New Core 2 Duo build complete - Need some help

Why... why... why don't people use the search button???

IT'S SPEEEEEED STePPPPPPPPPPpppPPPPPpPPPppppPPpPPppPP. (speed step)

Don't worry.. it fine, really. Now go play your games.

Edit:

holy crap... that search button is actually... worthless. . o O (couldn't find much)

His RAM is working like it should. 5:6 ratio. So that has nothing ta do with it.

C1E is the power management of speedstep (EIST). But basically speedstep changes the multiplier to its lowest setting (x6) idle. When the CPU is under a load, it should return it to x8. 8x333=2664mhz or 2.66ghz (C1E helps reduce the vcore at idle or stand by, I believe)

Disabling speedstep will give him more disadvantage to power savings as well as reduced heat.

I see in your CPU-Z screenshot your RAM is running at a command rate of 2T.Your RAM will perform better if you change the command rate from 2T to 1T.

Well... Changing the command rate to 1T, will not offer any notable difference. Which I mean as far as opening programs and games. It can improve perhaps benchmark scores. It can also lead to system instabilities, if its actually too fast for the system to keep up. So it is best to use Memtest86+ when changing the timings and such to be sure things will be stable in windows.

To set them, you need to go into the bios and look at menus that have the memory settings. Usually, once you change the setting from auto to manual, you will see the other timings. Again, it helps some performance that you really couldn't tell without benchmarks.

Also, like I mention above, you should throughly test it with Memtest. If you start the system without knowning if it will be stable, you do have a chance of corrupting startup files, and having another headache.

When I first built my new box, I spent a while tinkering with it. Back when I had the AC Freezer Pro installed, I was running at 3.3 GHz (367 MHz X9, DDR2-733 mem speed). Standard default mem timing was 5-5-5-15-2T. I got it down to 3-3-3-6-1T, tested for stability with 24 hour Orthos run.

Memory benchmarks indicated a 6% improvement in mem i/o. Half of that was from going from -2T to -1T. Outside of benchmarks, was it noticeable? No.

For that matter ...
With the TR Ultra 120 Ext. HSF, I was able to reach 3.6 GHz. Is that noticeable? Probably not, but it helps ensure that the CPU is not bottlenecking the graphics card.