Nostromo21
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- Oct 15, 2013
Hey guys,
Trying to give my old PC a little lease on life before I replace it. Have tried almost everything in the BIOS (std Gigabyte upgraded to latest vF6) to get the stock 3.16GHz E8500 to run a bit faster (possibly at 400*9.5=3.8GHz, but also tried to get it to 3.5GHz to no avail). Followed several online threads & even some youtube videos (I know!) to sort it out, no cigar.
I have 4GB (2x2) of good quality Corsair PC6400 1066MHz DDR2 running in it, but it's irked my for a long time that it's was only clocked to the std 800MHz for DDR2. Sooo, I assumed if I can get the memory running at the full rated speed + the cpu with a similar increase, I'd see some noticeable performance improvements.
I've used CPU-ID, Speedfan & Orthos to check the speeds following tests, as well as keep an eye on temps, but haven't managed to get any increase.
I think I did manage to clock them down to a slower speed once.
Basically, the settings I changed in the BIOS were:
Robust Graphics Adapter: Auto
CPU Clock ratio: 9 X
Fine CPU Clock ratio: +0.5
CPU Host Freq: 400 (also tried 369)
PCI Express Freq: 100 (also Auto a number of times)
DRAM Performance:
Performance Enhance: Standard
MCH Freq Latch: Auto
System Mem Mult: tried 2.00B and 2.66D (a vid I saw said I should be using 2.00D for 400+, but I don't have that option in my bios...?)
Memory Freq: showed 800 / 1066
DRAM Timing: Auto
Timings: all Auto: 5 5 5 15
CPU Vcore: tried both Auto & 1.3V
Is the Gigabyte mobo locked or perhaps just unable to be overclocked for some reason? A couple settings I tried didn't post & the mobo rolled them back luckily, eh.
I've just left it with the memory performance enhance ootion on 'Turbo' after rolling all the other settings back, but can't see any gains in the apps mentioned above.
Any/all advice much appreciated guys. I see no reason why I can't get the memory to run at near full speed, unless the multiplier is making the cpu run too fast & it just can't cope. Not sure what other conservative values I can try safely just to prove that the mobo/bios will OC the cpu & memory any amount at all.
This was so much easier on my spare PC with an Asus P5KPL-CM & an E6700 2.6GHz (same RAM) - got that cpu running comfortably at 3.2GHz & memory over 1GHz just using a +20% performance modifier in the BIOS, too easy.
Cheers!
Trying to give my old PC a little lease on life before I replace it. Have tried almost everything in the BIOS (std Gigabyte upgraded to latest vF6) to get the stock 3.16GHz E8500 to run a bit faster (possibly at 400*9.5=3.8GHz, but also tried to get it to 3.5GHz to no avail). Followed several online threads & even some youtube videos (I know!) to sort it out, no cigar.
I have 4GB (2x2) of good quality Corsair PC6400 1066MHz DDR2 running in it, but it's irked my for a long time that it's was only clocked to the std 800MHz for DDR2. Sooo, I assumed if I can get the memory running at the full rated speed + the cpu with a similar increase, I'd see some noticeable performance improvements.
I've used CPU-ID, Speedfan & Orthos to check the speeds following tests, as well as keep an eye on temps, but haven't managed to get any increase.
I think I did manage to clock them down to a slower speed once.
Basically, the settings I changed in the BIOS were:
Robust Graphics Adapter: Auto
CPU Clock ratio: 9 X
Fine CPU Clock ratio: +0.5
CPU Host Freq: 400 (also tried 369)
PCI Express Freq: 100 (also Auto a number of times)
DRAM Performance:
Performance Enhance: Standard
MCH Freq Latch: Auto
System Mem Mult: tried 2.00B and 2.66D (a vid I saw said I should be using 2.00D for 400+, but I don't have that option in my bios...?)
Memory Freq: showed 800 / 1066
DRAM Timing: Auto
Timings: all Auto: 5 5 5 15
CPU Vcore: tried both Auto & 1.3V
Is the Gigabyte mobo locked or perhaps just unable to be overclocked for some reason? A couple settings I tried didn't post & the mobo rolled them back luckily, eh.
I've just left it with the memory performance enhance ootion on 'Turbo' after rolling all the other settings back, but can't see any gains in the apps mentioned above.
Any/all advice much appreciated guys. I see no reason why I can't get the memory to run at near full speed, unless the multiplier is making the cpu run too fast & it just can't cope. Not sure what other conservative values I can try safely just to prove that the mobo/bios will OC the cpu & memory any amount at all.
This was so much easier on my spare PC with an Asus P5KPL-CM & an E6700 2.6GHz (same RAM) - got that cpu running comfortably at 3.2GHz & memory over 1GHz just using a +20% performance modifier in the BIOS, too easy.
Cheers!