E8400 Problem

[Meloco]

Hi,

was playing Crysis earlier, and suddenly everything was very jittery and gameplay was at a halt. Restarted the computer, opened cpu-z and my now E8400@ 3.00ghz, is reading clock speeds of 2000mhz? When previously it was at 2999mhz. Is there anyway I can fix this?

 

[Meloco]

no, it's staying at the reading of 2000mhz

edit:

bus speed: 333.33mhz
rated fsb 1333.4mhz

 

[Meloco]

nope.. multiplier stays at x6.0

edit: Ah, just launched steam and it briefly went to x9.0

 

[Meloco]

switch speed step off in the bios

I looked when I first built this pc, but couldn't see it... any clues as to which part of the bios it is in?

 

[Meloco]

C1E and EIST, tho there's no real reason to disable them.

hmmm, it's a real slow down now in all applications.. Might try it off for a while.

 

[Meloco]

Well a E8400 even at 2GHz is a very very quick chip, so I would say that isn’t your problem, by all means disable speed step but you need to look elsewhere.

could it possibly be to do with the hdd?

 

[Meloco]

It could be yes, it could be running a virus scan or Vista doing a defrag etc, is it all okay after you restarted the computer? I can’t see speed step being a problem an E8400 like I say at 2GHz is quick, when system needs more power it bumps up to 3GHz.

I've restarted it after putting speedstep back on, and it seems ok now.