Hi All, and a very Happy New Year.
I had a 2160 overclocked to 3GHz on a 965-ds3 board, which was running fine until last night, when during one of those frenzied COD games there was a checkerboard-type graphics glitch and then the system froze (never done that in COD before). When I rebooted all seemed fine, except that CPU-z, TAT and any other tool I use report the processor running at 1.8GHz, despite the BIOS still driving the chip at 3GHz. Games are slower, and C1E in the BIOS is disabled. I tried changing and resetting the settings, but without success - I'm stuck at 1.8GHz.
Is there some form of protection which would limit the chip to its standard settings, irrespective of what is put in the BIOS ? I needed a voltage of 1.45v in the BIOS to keep the thing stable when overclocked, and wonder if it is just the chips' time and it is damaged (though still seems to function OK).
Any thoughts appreciated - might be moving to quad sooner than I thought.
Wierdly, after a couple of typical "cold start" problems which used to happen with this board, all is fine and dandy again. Still don't know why the BIOS was teling me a different story to CPU-z and TAT etc..
cjph
I had a 2160 overclocked to 3GHz on a 965-ds3 board, which was running fine until last night, when during one of those frenzied COD games there was a checkerboard-type graphics glitch and then the system froze (never done that in COD before). When I rebooted all seemed fine, except that CPU-z, TAT and any other tool I use report the processor running at 1.8GHz, despite the BIOS still driving the chip at 3GHz. Games are slower, and C1E in the BIOS is disabled. I tried changing and resetting the settings, but without success - I'm stuck at 1.8GHz.
Is there some form of protection which would limit the chip to its standard settings, irrespective of what is put in the BIOS ? I needed a voltage of 1.45v in the BIOS to keep the thing stable when overclocked, and wonder if it is just the chips' time and it is damaged (though still seems to function OK).
Any thoughts appreciated - might be moving to quad sooner than I thought.
Wierdly, after a couple of typical "cold start" problems which used to happen with this board, all is fine and dandy again. Still don't know why the BIOS was teling me a different story to CPU-z and TAT etc..
cjph
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