ASUS P5KPL-SE + Intel E6500

[t3rr4n]

Hello,

I'm new to overclocking never really had the desire to look into it after playing the same game for 10 years off and on, preferring a console for later releases.

However with my new found interest in some of the later titles my budget hardware is struggling so I was thinking that bumping up the speeds a little would be beneficial

Hardware:

ASUS P5KPL-SE Motherboard
Intel Pentium Processor E6500
Corsair Dominator GT DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) 2x2GB

Now when I opened up CPU-Z I have always been under the belief that my processor should run at 2.93Ghz out of the box, but mine is always fluctuating and spiking constantly with the most frequent value visible being approx 1684.0 Mhz.

After having a browse on google I found somebody with a similar motherboard on this forum asking for similar advice ( http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/259376-11-overclocking-e5400-asus-p5kpl ) I followed the best answer on that thread but my CPU is still at 1684.0 Mhz

This is the information I have changed in the BIOS using the advice in the thread linked above:

A.I. Overclocking -> Manual -> 280
DRAM Freq -> 1066 (I originally went up from 667 & 800 but my RAM should support 1066 right?)
Dual Voltage -> 2.2 (Again, I gradually increased going from 1.8 & 2.0)
VTT CPU Over Voltage -> 1.3 (set from Auto -> 1.2 prior)


These are my CPU-Z and CoreTemp screenshots as things stand with the above settings:

CPU-Z: http://i54.tinypic.com/2lca4ix.jpg
CoreTemp: http://i56.tinypic.com/156r1c9.jpg

Thanks for any help

 

[jsc]

That is SpeedStep kicking in while the CPU is under light load. Put a load on it and it will shift into high speed.

Run something like Orthos or Prime95 that will put a 100% load on your CPU.

With a little luck, you can get an E6500 up to around 4 GHz.

With the CPU running at stock freq, set the memory frequency to 533 MHz. That will give you a 1:1 FSB:RAM ratio.

 

[t3rr4n]

Hi

Thanks for the reply

I've managed to get the CPU speed stable by disabling CIST(?) or something along those lines in the BIOS it now reads 2.93 as it should.


How do I go about changing the mem frequencies?