Intel Badaxe 2 and SpeedStep

subxero · 24 Aug 2007 at 19:52

Hey guys, just a quick question about this because I seem to be having a problem whereby I can't actually switch this off on this board, even though it is disabled in the BIOS?

EIST and C1E are both disabled so in theory the board should stay at 9x with 380FSB (E6600). Obviously because SpeedStep drops the multi when the processor isn't under load, the multiplier drops back to 6x.

Any ideas for a fix? Tried a range of BIOSes but without any luck. Problem with the board perhaps? Only noticed it the other day when I had reinstalled Windows and used CPU-Z.

Cheers guys

Justintime · 24 Aug 2007 at 20:03

Could never figure it out with my bad axe 1 and later with my 2, theres nothing in the advanced options when the solder pads are joined either. Apparently the early Bad Axe one Bioses allowed for this but i've tried that with no luck either so it may not be possible.

Coolasmoo · 24 Aug 2007 at 22:10

C1E wont switch off on the Badaxe 2

If you really want to turn it off there is a program you can run on startup

If you read through the back end of this thread it should find it, as i cant remember what it was now

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=124131&page=166

Justintime · 25 Aug 2007 at 00:09

Prolly something like crystal cpuid or Rmclock..

subxero · 25 Aug 2007 at 10:30

Cheers guys, I wasn't aware that it couldn't be switched off even though there is an option to disable it?

Very odd.