I just started overclocking my Q6600 on my asus P5E3. I started with a FSB of 300. I took off most of the relevent auto settings and off I went.
My PC booted up fine but when looking at CPU-z or everest it showed my CPU running at 1.8GHz (6x multi) instead of 2.7Ghz even though in the bios I set them to 9x.
The strange behaviour is that every 5 seconds or so it will flash up to a 9x and the CPU running at 2.7 Ghz. What I also notice is that the graphics card is also underclocked from 650Mhz (default) down to 500 Mhz. I have no idea why this is when they're completely unrelated and the PCIE bus is at default (100).
I am slightly worried that my motherboard doesn't support my CPU as it doesn't state it explicitly on the ASUS website, however about 5 other P5E3 (deluxe, premium, etc) are shown and the spec sheet does say that it supports quad core 2 cpus.
My PC booted up fine but when looking at CPU-z or everest it showed my CPU running at 1.8GHz (6x multi) instead of 2.7Ghz even though in the bios I set them to 9x.
The strange behaviour is that every 5 seconds or so it will flash up to a 9x and the CPU running at 2.7 Ghz. What I also notice is that the graphics card is also underclocked from 650Mhz (default) down to 500 Mhz. I have no idea why this is when they're completely unrelated and the PCIE bus is at default (100).
I am slightly worried that my motherboard doesn't support my CPU as it doesn't state it explicitly on the ASUS website, however about 5 other P5E3 (deluxe, premium, etc) are shown and the spec sheet does say that it supports quad core 2 cpus.
