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This is a feature in your BIOS that you must turn off. It's a protection / power saving feature Intel has provided in their chips.
Example : Your FSB is 1600 (or 400QDR), and you set your Multi at 9x in your bios, but when you use CPU-Z it shows up as 2400 at 6x Multi. If this happens to you, then ....
Turn off Speedstep / C1E / EIST in your BIOS, and this problem will disappear 99% of the time.
(While you're at it, turn off other features as well, like Virtualization if you're not using it, etc etc. Provides some cooling gain, supposedly)
AFTER you have found your stable overclock, you can turn these power savings feature back on if you wish to conserve power when your system is idle.
If it doesn't, then post your mobo, bios, cpu, voltages, temps. Everyone will be glad to help, let's just solve the most common mistake first.
Disable both C1E and Speedstep (sometimes called EIST)
Example : Your FSB is 1600 (or 400QDR), and you set your Multi at 9x in your bios, but when you use CPU-Z it shows up as 2400 at 6x Multi. If this happens to you, then ....
Turn off Speedstep / C1E / EIST in your BIOS, and this problem will disappear 99% of the time.
(While you're at it, turn off other features as well, like Virtualization if you're not using it, etc etc. Provides some cooling gain, supposedly)
AFTER you have found your stable overclock, you can turn these power savings feature back on if you wish to conserve power when your system is idle.
If it doesn't, then post your mobo, bios, cpu, voltages, temps. Everyone will be glad to help, let's just solve the most common mistake first.
Disable both C1E and Speedstep (sometimes called EIST)
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