I think my CPU is wrong

[robfosters]

I am looking to overclock my Q6600 when I get a new cooler (on order) as my system was running very slow.

I had a quick look at the bios and the FSB is 266mhz, and the multiplier is 6.

A more detailed glance sees that the bios is detecting a 1.6ghz cpu????

I know myself thats not right. How the hell could this have happened. I dont remember changing anything from when it was 2.4ghz???

 

[robfosters]

Yes, it's 6 in the bios.

Should I change it to 9?

And for the OC, I push the fsb up to 333. Is that correct?

 

[robfosters]

Yes it jumps to 9X multi.

But should the bios still read it as a 2.4 chip? It did before.

 

[robfosters]

yep

 

[robfosters]

On the POST. Says Q6600 detected at 1.6GHZ

Gigabyte G31M-ES2L

 

[robfosters]

Ah, its during POST, not in the BIOS menus themselves?

Does it say something like "Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 1.6GHz" ?

yes, exactly!

 

[robfosters]

Says its running at 2.4ghz. Same in device manager. All 4 cores running at 2.4.

Guess i'm all right then. Thanks for your help.

Will still raise the bios multiplier to 9 when I get the new cooler. See if it then shows up as 2.4 in post.