Multiplyer issues with new Q6600

I finished building my new setup this morning and have been trying to configure it most of midday. However now that I'm beggining to overclock I am left a little baffled...



I've been in the BIOS several times to change the Vcore beyond that in the image (up to 1.27) and the multiplyer I've tried everything between 6 and 9 but there is no change what so ever in what CPU-Z registers. I've the following setup:

Q6600 Quad Core
Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard
4 x OCuk DDR2 PC2-8500 1MB RAM

Any troubleshooting suggestions?

You need to turn off intelspeed step (EIST) in your bios.

Done that now and tried restarting a few times to see if it stuck in the BIOS, which it thankfully did. Unfortunatly theres still no change in any of the readings. There was a brief half a second where it read the x9 multiplyer, but it returned to x6 and wont budge

Amidar said:

You need to turn off intelspeed step (EIST) in your bios.

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also C1E

That did it! Thanks Amidar and mk17, Going to toggle the figures a bit and see how oc'ed I can get this. >(=)

you should also consider bumping the bios to v11 - adds a boost to memory stability, among other things.

fwiw, though I have the same board and cpu, I leave these speedstep settings enabled during daily use.
I prefer the board to drop the multi during idle conditions - not everyone likes this approach, and leave ss disabled all the time. Its up to yourself really.

meh, most people complain of instability and unable to get the best clocks with the speedstep stuff still enabled. but so far all i've seen is a few mhz difference in stability. with speed step enabled i could still clock my Q6600 B3 all the way to 3.9Ghz in windows no stability, 3.7ish completely stable without a silly voltage(3.8Ghz with way to much juice stable), which drops down the speed, and therefore power a little bit. though to be honest, i think voltage doesn't drop down on most/all boards when you are above default clocks, which is where the main power saving would come from.

its still quite stupid that you can't control cpu speed/voltage in far more steps, safely, and from windows by now. or automatically. wasting 60W idle on a cpu that could happily run along at 10W while idle is pretty bad in so far as being enviromentally friendly. then do i really need all 4 cores kicked back up to 3.7Ghz to surf the net, or watch some video. It should work at say 25/50/75/100 % power states, and less voltage in each stage depending on if you need the speed. oh well.

if you're running at stock anyway you really should leave speedstep enabled and all the other bits because you should see it drop its power load a semi decent amount, and theres no reason not to, it will just waste a little less power all the time its idle, nothing wrong with that.