core 2 Quad & speedstep

[Lehm]

Just got a new system with a q9300 on an xfx 780i board. I was looking at the speedstep and it only seems to throttle down to 80%. Is there anyway to further reduce it?

 

[svodka]

can't you disable it?

 

[DSF]

The multiplier can't go any lower than 6. 6 is 80% of the stock 7.5, that's just the way it works.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Nope, problem is the speed step tech is all based on the 6x multi which works well for higher multi chips. But for the Q9300 with the 7.5 mulit it's just not much of a drop.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

How do you like your rig? I'm happy with mine so far, I would like to overclock it a little more but the multi is a little rough on the mobo & fsb

 

[heyheybooboo]

If anything will do it CrystalCPUID or RMClock might give you the best shot.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Lehm
Just got a new system with a q9300 on an xfx 780i board. I was looking at the speedstep and it only seems to throttle down to 80%. Is there anyway to further reduce it?

You can take your FSB down to 200MHz (quad pumped would be 800MHz) and that would further decrease the clockspeed when speedstep kicks in its 6x multi.

It does seem rather annoying that for something intended to only kick-in when a computer is idle they would implement a 6x multi instead of the obvious 1x multi.