I recently purchased an Athlon64 X2 6000+ to replace my 3800+ on my EP-MF570SLI mobo. My 3800+ was recognized under XP and Vista, meaning that I could see the model name displayed correctly in system properties. But now when I go to my system properties with my new CPU, it says simply "Athlon processor" instead of actually giving its model.
On top of that, overclocking the FSB gives random results, sometimes increasing the displayed clock speed under system properties, and sometimes even decreasing it! I've tried to view my clockspeed in other utilities such as nTune, but they generally show the same results.
I guess I should mention that when my computer POSTS it says that the FSB is running at 375 Mhz. The BIOS of this mobo lets me key the amount that I would like to overclock the FSB, not set its total Mhz value. So it's default value is zero, and if I type in 50 for example, it should take it up to 250 Mhz. That was with my 3800+, but now it POSTs saying that my FSB is 375 and randomly goes up and down as I change the overclock value in the BIOS. For example, I can type in 90 as the OC value and get a resulting FSB of 358. Any ideas what would be causing this?
The first thing to consider, of course, is if I have the most updated BIOS for this mobo. According to Epox's USA site, it says that I have the most recent which was released on 7/7/06. Also, I've seen a few custom PC building sites that let you combine the EP-MF570SLI with Athlon64 X2 6000+, so I would assume that they are compatible.
I should also mention that even with this apparent problem, the performance of my computer has jumped dramatically. I used to run Company of Heroes with avg. fps of 31. Now it's at 52. So obviouslly the processor "works", and is running under 40 degrees C idle, under 50 under high workload.
Any ideas what could be causing the overclocking problem? Even though Windows isn't fully recognizing my processor, maybe cuz my mobo isn't either, do you think I'm still taking full advantage of my processor (w/out OCing)? Thanks, and sorry for the long post.
On top of that, overclocking the FSB gives random results, sometimes increasing the displayed clock speed under system properties, and sometimes even decreasing it! I've tried to view my clockspeed in other utilities such as nTune, but they generally show the same results.
I guess I should mention that when my computer POSTS it says that the FSB is running at 375 Mhz. The BIOS of this mobo lets me key the amount that I would like to overclock the FSB, not set its total Mhz value. So it's default value is zero, and if I type in 50 for example, it should take it up to 250 Mhz. That was with my 3800+, but now it POSTs saying that my FSB is 375 and randomly goes up and down as I change the overclock value in the BIOS. For example, I can type in 90 as the OC value and get a resulting FSB of 358. Any ideas what would be causing this?
The first thing to consider, of course, is if I have the most updated BIOS for this mobo. According to Epox's USA site, it says that I have the most recent which was released on 7/7/06. Also, I've seen a few custom PC building sites that let you combine the EP-MF570SLI with Athlon64 X2 6000+, so I would assume that they are compatible.
I should also mention that even with this apparent problem, the performance of my computer has jumped dramatically. I used to run Company of Heroes with avg. fps of 31. Now it's at 52. So obviouslly the processor "works", and is running under 40 degrees C idle, under 50 under high workload.
Any ideas what could be causing the overclocking problem? Even though Windows isn't fully recognizing my processor, maybe cuz my mobo isn't either, do you think I'm still taking full advantage of my processor (w/out OCing)? Thanks, and sorry for the long post.
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