Asrock z68 extreme4 bios hang

paradisiac said:
not on stock cooler, thats still in the box :p but mine isnt man enough for the 2500k, managed the athlon x3 fine, but this is a jump too far.

just reinstalled windows.................again, so will try different apps and see what volts it shows.
im guessing you set bios to 1.3v fixed? so it doesnt drop even when speedstep kicks in?

from everything i have read bios always reads slightly higher than in windows.
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yep i set it 1.3v fixed.

I managed to disable speedstep by disabling the options in cpu configuration called c3 span or something lol
 
Faztastic said:
yep i set it 1.3v fixed.

I managed to disable speedstep by disabling the options in cpu configuration called c3 span or something lol
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dont really want to disable speedstep myself as 90% of the time the pc is used for films or internet, no need wasting power.
i saw you can set it as offset or something, but whats the starting volts to know what to offset it against :confused:
 
well i disabled the auto oc, and just uppded the multi to 44, it now seems to be using 1.2-1.25v instead of 1.3-1.36v (according to ASRocks utility).
will grab some others and do a prime test, but hopefully this will let me get to atleast 4.6GHz until the new cooler comes.
 
paradisiac said:
well i disabled the auto oc, and just uppded the multi to 44, it now seems to be using 1.2-1.25v instead of 1.3-1.36v (according to ASRocks utility).
will grab some others and do a prime test, but hopefully this will let me get to atleast 4.6GHz until the new cooler comes.
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Thanks for updates, ill get back to this later today.
 
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Auto OC 4.4GHz (only way i could get it to stop using turbo :confused: )
Vcore 1.250v
CPU LLC Level 1
DRAM 1.5v
 
KelDG said:
Please don't disable speed step, there really is no point. Its like sitting at a red light revving the ******** of your car.
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The power difference between it being on and off is a mere 20W and for that 20W saving you get speedstep and noticable lag as the cpu throttles up and down. Not worth it in my opinion - best be fully charged rather than laggy
 
Subliminal Aura said:
The power difference between it being on and off is a mere 20W and for that 20W saving you get speedstep and noticable lag as the cpu throttles up and down. Not worth it in my opinion - best be fully charged rather than laggy
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There is no lag when throttling down, that makes no sense, the processor is slowing down.

There is a 10ns delay (0.00000001 of a second) when C1e (speedstep engaged) cranks its self back up to C0 (full power). This time is inconceivable to you and pales into comparison against the seek time of your harddrive trying to execute whatever it is you are running.

In other words the CPU will be up and running full power well in advance of the program, and by that :-

You click your program
0.00000001 seconds later your CPU is up to speed
0.0005 seconds is the seek time of a fast mechanical hard drive
0.00001 seconds is the seek time of an average ssd


Hope this helps
 
So it takes a split second to crank throw all the multipliers and get up to full speed ?

That's the theory, I'm just giving you my experiences with it. Tried on several builds and the lag is noticeable when going from idle and opening up an app. The lag disappears with C1 disabled ... Anyone else noticed this or is it just me ?
 
Subliminal Aura said:
So it takes a split second to crank throw all the multipliers and get up to full speed ?

That's the theory, I'm just giving you my experiences with it. Tried on several builds and the lag is noticeable when going from idle and opening up an app. The lag disappears with C1 disabled ... Anyone else noticed this or is it just me ?
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Are you running windows XP on these machines? I had noticed more and more stuttering problems with newer hardware when using windows XP, this stopped with a change to windows 7. Maybe that is contributing to the problem?
 
Okay i am stable at 4.4ghz with 1.31v

i can go higher but the voltages start to go strange.

if i choose 4.8ghz i set in bios the volts to be 1.37v load windows go into hw monitor or cpu-z it says im at 1.48v i was like O.O

i quickly turned computer off and put it back at 4.4ghz whenever i try to add higher volts in bios... it just doesnt give the volts i am asking it and thus is too risky, can someone help me? im not worried about temps as i have noctua nh-d14 and a good case with 7 fans for airflow.
 
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Faztastic said:
Okay i am stable at 4.4ghz with 1.31v

i can go higher but the voltages start to go strange.

if i choose 4.8ghz i set in bios the volts to be 1.37v load windows go into hw monitor or cpu-z it says im at 1.48v i was like O.O

i quickly turned computer off and put it back at 4.4ghz whenever i try to add higher volts in bios... it just doesnt give the volts i am asking it and thus is too risky, can someone help me? im not worried about temps as i have noctua nh-d14 and a good case with 7 fans for airflow.
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i set the cpu LLC to level 1(asrock is backwards to all other companies, low nmber means max) and this kept mt cpu-z volts to within 0.010 of the bios vcore setting and it stopped it fluctuating.
 
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