Speedstep and Overclocking?

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Ive currently got my E6300 at 3.4ghz and im wondering if enabling speedstep will have a negative effect on my overclock (I Know it wont be any faster)?

Has anyone tried overclocking with speedstep enabled? Also, how much does speedstep lower idle temps and power consumption?

Thanks, Ben

 

[BEn_2600+]

Thanks Psycho, I might give it a go and see

 

[BEn_2600+]

Ive enabled it and it seems to be working ok Dont know what Ive achived tho as the Idle temps are exactly the same Might aswell just leave it off

 

[BEn_2600+]

did you set windows power saving settings to make use of the speedstep

No, how do you do it?

 

[BEn_2600+]

control panel
power options
"power schemes" - minimal power management.

That should tell windows to slow everything down when not in use, you can adjust the bits below it if you want, ie the hard drive etc

With that enabled it drops my idle voltage to 1.050v (read via CPU-Z) and thats at 2.9GHz Runs stable too! Might be a CPU-Z bug but it will be excellent if not

Thanks a lot, ben