Speedstep help

Tigz79

Tigz79

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Hey, I've not had my new PC for long and thought it was time to try out some overclocking, when i go into the Bios there is an option for speed step think it was called that, anyways was wanting to know if it was better to have this enabled or not as the PC i bought is meant to be overclocked already to 2.9ghz or beyond but whenever i go to check my specs it comes up as saying its 2.4ghz, does having speed step enabled effect this? my specs are

Core 2 DUO E6600 2.40GHz oc to 2.93GHz
Vista Premium 32-Bit
BFG 1000W power supply
500GB Western Digital SATA-2 Hard Drive
Cell shock 2gb ram
BFG NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB Graphics card

Thanks for any help :)
 
I think its to do with keeping ram in sync with CPU's real FSB (remember Intels are quad pumped so 200x4=800 example), if your ram can manage same speed as your current FSB turn it on, I aint 100% sure on Intel set up but googled it.
 
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BEn_2600+ said:
Speedstep lowers your multiplyer to 6 when idle to save energy, turn it off while overclocking ;)
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yeah it seems to be showing x6 in cpu-z thats why i was wondering if that was whats stopping me cing my OC settings, it was just showing 2.4ghz? is there any way i can run the comp maxed out so i can see if the machine is overclocked to the higher spec which was stated when i bought the pc, thanks for the info guys :)
 
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