Hey everyone I just wanted to say a big hello to everyone on the board. Your answers have been a great help to me. I really appreciat all of your expertise.
Here's my question or rather an interesting observation I made.
I'm building a system for a friend of mine with GA-890FXA-UD5 and a 1075T. I'm using a Hyper 212+ for the HSF. The case is a HAF 912. I'm using G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB DDR3 DDR3-1333 for the system memory.
What I noticed today was when I went into the M.I.T(overclocking portion in the Gigabyte Bios) in my bios I was able to change my CPU Clock Ratio to 17.5x where it was normally at 15x. This bumped my speed up to 3.5GHz rather than 3 GHz which was the same as my Turbo, so I just turned it off.
I am currently running Bios F3. When I updated to Gigabyte's newest bios (F5) the option was gone and I could only get to 15x for the CPU Multiplier. I downgraded my bios back to F3 just to make sure I wasn't crazy and sure enough there was my option for 17.5.
My question is should I just stick with the F3 bios and get an easy OC to 3.5GHz? At this point I have Turbo disabled since it's not going any higher than 3.5GHz.
My friend isn't a huge fan of OCing, but if I can do this little tweak and pretty much have it run in turbo all of the time I'm sure he'll be fine with it. He just doesn't want me to do anything with uping the VCore and I'm fine with that. The idea is to have a 24/7 stable machine.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks in advance!
Here's my question or rather an interesting observation I made.
I'm building a system for a friend of mine with GA-890FXA-UD5 and a 1075T. I'm using a Hyper 212+ for the HSF. The case is a HAF 912. I'm using G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB DDR3 DDR3-1333 for the system memory.
What I noticed today was when I went into the M.I.T(overclocking portion in the Gigabyte Bios) in my bios I was able to change my CPU Clock Ratio to 17.5x where it was normally at 15x. This bumped my speed up to 3.5GHz rather than 3 GHz which was the same as my Turbo, so I just turned it off.
I am currently running Bios F3. When I updated to Gigabyte's newest bios (F5) the option was gone and I could only get to 15x for the CPU Multiplier. I downgraded my bios back to F3 just to make sure I wasn't crazy and sure enough there was my option for 17.5.
My question is should I just stick with the F3 bios and get an easy OC to 3.5GHz? At this point I have Turbo disabled since it's not going any higher than 3.5GHz.
My friend isn't a huge fan of OCing, but if I can do this little tweak and pretty much have it run in turbo all of the time I'm sure he'll be fine with it. He just doesn't want me to do anything with uping the VCore and I'm fine with that. The idea is to have a 24/7 stable machine.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks in advance!