I recomend this program...

TheMorningStar

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RightMark Clock Utility

basicly it replaces your power management software for your CPU.

This little program supports most CPUs back to amd athlon/XP and PentiumII from what I can tell.

I use it on my Opteron 180 and it works a charm. Replaces my cool'n'quiet which my bios doesnt suport on Opterons but the program works so much better. is great to play with, I have controle over all multipliers from x4-x12 and can lower vcore to .800 which i do when running the x4 cpu multi. keeps my system very quiet and very cool. Best of all overclocking doesn't seem to give it any problems like it does with cool'n'quiet.

Anyway give it a look over..

http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml


"RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level on supported CPU models via processor's power management model-specific registers (MSRs). In automatic management mode it continuously monitors the CPU usage level and dynamically adjusts the CPU frequency, throttle and/or voltage level as needed, realizing the "Performance on Demand" concept."


Real-time CPU clock and CPU/OS load level determination and monitoring (with optional logging).

Detection of virtually any form of CPU clock throttling.

Dynamic on-demand CPU performance state (P-state) transitions via real-time adjustment of CPU multiplier (FID) and/or requested voltage level (VID).

Dynamic on-demand CPU clock modulation via real-time transitions between CPU clock throttling levels.

Fine-tuning of advanced CPU-specific power management settings for AMD K7, AMD K8, Intel Pentium M/Centrino platform, Intel Pentium 4 and Xeon, Intel Core Solo/Core Duo/Centrino Duo platform, Intel Core 2, VIA C7 and Transmeta Crusoe/Efficeon CPU families.

Complete support for multi-processor (SMP/HT/multicore) systems.

Windows power management settings and LCD display brightness control (where supported).

Battery information display (general and per-battery) including real-time status display of the battery life time, charge level, charge/discharge rate etc.

CPU core temperature display (available on AMD K8, Intel Core and Intel Core 2 CPU families).
 
i can vouch form Rm clock my mobo doesnt suport mobile socket 754 chips and so doesnt run my sempron at the correct speed, i started using Rm clock and now im overclocking it form 1.8 ghz to 2.1ghz.
great little program.
 
TheMorningStar said:
Any overclocker that wants to reduce Heat and/or Noise... Isn't that all of us?
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I usually recommend turning off all the power saving features as it gives a more stable overclock.

Thanks for the heads-up though - for HTPCs it could be the answer to several questions.

And your response to that post from krisboats is the best I've seen in quite some time. :D Just a flat dead pan response. No attempt to be sarcastic or negative. Brilliant.
 
WJA96 said:
I usually recommend turning off all the power saving features as it gives a more stable overclock.

Thanks for the heads-up though - for HTPCs it could be the answer to several questions.

And your response to that post from krisboats is the best I've seen in quite some time. :D Just a flat dead pan response. No attempt to be sarcastic or negative. Brilliant.
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All my clocks are done with power saving features enabled have never had any issue with it causing instability In fact I can only boot into windows at 4.2ghz+ having them enabled
 
Pneumonic said:
All my clocks are done with power saving features enabled have never had any issue with it causing instability In fact I can only boot into windows at 4.2ghz+ having them enabled
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Bizarre. It must be some oddity of the P5K-E that this works as it doesn't on most other brands.
 
TheMorningStar said:
Any overclocker that wants to reduce Heat and/or Noise... Isn't that all of us?
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At full overclock, yes. But if the machine isn't running at full speed because SpeedStep/Cool'n'Quiet has kicked in then it isn't fully overclocked any more. IMNSHO that makes you a grade 3 overclocker...:p


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I came across this program when I had my Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' motherboard. Truly terrible for overclocking features in hindsight, although it was rock stable.

Basically, you could turn Speedstep off in the BIOS i think, but there was never an option for C1E. This program allows you to disable C1E in Windows, which was a god-send to me.

Wasn't that impressed with it as a program though...
 
Meridian said:
At full overclock, yes. But if the machine isn't running at full speed because SpeedStep/Cool'n'Quiet has kicked in then it isn't fully overclocked any more. IMNSHO that makes you a grade 3 overclocker...:p

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If the machine is idling then you dont need the full overclock, as soon as it needs the overclock then it jumps back up.. As long as the machine is stable at the full clock then I dont see the issue of letting it idle at a lower multi
 
WJA96 said:
Bizarre. It must be some oddity of the P5K-E that this works as it doesn't on most other brands.
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Speed step and other power saving features cause instability in my board but only between 1.46volt and 1.5. Anywhere above or below those voltages it seems to be fine. Vdroop becomes much less out of those ranges aswell. Makes me wonder if those in-between voltages are fake and are just there to give the appearance of more overclocking options.:confused:
 
YZFAndy said:
Speed step and other power saving features cause instability in my board but only between 1.46volt and 1.5. Anywhere above or below those voltages it seems to be fine. Vdroop becomes much less out of those ranges aswell. Makes me wonder if those in-between voltages are fake and are just there to give the appearance of more overclocking options.:confused:
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Now that would be a revelation if someone discovered those voltages are fake. But that couldn't be the case, surely?
 
I use my PC for watching movies, TV programs, music and audio books and when doing so I like to keep my system as quiet as it can be. It's also a shuttle sn25p so keeping heat down is always important to me.

Of course there’s then gaming which makes use of the overclocking.. Hey I just like overclocking :p I don't really want to make a trade off with noise though. I'm also pretty green orientated, not a tree hugger but I think about my carbon footprint so when I can make improvements in power consumption without to much impact on my enjoyment of things I do so.

From the overclocking point of view I get to play with each multi and optimize it fully. You can play around with this program for weeks tinkering here and there and I think that kind of involvement in our systems is what interests most overclockers.

As an actual tool for overclocking performance this tool has little merit. However as a tool to work with overclocking I find it invaluable. I know of nothing else that offers this kind of functionality that’s out there anyway..

Thought it was worth a mention anyway :)
 
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WJA96 said:
Now that would be a revelation if someone discovered those voltages are fake. But that couldn't be the case, surely?
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Here is what I get at different voltages.

Bios windows load
1.462 1.46 1.46
1.48 1.47 1.46
1.487 1.47 1.46
1.49 1.48 1.46
1.50 1.48 1.46
1.51 1.51 1.50
1.518 1.52 1.51
1.525 1.52 1.51

No difference all the way from 1.46 volt all the way 1.51 volt when loading, not really sure how that’s explained. Couldn’t work out how I got to 3600 quite easily and couldn’t go 1mhz higher. Now I’m above 1.51 volts it’s off again, just trying to find a good compromise now between speed and temp.

And away from the threat hijack, the right mark utility is very good for AMD systems. Used to get idle and web browsing temperatures of 23c at which point most system fans would turn off. Not found so good with Intel systems.
 
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Yeah the voltage you select and what you actually get can often be pretty out. Its odd how yours are so static though. what are you measuring them within windows? I use CPUZ and/or speedfan.
 
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