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GlasgowHero · 10 Jun 2009 at 12:17

I'm having trouble overclocking on a gigabyte ga-8n-sli mobo. In the bios there's a setting - MIT. I was wondering - this is my first time overclocking so please excuse any noob questions. The mobo reads a max fsb of 1066 does that mean I can't overclock my q6700 as it sits at 1066MHz already. When I put it past 266MHz it switches between x6 and x10 in CPu z read puts

Cob · 10 Jun 2009 at 15:24

1066/266mhz is just the starting point.

And it's bouncing between x6 and x10 in CPU-Z because of the SpeedStep power-saving mode.

GlasgowHero · 10 Jun 2009 at 15:30

Thanks cob - okay, I'll look into speed step - is it a good idea to turn it off?

I'll continue pushing it up and post how I get on.

Thanks again.

T

binaryknight · 10 Jun 2009 at 15:38

GlasgowHero said:
Thanks cob - okay, I'll look into speed step - is it a good idea to turn it off?

I'll continue pushing it up and post how I get on.

Thanks again.

T

people generally turn it off for finding a stable over clock then back on providing it doesnt interfer with the overclock

when enabled depending on the voltage / multi etc speedstep may make the idle setting unstable as with a higher fsb the cpu will still be running at a higher than normal speed and with the voltage also being lowered then instability may creep in, only real way is to test!

other reason to disable it may be for benchmark runs

GlasgowHero · 10 Jun 2009 at 19:37

yas. stable 3ghz oc. Thanks for the help. Still have speedstep running, cant quite figure out how to turn it off.

Should i push this overclock further? I'm upgrading to a gtx 275 shortly and had read from other posts that my q6700 at 2.4ghz would act as a bottleneck unless I oc'd it.

Thanks again for the help - this is maybe the third time i've posted on the forums and each time i've had a great response.

Cheers,

T

PaulyD · 10 Jun 2009 at 21:40

Yep keep on pushing it mate, if you haven't yet you will start needing to increase the volts.

Have you stress tested the 3ghz overclock to prove its stable?

A quick test is Intel burn test or IBT for short.
A longer test is running Prime95 for 8 hours. Small FFT's will stress the CPU mostly