Chainging Chips around

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have been using coretemp.

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose!

Seems strange. My Q6600 does not seem to be doing that. Have you turned off EIST and any other energy saving technologies?? If the BIOS is locked use RMClock.

[handscombmp]

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose!

Seems strange. My Q6600 does not seem to be doing that. Have you turned off EIST and any other energy saving technologies?? If the BIOS is locked use RMClock.

That what i thought as mine is fine even with the savings turned on.
I'll go and change them now and have a look.

[handscombmp]

Just been and looked and i can't see anywhere to disable them but i can change the FSB. Weird!

In the bios if i change the CPU voltage the default and lowest it will go it 1.25V but when i look at hardware monitoring it says 1.33.

I also ran realtemp and under settings it says
v core min 1.16
V core max 1.3

EDIT: Just ran RMClock and it says the start up voltage is 1.3 and the minium is 1.16 with a multiplier of 6X.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

In RMClock under Advanced CPU settings you can disable the low power states and the CPU will stop down clocking on the fly.

[handscombmp]

In RMClock under Advanced CPU settings you can disable the low power states and the CPU will stop down clocking on the fly.

Went to do that and C1E is already disabled but the option to disable the EIST is greyed out?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Uncheck all the boxes in the low power states pane and then use Core Temp and see what you get.

[handscombmp]

Everything in there is already unchecked and it comes up with the moving VID core in coretemp.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is really strange!!

[handscombmp]

I know. And annoying.

Lets just say though that the VID is 1.3.
I know we can't say for certain but which of the two chips would probaly it be best to overclock with.

[rkingb]

Also be aware that a lot of the g0 that didn't overclock so well for whatever reason got shipped out to OEM builds so even though it's fine at stock it may not overclock so well.

Don't quite understand this comment. Are you suggesting Intel check every CPU for overclocking?

[rkingb]

I know. And annoying.

Lets just say though that the VID is 1.3.
I know we can't say for certain but which of the two chips would probaly it be best to overclock with.

You have not said which mobo and bios u are using, but coretemp VID should not change.

[Blaineoliver]

Don't quite understand this comment. Are you suggesting Intel check every CPU for overclocking?

Well if you think about it the E2xxx series are same chips as E6xxx series, its the quality of the chip at clocking and its vid power state that defines where it is speed binned. Speed binning is overclocking to see what spec the chip has come out at, the ones that barely made 2.4 in the correct vid would go to oems. in quads.

[handscombmp]

You have not said which mobo and bios u are using, but coretemp VID should not change.

When i come to overclocking it will be on a Abit P35 Pro XE board with the latest bios.

[rkingb]

I think that you are confusing marketing with technology, E2xxx are simply a way of selling old E6xxx chips at an acceptable price to the consumer. How exactly do you believe speed binning can be applied to individual CPU's so that they can be passed to OEM's?

[rkingb]

When i come to overclocking it will be on a Abit P35 Pro XE board with the latest bios.

Fair enough but what system are you getting the variable VID readings from?

[rkingb]

Sorry going to bed now...
handscompbmp - with an Abit X35 you should be able to get a good overclock - at least 3GHz with good cooling. I used to get that with an old Asus P5B and my G0 Q6600 - and the chip was undervolted.
Good luck with the overclock an the GF.