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BCLK Question

You've overclocked the Base Clock from 100MHz to 100.5MHz so the processor, RAM and everything else connected to the Base Clock have been overclocked 0.5%.

Perhaps that's enough to push the CPU Windows Experience Index (I assume that's what you're referring to) from 7.7 to 7.8.
 
Bunyan said:
Yeah. Is that a safe increase though? I hear the base clock should not be moved much on the Sandybridge systems.
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It's fine.

The general rule is to leave it alone and just overclock the processor using the multiplier.

A 0.5% increase in the Base Clock isn't going to do any harm though.
 
It shouldn't as you can't strap the memory and pci frequencies, so as mentioned above raising the base clock on sandy bridge will raise the speed of the system memory as well as the PCIe lanes (it may raise other things too).

The only time you should ever consider base clock raising on sandy bridge is when you want the highest possible clock speed for a quick bench, for example you may see allot of people using 104x54 to get a bench clock of 5.6ghz.

Also don't trust WEI to judge how fast your machine is, for CPU it generally won't go to 7.9 for what ever reason, even on an 5.2ghz clocked 8 thread chip it will sit at 7.8. Perhaps 7.9 is reserved for highly clocked 12/16 thread chips...who knows.


Edit: and as surveyor said, a small increase isn't going to do much at all, afaik the 'safest' max anyone has used is 107, but still if you can, avoid it.
 
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