E6600 multiplier -what's going on?
Recently I upgraded with new motherboard, graphics card, memory and 6600 core 2 duo.
I downloaded some utilities to see if everything was ok, the only problem was getting the memory to run at 800 mhz (corsair 6400c4). A motherboard firmware upgrade solved it, but the latencys were at 5-5-5-21 by default with spd, so I changed them to 4-4-4-12 but they showed up under cpu-z as 4-4-4-16. I tried 4-4-4-8 but then it wouldn't boot, so i had to reset the bios. Then sometimes even 4-4-4-12 wouldn't boot, so I left it at default.
Now looking at cpu-z(1.37) its showing my cpu as 1600mhz as the multiplier has changed to 6x with the bus speed at 266. It was definitely 2400mhz with 9x 266 before. Also there is no option to change the multiplier in my bios (which still states on boot that its 266 x9)
Coretemp shows 2400mhz (400 x 6) and the performance chart under task manager in vista shows processor frequency at 66%.
So which is right?
Using superpi as a guide, i was initially getting about 22 seconds for 1m places, but its now about 30.
I've upgraded to the very latest motherboard bios, and set all to defaults but still get the same result in cpu-z, there is still no option ts change multiplier, only fsb, so how do i change it back - or is the fault with cpu-z / coretemp etc.?
thanks
Recently I upgraded with new motherboard, graphics card, memory and 6600 core 2 duo.
I downloaded some utilities to see if everything was ok, the only problem was getting the memory to run at 800 mhz (corsair 6400c4). A motherboard firmware upgrade solved it, but the latencys were at 5-5-5-21 by default with spd, so I changed them to 4-4-4-12 but they showed up under cpu-z as 4-4-4-16. I tried 4-4-4-8 but then it wouldn't boot, so i had to reset the bios. Then sometimes even 4-4-4-12 wouldn't boot, so I left it at default.
Now looking at cpu-z(1.37) its showing my cpu as 1600mhz as the multiplier has changed to 6x with the bus speed at 266. It was definitely 2400mhz with 9x 266 before. Also there is no option to change the multiplier in my bios (which still states on boot that its 266 x9)
Coretemp shows 2400mhz (400 x 6) and the performance chart under task manager in vista shows processor frequency at 66%.
So which is right?
Using superpi as a guide, i was initially getting about 22 seconds for 1m places, but its now about 30.
I've upgraded to the very latest motherboard bios, and set all to defaults but still get the same result in cpu-z, there is still no option ts change multiplier, only fsb, so how do i change it back - or is the fault with cpu-z / coretemp etc.?
thanks
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