Disabling VT while overclocking

[blamb425]

Why is this so important? If I leave it on, what will happen? and all the other technologies that should be disabled?

Also, I have an E6300 w/ a ASRock 4-Core mobo. I pushed the FSB for 266 to 292, is this considered safe enough for the computer to last me several years? I've heard that 10% is "safe". I also disabled VT, like THG Guide told me

 

[VirtualLarry]

Disabling VT should have no effect on overclocking. It's C1E and EIST that you need to be concerned with.

 

[acron1]

Hi,
I have an Asus P5B motherboard and I found the entry in the BIOS to disable C1E but I can't find EIST(speed step?) anywhere.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Steve

 

[AllGamer]

i OC with VT on, and all the power saving options on, everything running stable 400 mhz increase from stock, using less voltage than stock 😀 very satisfied

 

[StopSign]

I have VT enabled and it hasn't really affected my overclock. Some poeple disable it to take some stress off the CPU, regardless of how little that load might be.

 

[Cutthroat]

Never made any difference with me, but I have it disabled cause I'm not using it right now. I have used it in the past however with this same OC and it was fine.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: AllGamer
i OC with VT on, and all the power saving options on, everything running stable 400 mhz increase from stock, using less voltage than stock 😀 very satisfied

I OC with all the features on too, but I can explain why Speedstep might be a problem. When idle Speedstep drops the multi and Vcore to save power. On my E6300 it goes from 7x and 1.3v to 6x and 1.162v. If I OC to 3.1GHz at 7x, that means it's running 2.66GHz at 1.162v when Speedstep kicks in. 2.66 might be unstable at such a low Vcore.

If you're worried about that I'd suggest using RMClock to tweak your voltage settings, and up your voltage at 6x.

 

[AllGamer]

oh that's not a problem for me, but the way i compensated to keep SpeedStep enabled, is by upping the voltage in the BIOS, yet still keeping it below factory recommended settings 🙂

My next task is to find yet a better breakthrough to maximize my RAM bandwidth to CPU OC ratio.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

No problem with C1E and EIST enabled with my E4300 (3.46GHz) and E6320 (3.42GHz).