Newbie to overclocking

SoundLab · 10 Sep 2009 at 19:52

Hi Guys,

I'm a newbie to overclocking ... I've taken delivery of the "Titan" I7 that is overclocked to 3.4ghz. I checked Windows 7 system details and it showed that it was running at 2.6ghz, so I downloaded and ran CPU-Z just to see what it reported.

Being new to overclocking, I was wondering if you could advise whether my machine is in-fact running at 3.4ghz (as from what I can tell, it's not).

Cheers
"Soundlab"

95thrifles · 10 Sep 2009 at 19:59

This is intel speedstep, its an energy saving feature, when your PC isnt running at full pelt it declocks itself by lowering the multiplier, when needed it will automatically put the multiplier back up to 20, as you see its 12 whilst in energy saving mode

SoundLab · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:20

Ah, ok. Sounds like I need to read up on the i7 a bit more so that I can then understand how the overclocking will work

Thanks for your quick response - much appreciated.

ben90 · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:24

SoundLab said:
Ah, ok. Sounds like I need to read up on the i7 a bit more so that I can then understand how the overclocking will work

If by that you mean when you yourself overclock it more, then there is no difference if you leave it on, you still overclock in the same way.

SoundLab · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:48

No, it's more a case of understanding overclocking and the i7 a bit more. I have no intention of overclocking it further.

I bought it as an overclocked machine from OC (they were doing a deal last week on the Titan i7 machine) and have just installed Win 7 64-bit RC (got the home premium coming next month so thought I'd have a play with it now). Nosing around I noticed the clockspeed that was indicated by windows, so thought I'd try and find out more about it.

I've never had an overclocked PC before and (obviously) I'd like to know more about it.

SoundLab · 14 Sep 2009 at 21:13

Just a quick follow-up on this. "Prime95" was mentioned to me as a good way of putting all of the cores under "stress" so that I could see what CPU-Z showed. I've done this and got the following:

So, as suggested, the original capture just showed the processor being throttled back as it's not being stressed. Thanks again for the useful info.