also for two other P55 boards that I looked at:
‘Disable EIST and CIE functions if BCLK is higher than 150MHz’ - Version 0711, 2009/09/30.
With EIST & C1E disabled with BCLK over 150 I wonder if the VCore offset will still work. Anyone had experience of this?
I’ll be using an i5-750 with Turbo Boost enabled as I’ll be limited to about 3.3 to 3.5 GHz with 4 cores loaded due to cooling constraints (noise) so I want to be able to hit about 3.8 to 4GHz with 1 or 2 cores loaded.
The other alternative is an Asus P7P55D as that seems to support VCore offset which is the same feature under a different name.
But according to notes for recent Asus P55 BIOSs they are disabling EIST & C1E even for mild over-clocks. The note below was for the P7P55D Deluxe but appeared also for two other P55 boards that I looked at:
‘Disable EIST and CIE functions if BCLK is higher than 150MHz’ - Version 0711, 2009/09/30.
With EIST & C1E disabled with BCLK over 150 I wonder if the VCore offset will still work. Anyone had experience of this?
I’ll be using an i5-750 with Turbo Boost enabled as I’ll be limited to about 3.3 to 3.5 GHz with 4 cores loaded due to cooling constraints (noise) so I want to be able to hit about 3.8 to 4GHz with 1 or 2 cores loaded.
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