e2180

matt99man · 28 Nov 2007 at 01:25

Well ive managed to get my system up and running finally and now im having problems clocking the bugger! I have a e2180 and GA-P31-DS3L with 2gb on geil ram. In the bios it says miltiplyer of X10, ive run cpuz and its says X6 running @ 1201ghz! whats going on here? :mad:

manic111 · 28 Nov 2007 at 01:31

Its due to Intel's Speedstep power saving feature. You can turn it off in the BIOS by disabling EIST and C1E.

matt99man · 28 Nov 2007 at 01:46

ive looked in the bios the only thing i can fond is c.i.a2 and thats already disabled???

matt99man · 28 Nov 2007 at 02:15

just found them, cheers dude

Now lets see what i can out of it!

Countcussy · 28 Nov 2007 at 09:31

No need to turn it off IMO.

Whats the point in having it running full whack whilst on the desktop. It will speed up when you need it.

People say that is affects the overclock. I have yet to encounter any problems leaving it enabled.

Spec as sig.

str · 28 Nov 2007 at 11:23

I suspect the problem when speedstep is enabled could be for example when speedstep drops the system down to a 6x multiplier it also drops the vcore (you can find out the vcore it's dropping to by using CPU-Z).

When the system is overclocked for example 333 FSB instead of 200 FSB that 6x speedstep multiplier will result in a clock speed of ~2GHz instead of 1.2GHz and the 6x speedstep vcore which runs 1.2GHz reliably might not be enough to run ~2GHz reliably.

The potential for a problem to occur definately exists but I guess it's not a concern for those who run with speedstep enabled.

Countcussy · 28 Nov 2007 at 11:27

str said:
I suspect the problem when speedstep is enabled could be for example when speedstep drops the system down to a 6x multiplier it also drops the vcore (you can find out the vcore it's dropping to by using CPU-Z).

When the system is overclocked for example 333 FSB instead of 200 FSB that 6x speedstep multiplier will result in a clock speed of ~2GHz instead of 1.2GHz and the 6x speedstep vcore which runs 1.2GHz reliably might not be enough to run ~2GHz reliably.

The potential for a problem to occur definately exists but I guess it's not a concern for those who run with speedstep enabled.

Ahh, never thought of it like that. So it could have a negative affect for the guys that go really high FSB and/or increase CPU voltage.