Weird Overclocking Glitch Maybe?

Matt7613 · 6 May 2007 at 07:56

Hey Guys,

I've been trying to overclock with my rubbish ASUS P5LD2-VM-DH, I've got my 3.4 Dual Core to 3.81. But when I go onto CPU-Z, the clock speed keeps changing from 2.6GHZ to 3.8GHZ.

I have some screenshot's below:

Any idea what's wrong?

-Matt

vanandjuanunited · 6 May 2007 at 08:27

Have you disabled speedstep or whatever its called.

Matt7613 · 6 May 2007 at 09:16

Where do you find that?

vanandjuanunited · 6 May 2007 at 11:13

Its in the bios. Check the manual.

jongeeone · 6 May 2007 at 11:22

Yep thats speedstep - when you do a cpu intensive task it puts the clocks up to 3.8 etc etc

Energy saving etc etc

Matt7613 · 6 May 2007 at 11:28

Ok Thanks,

Problem sorted now, I had to re-turn to stock as at 3.8GHZ my Idle temp was 42c! But the weird thing is, when it was at 3.7GHZ it was 32c Idle?

Weirdd!

-Matt

keogh · 6 May 2007 at 11:34

Matt7613 said:
Ok Thanks,

Problem sorted now, I had to re-turn to stock as at 3.8GHZ my Idle temp was 42c! But the weird thing is, when it was at 3.7GHZ it was 32c Idle?

Weirdd!

-Matt

idle at 42c isn't too bad, whats it reach on full load (orthos Small FFTS)?

Matt7613 · 6 May 2007 at 11:36

Ermm I haven't ran any test's at 3.8GHZ, but it's gone passed 51c at some points.

-Matt

keogh · 6 May 2007 at 11:42

I would start worrying once you hit 60c really, they run hotter than the C2Ds.

But for only an extra 100mhz and such a big jump in temps, prob better to stick at 3.7ghz on a much lower temp. Its all down to what your happy with, its your CPU after all!

Matt7613 · 6 May 2007 at 11:46

Yeh, true.

Well when I've got mu QuadGT and Water cooling fitted, i'll crank the GHZ up big time and hopefully have successful temps.

-Matt

keogh · 6 May 2007 at 12:22

Matt7613 said:
Yeh, true.

Well when I've got mu QuadGT and Water cooling fitted, i'll crank the GHZ up big time and hopefully have successful temps.

-Matt

With water, I'm sure your squeeze every ounce out of your cpu!