Intel Speedstep Bad for O/C?

[Rod Moore]

I realize that this is a ball's-to-the-wall crowd around here, but I can't help but be curious as to why Intel's Speedstep technology is just about always maligned by overclockers.

Is there something about Speedstep that inherently undermines an effective overclock with Intel chips and motherboards? CnQ works fine on overclocked AMD boards so long as you don't drop the multiplier (too far) relative to FSB.

Why do overclockers insist on disabling Speedstep?

Moe

 

[Mendax]

Speedstep interferes with your manual OC attempts...

 

[BMac420]

mostly because speed step whill lower your cpu speed when its not being used as much, and for the most part the crowd here wants to be running at their OC speed ALL the time. if you keep speed step on then that kinda defeats the purpose.... i think also if its enabled you can't adjust your vCore.

 

[batboy]

If you are going for max O/C, it's probably better to disable it. For a modest O/C on a system that runs at idle a lot, then speedstep is a good thing.

 

[greenmaji]

Power saving features have a history of interfering with manual settings, but if its not harming your manual settings or holding your overclock back (choking the FSB overclock at the level you need it, disabling NB functions frees up some FSB normaly) then I don't see a problem with leaving it inabled.

 

[BMac420]

i mentioned in my post that if its enabled you can't adjust your vCore, however i know batboy and greenmaji know A WHOLE LOT more than me, is that only on particular mobo's/bios'? here are pics of my bios showing the warning i'm talking about...

http://www.ocforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54580&d=1166574465
http://www.ocforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54581&d=1166574475

 

[greenmaji]

As I said.. IF its not interfering with your manual setting on your motherbord with the bios that you are using (ok Im adding to it now here) I don't see a problem using it.

 

[batboy]

It doesn't interfere with vcore settings on my Abit. Don't know about your Asus.