Advice for best possible settings

[kefegg]

Hi guys,

I finally have got my ordered pieces delivered and up and running, but because I'm not a computer wizard I have some doubts about the settings.
Ram, CPU, HDD cache or not, Windows 7 Ultimate, TPU, ...
Anyone have got some idea's or a good reference setup?
OC'ing is not yet really necessary but I did noticed that when I check Asus AI Suite, CPU speed do change a lot.

This is my setup and some settings (coming from Speccy)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63938847@N07/5820607360/



Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz 37 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
8,00 GB DDR3 @ 668MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8P67 PRO (LGA1155)
Graphics
DELL U2311H (1920x1080@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Hard Drives
977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C
977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C
Optical Drives
WD Virtual CD 1110 USB Device
FQBMR PYBWTABGTU7 SCSI CdRom Device
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
Installation Date: 12 June 2011, 22:06
Serial Number: FJGCP-4DFJD-GJY49-VJBQ7-HYRR2
Windows Security Center
User Account Control (UAC) Disabled
Firewall Disabled
Windows Update
AutoUpdate Notify prior to download
Windows Defender
Windows Defender Enabled
TimeZone
TimeZone GMT +1 Hours
Language Dutch
Country België
Currency €
Date Format d/MM/yyyy
Time Format H:mm:ss
Power Profile
Active power scheme Home/Office Desk
Hibernation Disabled
Scheduler
Disabled SidebarExecute

*RAM
Memory slots
Total memory slots 4
Used memory slots 2
Free memory slots 2
Memory
Type DDR3
Size 8192 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 668.9 MHz
CAS# Latency (CL) 9 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 9 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 9 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 24 clocks
Command Rate (CR) 2T
Physical Memory
Memory Usage 27 %
Total Physical 7.98 GB
Available Physical 5.81 GB
Total Virtual 8.00 TB
Available Virtual 8.00 TB
SPD
Number Of SPD Modules 2
Slot #1
Slot #2

*CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K
Cores 4
Threads 4
Name Intel Core i5 2500K
Code Name Sandy Bridge
Package Socket 1155 LGA
Technology 32nm
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model A
Extended Model 2A
Stepping 7
Revision D2
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel 64
Virtualization Supported, Disabled
Hyperthreading Supported, Disabled
Fan Speed 181 RPM
Bus Speed 100.3 MHz
Stock Core Speed 3300 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 100 MHz
Average Temperature 36 °C
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 4 x 32 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 4 x 32 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 4 x 256 KBytes
L3 Unified Cache Size 6144 KBytes


Thanks already

 

[mfenn]

I'm having a hard time understanding what you're asking. The default BIOS settings are fine for most cases.

 

[kefegg]

I'm having a hard time understanding what you're asking. The default BIOS settings are fine for most cases.

Sorry for being unclear: It's like this, for start the manual tell's me to turn on EPU and TPU but I read on forums to do not.
For Ram I can choose auto, 1333 or XMP...

I was wandering if people here, who have a similar system as me, could let me know what setup they run. Because it's pretty much there to setup.
Now everything runs on Auto and I see I get 1.6V for Ram even they are 1.5V Dimms.

And the CPU Speed changes very often from 1345Ghz to 3786Ghz and everything in between. Can I understand that something regulates the CPU power? Faster if needed and more 'ECO' just running a browser and emailclient?

I hope I cleared myself out.

 

[mfenn]

For the memory, sometimes you have to manually set the speed and voltage, so do that.

As for the CPU speed, that range of clock speeds looks like completely normal operation of EIST and Turbo to me. You can go into the Windows power settings and force it to run at a lower speed, but that isn't advised. It actually uses less overall power to ramp up to 3.8GHz, finish the task quickly, and go back to the lowest power state (all cores "off") than it would to run at 1.3GHz constantly.

You'll have to expand EPU and TPU for me.

 

[kefegg]

EPU: http://event.asus.com/epu/
TPU: http://techinstyle.tv/products/explored-asus-tpu-performance-on-p8p67-series-motherboards/

Problem is that when I turn those things on (think green ()) the computer don't boot very well. it starts up, shuts down, reboots... and after some reboots it starts like it should. So I keep it off for now.

I like to have a reliable system that runs max (without damage it) and stay cool and silent.
By the way, thanks for recommend me the Seasonic X560, doesn't make any sound at all. Only thing I here is starting up, some strange 'electric current noise' when playing some games and the fan's from the GPU when the card gets a little hotter. If not gaming... dead silent.

 

[mfenn]

EPU: http://event.asus.com/epu/
TPU: http://techinstyle.tv/products/explored-asus-tpu-performance-on-p8p67-series-motherboards/

Problem is that when I turn those things on (think green ()) the computer don't boot very well. it starts up, shuts down, reboots... and after some reboots it starts like it should. So I keep it off for now.

I like to have a reliable system that runs max (without damage it) and stay cool and silent.
By the way, thanks for recommend me the Seasonic X560, doesn't make any sound at all. Only thing I here is starting up, some strange 'electric current noise' when playing some games and the fan's from the GPU when the card gets a little hotter. If not gaming... dead silent.

Yeah, I would not touch those.

As for the noise, you're probably hearing the VRMs on your GPU whining. It's normal (if a little annoying) and there's not much that you can do about it.