General E6750 warning

FluffySheep

FluffySheep

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I built myself a new E6750 rig yesterday, the important specs are:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

I booted up and it ran fast.....

Then I looked at the BIOS settings. The RAM was bang on as it should be (800MHz), but the CPU was running at 1.6GHz (200MHz FSB x 8 multiplier) instead of 333MHz x 8 (2.66GHz). I know it's not the end of the Earth, but it's something easily missed, so here's a quick heads up!

I dont think many BIOS's will be auto detecting correctly, so any buyers be ready to manually up the speed. When I did mine, it went from fast to grease lightning!

As for now, I have a mild overclock going, CPU at 2.8GHz and RAM at 840MHz with a FSB of 350MHz, and that was without any real effort, so they have plenty to give boys and girls...

Fluffy
 
FluffySheep said:
I built myself a new E6750 rig yesterday, the important specs are:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

I booted up and it ran fast.....

Then I looked at the BIOS settings. The RAM was bang on as it should be (800MHz), but the CPU was running at 1.6GHz (200MHz FSB x 8 multiplier) instead of 333MHz x 8 (2.66GHz). I know it's not the end of the Earth, but it's something easily missed, so here's a quick heads up!

I dont think many BIOS's will be auto detecting correctly, so any buyers be ready to manually up the speed. When I did mine, it went from fast to grease lightning!

As for now, I have a mild overclock going, CPU at 2.8GHz and RAM at 840MHz with a FSB of 350MHz, and that was without any real effort, so they have plenty to give boys and girls...

Fluffy
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That's not really a warning, underclocking your CPU isn't going to cause major problems,

If you booted and it was OC'd then it might

Davem
 
Nah, my point is that unless you are ready for it and know what might happen you will be missing a lot of power (40% reduction)

Yeah, a warning might be too strong, more a FYI posting then...
 
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