How do I tell if I'm O/C'd

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 20:51

Further to my previous posts regarding unsually slow boot up on my new system. I have done a clean install of windows 7 on a freshly formatted sata drive. My mew MBGigabyte Z68 and i5 CPS are taking over 5 minutes to boot up with only a anti virus and a cad program installed. My old Q6600 only too 2:40 seconds. I'm thinking that somehow I've messed up the overclock, all i did was install Windows then insert the gigabyte CD and press install all to install the drivers.

How can i tell if I'm O/C'd , obviously i'm a newb at this.

Orcvader · 12 Jul 2012 at 20:58

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

Run that while running this, so it runs on the overclock speeds instead of idle speeds: http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

The overclock shouldn't be affecting boot times, CPU speeds hardly affects it overall actually. It's mostly the HDD that bottlenecks it. What motherboard and harddrive do you have?

EDIT: You already have a thread here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18422402

Please keep it to one thread... no need to make more on the same topic.

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:05

Gigabyte Krypton Z68 M.B and Hitachi HDP725025GLA380 ATA hard drive. Just ran specy and it reports that my CPU is at stock core speed of 3300 Mhz, that's base speed isn't it?

Doomedspeed · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:10

stratman59 said:
Gigabyte Krypton Z68 M.B and Hitachi HDP725025GLA380 ATA hard drive. Just ran specy and it reports that my CPU is at stock core speed of 3300 Mhz, that's base speed isn't it?

That is stock speed, yes.

Use CPU-Z, it can tell you exact, speeds and voltages.

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:27

O.K

CPUZ reports, core speed 1604.77 Mhz, multiplier of x 16.0 bus speed 100.3 Mhz

Memory (kingston PC3 10700 667Mhz) all at 1.50 V

RJC · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:29

Run Prime which is linked above, this will stress the CPU and raise the multiplier.

Doomedspeed · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:31

That looks fine, assuming Speedstep is on in the BIOS. it runs the CPU at half speed when not under load.

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:46

Hi, yeah sorry for running two threads. So are those figures fine for an overclocked system or a standard install. I can call the tech boys in the morning as i don't want to change anything in case I invalidate my warranty.

All I need to know is have I somehow messed up the overclock from overclockers, if so I guess the techs will be able to get me back on track?

RJC · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:48

At the moment its hard to say until you run the prime to put the CPU under full load.

You can reload the overclock by popping into the BIOS and loading the saved profile which Ocuk would have saved.

buzzlightweight · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:00

RJC said:
At the moment its hard to say until you run the prime to put the CPU under full load.

You can reload the overclock by pooping into the BIOS and loading the saved profile which Ocuk would have saved.

this ^^

FallshirmjAEger · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:06

Tends to be drivers & stuff that mainly affect windows boot times. I had a bad marvell driver once add over 1 min to the boot time.

RJC said:
pooping into the BIOS.

Don't try this at home kids!

RJC · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:18

Ha ha excellent, got to carried With ooo's

stratman59 · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:32

Ha ha, yeah, pooped into the bios, hell of a lot of sparks!!!

Only options in bios are 'load fail safe' and 'load optimized'.

martynpd · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:36

realtemp I used. It gives a good temp readout, also it will tell you what speed your cpu is running at and what multiplier so you can see the load going on and off the CPU