Vista 64 Overclocking

CharlesM

CharlesM

CharlesM

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Hi,

I bought a machine from a website. They said it came Overclocked already.

I've got an E8400 and they said they'd overclocked it to 3.6ghz.

In the welcome centre it still says 3.0ghz. Is overclocking something Windows doesn't recognise? Or has the company just not bothered overclocking it?
 
Vista interrogates the CPU, which has the model number and description hard coded into it. Try a utility such as CPU-Z instead.
 
Vista Welcome Centre asks the processor what it is - the processor tells Vista that it's an E8400 at 3GHz because that's what Intel told it to do when asked. Welcome Centre does not go and check the information supplied is correct.

To find out what is in the PC download a program called CPU-Z from here : http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Will tell you anything you could possibly want to know about the CPU, motherboard and memory in your PC.
 
Its using speedstep at the minute.. A program intel uses to clock the cpu lower when its not needed. Run a film or open loads of internet pages and have a look at it while they are loading .

Beaten to it ^^ :)
 
either way, that drops the multi not the fsb, the fsb is at 333 which is default so when its loaded it'll jump from 6x 333 to 9x 333 which is 3ghz.

Looks to me like its not clocked.
 
If it starts to run slowly then I'll think about doing it. It has tons of fans in there - I thought because it was overclocked. I'm sure I'll do it someday but it's fine as it is now - just a bit annoyed at the retailer as their service has been poor to say the least (not overclockers!)
 
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