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need help wit hi5 overclock

Corban227

Corban227

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ok so i just recently checked real temp and realized that my core clocked itself back down to the stock frequencies. my BCLK settings are still the same etcetc under advanced frequncy settings but everything is running at the stock settings. i have no control over changing anything. what do i need to disable to allow for my overclock to be used again?

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i have now been changing settings for quite a while and my clock wont change at all. please help. new to this
 
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Try actually loading the CPU to see if the speeds still stay the same.
 
Yeah, I'm guessing it's some sort of power saving feature too. Is it the multiplier that's decreasing, or the Base clock?
 
It didnt matter what i changed under advanced frequency settings. the multiplier would be at 20 and i had the base clock at 166 and 150 etcetc but no matter what i changed the core clock wont go up. then when i go back to check the settings i inputed and they are still what i entered before i saved and restarted. so its like the mobo is ignoring what im telling it to do. ill try overloading it when i get back to my computer (and assuming the vidcard is going to work for more than 20 seconds).

is there some sort of fail safe that turns on and prevents me from changing anything? like something i have to disable?
also ive heard LLC needs to be disabled becasue it can damage my core. is that only for when your changing voltages or is that a general rule when over clocking?
 
What they were asking is whether you have things like speedstep enabled. If speedstep is enabled, your computer will automatically decrease the multiplier when you aren't loading the cpu. For example, my cpu is set to 191 x 21 in the bios, but because I have speedstep enabled my multiplier drops to 9 when I'm not running anything intensive, so my cpu speed is generally 1.7GHz instead of the 4.0GHz that it jumps to under load. Try running prime95 or intel burn test to get your processor running under 100% load and then see what your clock is at.

Other possibilities that I can think of. When I used to use an Asus motherboard, I installed the Asus software that came with it. This was supposed to help me to change power settings, but I found that I had to set it to some type of performance mode or it would ignore my overclock even though I had specifically set things up in the bios. I believe that Gigabyte has something similar with their Dynamic Energy Saver. Are you running dynamic energy saver 2 software?
 
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i know the power saving settings are on, but even when running prime95 or linx the core clock will only go to 2.8 (with intel turbo) at 100% even though it should be right around 3.5 (with turbo).
i have dynamic energy saver 2 installed but i never run it. is that something that will auto run? if so ill uninstall that when i get back home. if i think back this happened when i tried to get my clock too high with an insufficient voltage. the comp wasn't able to boot and then reset itself to the stock settings. so i put the base clock back down to where i previously had it. it ran fine when i booted my computer but i might have not realized it wasn't running the correct frequency at the time. the thing that tiped me off my clock wasnt running correctly was that my temps were in the 23C range when before with the OC they were in the 33C range

being new to over clocking, gigabyte has quick over clock software. so for starters i used one of the OC settings and checked bios to see how it changed. i did this to get introduced to over clocking and was able to change certain things to what i wanted after. is it possible that by using the software it disabled something that would make the oc be ignored?
 
Just guessing that the Gigabyteme software stored a profile somewhere and is overwriting any bios settings you make as soon as you get into windows. Or something like that.

Uninstall that crap. Then just raise BCLK a bit and see if things start working as God intended.
 
ok well i uninstalled the energy saver, and still nothing. i have full adjustability that takes affect to my ram speed and voltage but the processor clock speed will not increase or decrease, whether i do it manually or through gigabytes "quick boost" software. one very strange thing though is that my vid card is only stable when my base clock speed is set to 166 even though my core wont change to the 3.33 GHz

should i call gigabyte and see what they think?
 
In regards to the video card issue, is the pcie frequency set to 100 or auto? You should probably have it set to 100.

Oh and I'm inclined to say get rid of all gigabyte software like bill said. This means quickboost too. Anything that has the ability to make changes needs to go. As long as it's installed it might be loading a profile that nullifys your settings.
 
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i just checked and i set it to 100 from auto. out of curiosity what did that do and will it fix the major stability issue?

and what about the gigabyte raid configurer? i havent opened it yet but because im new to this i dont know if ill need that for raid later
 
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to post before i go to bed. i uninstalled all the gigabyte programs and ran CCleaner to get all the registry entrys out. no change still in my ability to over clock my processor. would re flashing the bios fix this issue?
 
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