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AMD introduces 3.2GHz Athlon 64 X2 6400+
Ritter 197 wrote:
Hi Guys: It is a repeat from below: I reset the clocks, select "reset selection", then "apply selections", yet when I go back to view clocks it shows the original settings, not the selected settings. I also made sure again that under Options the checkmark is there to keep the newly selected option at Start up of windows. Still confusing all, and most of all, since it shows the original clocks, and they are active, since they constantly make upward or downward minor moves, is *95 even checking the new selected settings of the clock??? Prime95 is a stability test program. It doesn't care about clocks. It provides a 100% computing load, and uses all available cores. Cool N' Quiet is a feature of the OS, that modifies the voltage and frequency as a function of measured system load. Since Prime95 is running at the moment, Cool N' Quiet should keep the system at its top setting. If you can find a setting for Cool N' Quiet in the BIOS, you can try disabling it. The system should run at full speed all the time that way. Clockgen is supposed to control the clock generator chip. In the case of Nvidia chips, it adjusts something in the chipset itself, to cause the clocks to increase according to the dial settings. At least in the case of Clockgen here, I'm not seeing anything interesting in the registry. I presume the option to apply settings at startup, would store those settings in the registry. You can download CPUZ, and look at the clock values that program sees. The program has more current support, than Clockgen. The download link is on the upper left of the web page. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php See how it behaves with Cool N' Quiet disabled. A program like SuperPI can be used to benchmark the overclocked system. If the time to compute PI to a million digits is reduced, when the overclock is applied, that would be one way to prove that overclocking has happened. To be able to run a benchmark like this, you'd want to stop and exit Prime95. My 3.1GHz P4 calculates PI to one million digits in about 50 seconds. http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip Paul "Ritter 197" wrote in message . .. Thanks Paul. Yes I found that 1 little checkmark to apply these new settings at windows startup. Checking it did result in the settings that I had selected. You are just great! But when do you sleep? Are you not in the UK? I saw in another Newsgroup here that you said you had a fan for so and so many English pounds. I had not thought that I would hear from you when it is 10:20PM here and 2:20 in the morning in the UK. Just curious. Thanks again!!! "Paul" wrote in message ... Ritter 197 wrote: Here are my results so far, which are not what I expected: I first power up 95*. I then power the PPL etc. I see the original settings which I gave in an earlier response. I then moved the clock forward, as suggested, forward by 5Mhz or so and let 95* run for 10 minutes. I do not encounter a problem and continue with above slowly, always running after the advance the 95* for 10 or more minutes. I finally say "apply etc settings" which were : CPU 2545.38, FSB 231.40, RAM 282.82 I shut down and do a cold start, go back to PPL and lo and behold, the clock setting are again the original, not the ones I selected, checked out with 96* and set to "apply" So what am I doing wrong????? |
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AMD introduces 3.2GHz Athlon 64 X2 6400+
I downloaded and installed both programs
As far as speed is concerned, they still show the initial settings, not the changed (by me) settings. BTW Hitting F1 does open up a number of things, but nothing thaa llows me to change anything in the BIOS. I think, that after all, I am still operating at the old speeds/clock settings. "Paul" wrote in message ... Ritter 197 wrote: Hi Guys: It is a repeat from below: I reset the clocks, select "reset selection", then "apply selections", yet when I go back to view clocks it shows the original settings, not the selected settings. I also made sure again that under Options the checkmark is there to keep the newly selected option at Start up of windows. Still confusing all, and most of all, since it shows the original clocks, and they are active, since they constantly make upward or downward minor moves, is *95 even checking the new selected settings of the clock??? Prime95 is a stability test program. It doesn't care about clocks. It provides a 100% computing load, and uses all available cores. Cool N' Quiet is a feature of the OS, that modifies the voltage and frequency as a function of measured system load. Since Prime95 is running at the moment, Cool N' Quiet should keep the system at its top setting. If you can find a setting for Cool N' Quiet in the BIOS, you can try disabling it. The system should run at full speed all the time that way. Clockgen is supposed to control the clock generator chip. In the case of Nvidia chips, it adjusts something in the chipset itself, to cause the clocks to increase according to the dial settings. At least in the case of Clockgen here, I'm not seeing anything interesting in the registry. I presume the option to apply settings at startup, would store those settings in the registry. You can download CPUZ, and look at the clock values that program sees. The program has more current support, than Clockgen. The download link is on the upper left of the web page. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php See how it behaves with Cool N' Quiet disabled. A program like SuperPI can be used to benchmark the overclocked system. If the time to compute PI to a million digits is reduced, when the overclock is applied, that would be one way to prove that overclocking has happened. To be able to run a benchmark like this, you'd want to stop and exit Prime95. My 3.1GHz P4 calculates PI to one million digits in about 50 seconds. http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip Paul "Ritter 197" wrote in message . .. Thanks Paul. Yes I found that 1 little checkmark to apply these new settings at windows startup. Checking it did result in the settings that I had selected. You are just great! But when do you sleep? Are you not in the UK? I saw in another Newsgroup here that you said you had a fan for so and so many English pounds. I had not thought that I would hear from you when it is 10:20PM here and 2:20 in the morning in the UK. Just curious. Thanks again!!! "Paul" wrote in message ... Ritter 197 wrote: Here are my results so far, which are not what I expected: I first power up 95*. I then power the PPL etc. I see the original settings which I gave in an earlier response. I then moved the clock forward, as suggested, forward by 5Mhz or so and let 95* run for 10 minutes. I do not encounter a problem and continue with above slowly, always running after the advance the 95* for 10 or more minutes. I finally say "apply etc settings" which were : CPU 2545.38, FSB 231.40, RAM 282.82 I shut down and do a cold start, go back to PPL and lo and behold, the clock setting are again the original, not the ones I selected, checked out with 96* and set to "apply" So what am I doing wrong????? |
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AMD introduces 3.2GHz Athlon 64 X2 6400+
Ritter 197 wrote:
I downloaded and installed both programs As far as speed is concerned, they still show the initial settings, not the changed (by me) settings. BTW Hitting F1 does open up a number of things, but nothing thaa llows me to change anything in the BIOS. I think, that after all, I am still operating at the old speeds/clock settings. That is possible. The question is, whether Clockgen supports the 6150LE or not. I don't have any way to determine that. Paul |
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