E8400 running at 2.8GHz

[Craig321]

Hi,

Built my friend a PC today and noticed it was running at 2.8GHz in the BIOS, we had stuff to install etc. so we ignored it for now.

When I got home I got him to run CPUZ and it says it's running at 2.8GHz.

C1E and EIST is off.

Gigabyte P45-UD3 motherboard.

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Indy500]

Gigabyte boards have a habit of defaulting to the wrong multiplier. I had the same issue with a P35 build and E6600. Just manually change it in the BIOS and reboot.

 

[Craig321]

I thought it'd be something like that, I did notice 8.5x multipler when I was in the BIOS, I see they're rated at 9x

Thanks for confirming it

 

[rypt]

Gigabyte boards have a habit of defaulting to the wrong multiplier. I had the same issue with a P35 build and E6600. Just manually change it in the BIOS and reboot.

Not only GB, my Asus P5k for some reason does not save the mult to it's "OC Setting save thing", meanign that if I restore one of the two pre-saved OC settings my mult does not change (or changes back to the default 8)

My OLD GB though didn't do that (but then again it also fried it's BIOS chip twice).

 

[Indy500]

Not only GB, my Asus P5k for some reason does not save the mult to it's "OC Setting save thing", meanign that if I restore one of the two pre-saved OC settings my mult does not change (or changes back to the default 8)

My OLD GB though didn't do that (but then again it also fried it's BIOS chip twice).

Asus motherboards have dodgy bioses though

 

[Craig321]

Sorted now, walked him through changing the multplier up to 9.0x (it was on 8.5)

 

[spookywillow]

its supposed to be 9.5 x 333 = 3.16ghz

 

[steve258]

but he has E8400

 

[Vir]

it is 9, not 9.5

 

[Craig321]

its supposed to be 9.5 x 333 = 3.16ghz

Nope, default is 9x333

 

[Vir]

BAAAN HIM FRROOM ZE FORUMS, MISLEADDDING INFO! VE VILL NOT TOLERATE IT!!11 sorry had a little german outbreak.