is this right?

Tangerine

Tangerine

Tangerine

Associate
Joined
30 Jul 2008
Posts
13
im new to overclocking and had a little play tonight before chickening out and setting everything back to normal (ie everything back to auto in the bios)

anyway upon booting and checking cpu-z i noticed my vcore is now at 0.960v

i double checked the bios and loaded setup defaults to make sure and the bios says the vcore is 1.xxx but once booted into vista i getting the 0.960v reading.

have i done something wrong and damaged the cpu and its throttling back to that or something? i dont remember it being that low b4 i started playing with the settings.
 
it may or may not be speedstep changing the voltages. this can be disabled by turning off C1E and EIST in the bios. speedstep in a power-saving feature. it works by lowering the multiplier when the cpu isnt stressed, a slower cpu needs less volts therefore it could be lowerign the voltage as well
 
just went back into the bios to double check the multiplyer and its set on auto and bios says its at 9.5x but when booting into vista cpu-z is reporting it as 6x again. This may be why *** vcore is so low i presume.

cant understand why its changing once i boot into vista tho when the bios reports everything as normal.

Any ideas?

p.s also tried stressing the cpu to see if values went up but only multiplyer went up**
 
Last edited:
Check your msconfig for anything on boot up taht you don't want. COuld possibly be giving incorrect readings.

Plus see if you can turn Speedstep off in your bios.
 
i turned off speedstep an d that did solve the problem however when i ran orthos b4 it increased the multiplyer but not the vcore..

is that right?


P.s dont suppose anyone has an idiots guide to overclocking an E8500 on a P5E mobo? im totally clueless hence i chickened out.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom