As you can see from my sig, the components in my PC are a couple of years old now. I have been trying to squeeze a bit more out of them before throwing in the towel and buying new gear. After some searching on these forums and reviews I have tried upping the FSB (CPU freq in BIOS) to 400 with a mult of 9 (to give 3.6Ghz) and set the voltage management to manual and changed the vcore to 1.32, which seemed to be conservative and easily obtainable according to loads of posts. Also set the memory to 2x to leave them at 800Mhz.
On saving and exiting the BIOS, the PC seems to start to reboot, then shutdown before restarting. I assumed as it posted and loaded into win 7 all was good but a check with CPUID showed the FSB still at 333 (CPU running at stock 3.16Ghz) and the only thing that had altered was the vcore. When changing the FSB, the BIOS messaged to set the v's to auto to optimize them - this resulted in a vcore of 1.42, which seems a bit high and made no difference to the CPU speed as before! After several attempts and checking the user manual I gave up and set BIOS back to normal.
Have I missed something obvious in the BIOS or am I being a little hopeful that I can get 3.6Ghz out of a nearly 2 year old chip?
PC spec: E8500 C2D, GA-EP31-D3SL, 4Gb Kingston XMS2 800 Mhz, Gelid Tranquillo cooler, FSP 600W PSU, Silverstone PS05B case.
On saving and exiting the BIOS, the PC seems to start to reboot, then shutdown before restarting. I assumed as it posted and loaded into win 7 all was good but a check with CPUID showed the FSB still at 333 (CPU running at stock 3.16Ghz) and the only thing that had altered was the vcore. When changing the FSB, the BIOS messaged to set the v's to auto to optimize them - this resulted in a vcore of 1.42, which seems a bit high and made no difference to the CPU speed as before! After several attempts and checking the user manual I gave up and set BIOS back to normal.
Have I missed something obvious in the BIOS or am I being a little hopeful that I can get 3.6Ghz out of a nearly 2 year old chip?
PC spec: E8500 C2D, GA-EP31-D3SL, 4Gb Kingston XMS2 800 Mhz, Gelid Tranquillo cooler, FSP 600W PSU, Silverstone PS05B case.
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