Does this mean i'm not getting 2.13ghz?

GeForce · 1 Sep 2007 at 02:01

I don't think 67C is that bad. The C2Ds run quite warm

Tjunction is the temperature at the junction between the core itself and the die it sits on. The reading CoreTemp shows as Tjunction is not really Tjunction, it's actually TjunctionMax. Ie. The max temperature that junction should be allowed to reach.

Jon

Yozz76 · 1 Sep 2007 at 02:05

GeForce said:
I don't think 67C is that bad. The C2Ds run quite warm

Tjunction is the temperature at the junction between the core itself and the die it sits on. The reading CoreTemp shows as Tjunction is not really Tjunction, it's actually TjunctionMax. Ie. The max temperature that junction should be allowed to reach.

Jon

Cheers Geforce, do you think i should call it quits at 2.4?

manic111 · 1 Sep 2007 at 02:22

67 is fine. Anything over 70 is a little much but still not terrible, I only get worried if I hit 75.

GeForce · 1 Sep 2007 at 02:26

Noooo!

In all seriousness, you can push it a bit further. When you start getting load temps around 70C then time to think about leaving it there.

What cooling do you have? Temps are quite high for stock Vcore.

Jon

Threshold · 1 Sep 2007 at 16:32

You should reach 3 ghz piece of cake on stock voltages. At least, my E6400 did anywho! I found that to increase past that required a lot more voltage and generated more heat. I'm now running 3.2 (as in sig) and 1.45vcore with temps under load on orthos of 68 degrees :eek:

I have seen others get better results but it depends how lucky you are with the chip you have.

Talrinys · 1 Sep 2007 at 16:35

GeForce said:
That disables SpeedStep in Windows. You can customise the power options in the "Always On" scheme, but it is required you use this scheme to prevent EIST running.

Similarly, it is required you use the "Minimal Power Management" scheme in Windows to enable SpeedStep.

Jon

What's the equivalent in Vista?

GeForce · 1 Sep 2007 at 17:03

Talrinys said:
What's the equivalent in Vista?

I don't know mate, sorry. I don't use Vista much.

I'm sure someone will be along soon who can help

Jon

silversurfer · 1 Sep 2007 at 22:37

Ive been to 83c with the same setup and idled at 70c

Im just going to see what happens with speedstep on @ 3.4ghz oc

edit:

Yep seems to work ok and switch back and forth according to rmclock. Ive used this manually before by asking crystalcpuid to manually lower the multipler and it will do so even with speedstep disabled in the bios

It does lower temps a bit but not much because the volts are the same, I suppose thats changable too but labelled under another feature

GeForce · 1 Sep 2007 at 23:19

I have a feeling the "voltage drop" part of EIST is controlled by enabling C1E in the BIOS. Both C1E and EIST need to be enabled in order to get the full effect of SpeedSteep (ie. volts dropping as well as multiplier).

Jon

silversurfer · 1 Sep 2007 at 23:33

Yep I enabled both but I dont see any drop in volts at idle over what it is normally. Maybe I need the voltage on auto?

GeForce · 1 Sep 2007 at 23:40

Hmm... OK. Well I suppose it's worth a try

silversurfer · 2 Sep 2007 at 00:48

It seems to play BF2 just fine, not that this is a cpu critical app but it has tripped up a lot of overclocked systems before so I declare it a sucess.

I think any voltage change would make it unstable and its late anyway so I'll leave it at that. Best way for me to reduce volts (and so heat/noise) on this board (same as op) is the pencil mod which I'll do some other day

my 3.4 goes to 2.5 when idling, really it could do with going to 1.5ghz in order to really be an effective, noticable reduction but unfortunately I dont think thats possible on the fly