Use speedstep or not?

I have a small overclock (300mhz) on my Intel Core 2 E6300 machine.
Should I use Gigabytes equivalent to speedstep?

bornfree wrote:

I have a small overclock (300mhz) on my Intel Core 2 E6300 machine.
Should I use Gigabytes equivalent to speedstep?

If it is stable at your chosen overclock, then sure, why not? It'll run cooler,
use less power, and probably last longer.

On 21 Jan, 04:41, "Fishface" ? wrote:
bornfree wrote:
I have a small overclock (300mhz) on my Intel Core 2 E6300 machine.
Should I use Gigabytes equivalent to speedstep?

If it is stable at your chosen overclock, then sure, why not? It'll run cooler,
use less power, and probably last longer.

Ok thanks Fishface. I had to check!

On 21 Jan, 04:41, "Fishface" ? wrote:
bornfree wrote:
I have a small overclock (300mhz) on my Intel Core 2 E6300 machine.
Should I use Gigabytes equivalent to speedstep?

If it is stable at your chosen overclock, then sure, why not? It'll run cooler,
use less power, and probably last longer.

If I double or triple my over clock, do you think the speedstep will
cause problems?

Somewhere on teh intarweb "bornfree" typed:
On 21 Jan, 04:41, "Fishface" ? wrote:
bornfree wrote:
I have a small overclock (300mhz) on my Intel Core 2 E6300 machine.
Should I use Gigabytes equivalent to speedstep?

If it is stable at your chosen overclock, then sure, why not? It'll
run cooler, use less power, and probably last longer.

If I double or triple my over clock, do you think the speedstep will
cause problems?

Why would it?

I have a rock-solid stable system, an E4500 that was supposed to run at 11 x
200(real)MHz for 2.2GHz CPU clock. I've restricted the multiplier to 8x,
raised the vcore a smidgen, set the FSB to 413 (seemed like a good number),
for a "1652MHz" [quad-pumped] FSB, which is running my DDR3/800 1:1at "826".
I have left speedstep, EIST, whatever you want to call it, enabled. When the
PC is idling the multiplier drops to 6x and gives me a CPU speed of just
under 2.5GHz. That's plenty powerful for running a system at idle don't you
think? When I need the power it switches to 8x faster than I can blink.

I could lock it at the 8x multiplier, disable SS/EIST (in fact I did for a
while) but I don't see the point. shrug
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Shaun.