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| Razon wrote: | Thanks Doctor Feelgood.
So while I was in bios last night, I looked at the temps that are posted there and I had 22 for the cpu and 34 for the system. (again, with ~23deg in my room...going by the thermostat).
Increasing the voltage made the temps go a little higher, but still couldn't push the speed any higher (I went all the way to 1.46v effective with a 1.5v setting).
I kept the memory at 800MHz in bios so 400MHz clock in CPU Z. I then tryed 1240MHz (620MHz) and it was just as stable, but it seems to be the top limit for the memory.
It seems that the limmiting thing for me is the FSB which will only go to ~1240 MHz (with a 310MHz entered bus speed). The selection for the multiplyer is 6-9.. I'm using 9 so I'm allready maxed out there.
So what I'm thinking:
1. There is a problem chipset
2. Since the max speed it's the same as the memory limit maybe they're still somehow tied together (the FSB and mem speed) even though I unlinked them....I doubt it though.
For solution I'm thinking to try an older bios that allows me to select a higher multiplyer (F2 I belive goes up to 15) (I'm using F4 now).
How important is to have a high bus speed with a small multiplyer as opposed to smaller bus speed with a high multiplyer??? |
The q6600's multiplier locked to between 6 and 9 regardless of what you choose in the bios, unless you have an engineering sample or some other special testing release of the cpu. Also, be extremely careful with your voltage. If you can't acheive good results with 1.4v or less, something is wrong. As for temps, coretemp (the latest version is reading die temps correctly. The older version read them 15c lower than they actually were, but that has been fixed. It's possible your motherboard is having the same issue that coretemp had, unless the bios was updated after release of the G0 stepping cpu's, it may be 15degrees Celsius low. It's also possible the bios isn't reading die temps at all, but another separate sensor between the dies or in the cpu socket on the motherboard.
coreTemp may be misreading your cpu speed, but it's core temps are accurate. If you don't believe them, try TAT (Intel's Thermal Analysis Tool).
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