e8500 and Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R Auto Voltage.

[Pooper]

Hello.
I bought recently an e8500 and a GA P35C DS3R board. Everything seems OK except the auto Vcore settings are a bit dodgy. For some reason the board won't go over 1.22 Volts for CPU when in auto mode. Is there a common problem with this? I flashed my bios from f6 to f10 as with f10 the Vcore wouldn't go over 1.3 with F6. These CPU's can do atleast 4.5GHZ+ with 1.4 but mine will only do 4GHz with 1.4 I know CPU's are all different but there's just too big of a gap. Also when I load up gigabytes 'system information' all of the information is wrong. For starters its pentium 4, not 3. It's 45nm not 65, and the frequency is clearly wrong, so I'm thinking either the bios is wrong or the drivers are.....

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

[fausto412]

there is a new beta bios out, try that. f12e

voltages don't have to be perfect.

if voltages are set to auto then the board will choose for you, the e8500 is a 45nm cpu so it requires less voltage, set it on manual and do 1.45 volts on the cpu...that should net you 1.4 after vdroop when you look in speedfan or cpu-z.

as far as your belief that the cpu should do at least 4.5 ghz, dream on. no overclocking performance is gurranteed. i'm sure you can go higher but you have to have ram that will keep up with a high fsb that you'll need to set in 1:1 ratio. and you'll probably have to bump up mch voltages and others...this will only cut the life of the board shorter so don't push your luck.

you have to overclock within preset safe boundaries.
my preference is to not go past 1.4 volts in bios, 1.36 after vdroop, sure i can go 1.45 and easily reach 3.8 ghz but it doesn't affect performance at all in the real world. most games lately are gpu limited.