Thatll probably be intel speed step at work, this is a power saving feature which drops the multiplier from 8 to 6 when the system is at idle, this can be disabled in the bios under cpu configuration iirc, listed as c1e/eist, 8x400 fsb gives you a clockspeed of 3.2ghz, nice jump from stock, test theese settings with prime95 small fft, also what cooler are you using, as the stock intel cooler isnt great. Keep an eye on your temps with coretemp, ideally you dont wanna go over 70-75c.
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Thanks for the continued support setter. I disabled speed step and managed to overclock to 3.4
I'm running prime95 and it's doing a stress test. I have bought a after market cooler and I generally never use stock coolers.
The CPU was 45 degrees at idle and the stress test has it at 85 with 100% load on all four cores.I haven't touched the voltage as I left that on auto. The computer seems very stable and has had no problems.
Do these temps seem ok or should I be lowering them?
I'm running prime95 and it's doing a stress test. I have bought a after market cooler and I generally never use stock coolers.
The CPU was 45 degrees at idle and the stress test has it at 85 with 100% load on all four cores.I haven't touched the voltage as I left that on auto. The computer seems very stable and has had no problems.
Do these temps seem ok or should I be lowering them?
Auto doesn't mean it sets the voltage to stock, it means it sets it to whatever it thinks your chip might need. Boards have a tendency to significantly overestimate this, which would correlate with your temperatures. High voltage leads to high temperatures, and neither are good for chips.
The earlier advice about asking coretemp /cpuz what voltage is going through your processor with everything at default then setting that number in the bios is very good. I strongly recommend you take it, as auto can kill things.
edit: I'd be very unhappy at 85 degrees under prime, that's a good 15 over comfortable temperatures. I suspect you have a very high voltage going through your chip, a (very) crap aftermarket cooler or need to remount the cooler properly
The earlier advice about asking coretemp /cpuz what voltage is going through your processor with everything at default then setting that number in the bios is very good. I strongly recommend you take it, as auto can kill things.
edit: I'd be very unhappy at 85 degrees under prime, that's a good 15 over comfortable temperatures. I suspect you have a very high voltage going through your chip, a (very) crap aftermarket cooler or need to remount the cooler properly
As jonj678 has said, take the voltage of auto, as this will be feeding the chip more voltage than it really needs, therefore increasing temps, with the vid as a starting point set as cpu voltage, find how far you can go on the fsb on this voltage, youll eventually get to a point were youll need to increase the voltage a notch or 2 as the system may fail to boot or a worker thread in prime throws an error.
