Confused noob - does Everest / Cpu-Z get it wrong?

[RostokMcSpoons]

Giga P35C DS3R / E2180 / Geil 2gb - overclocking - help a noob

edit: Thread was "Confused noob - does Everest / Cpu-Z get it wrong?"

I've just overclocked my new E2180 / P35C DS3R / Geil 2gb ultra cas4 ... first figures I bunged in are:

fsb 400, multi 8 = 3200mhz
pci 100
vcore 1.3875
vdimm 2.1

this runs Super Pi and a short cycle of Orthos (stressCpu), so it's a good start - which is great cos when I tried to oc my old A64 I couldn't budge it even by 1mhz!

I re-ran Super Pi 1m, and the time has dropped from 37s to 19s (yay!)

The weird thing is Everest is telling me this:

Field Value
CPU Properties
CPU Type Unknown
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz
CPUID Revision 000006FDh

CPU Speed
CPU Clock 4003.09 MHz (original: 2000 MHz, overclock: 100%)
CPU Multiplier 16.0x
CPU FSB 250.19 MHz

Does Everest often screw up?

And CpuZ reports the right figures, but only when running Super Pi, otherwise they're low... I presume that's SpeedStep doing it's stuff?


While I've got your attention...
Temps have risen from 33/45 (at stock) to 37/60 (cooling is Zal9500 @ 90%, and a crapola case with 1 80mm fan ... case temp is 38)
Does that sound ok? I'm going to push a little more if it is
And my mem is reported as running at 5;5;5;18 .. is it worth dragging them down again?

 

[RJC]

When idle Intels speedstep reduces the multiplier, when stressed the multiplier goes back up.

Temps are not too bad, I would keep it around the 60 - 65c mark as max, is any way of adding any more fans or increasing the 80mm fan.

Rob

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Right,

I've run various parts of the Orthos tests and found my system wasn't stable.... in Orthos at least - it played TF2 for several hours just fine! (Does that mean I shouldn't even worry? It's not like I'm doing anything but playing games on this pc)

In an effort to make it stable (and faster) I've fiddled with the settings for a bit... tried various multipliers and FSB speeds, underclocked the ram etc... occasionally I'd suffer Windows aborting during boot, but I've only had one actual reboot inside windows.

The only thing that seems to have fixed the stability is upping the vcore to 1.45v, with 10x320, 2.5 ram multiplier
My temps are much higher consequently (40 idle / 70 load, on Small FFT's, 64 on StressCpu) than they were, but Orthos seems happier

Is there anything specific I should try, (70c seems to be recommended as the temp ceiling, doesn't it?) or is that a decent result, and I should just rest on my laurels?