Overclock E6400 and confused

[jimbofoxman]

Been poking around the various thread, other websites, etc and must say I am still confused. I found an article on Gigabytes Geek Column of the Week about overclocking a GA-965P-DS3. Only difference was that he used a 6800.

Here is what he changed;

CPU Clock Ratio to 8x (mine was on 6x)
CPU Host Clock Control: Enabled
CPU Host Frequency: 400
System Memory Multiplier (SPD): 2

When my machine boots, it tells me it's running a 3.2GHz, but when I view it in CPU-Z like the article author did, it doesn't show 3200 for core speed. So I am confused....

Here is my CPU-Z Readout
CPU Z Picture

Core speed only shows 2400
Multiplier on says 6x, when it does save it as 8x in the BIOS.

Any thoughts? Plus, any good threads out there I should be looking at?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

You have Speedstep enabled in bios, its intels powersaving feature that drops the multi down to 6x when the CPU is not under load. If you leave CPUz open and launch a cpu intense app you will see it go back to 8x 3.2ghz. You can disable this feature in bios

 

[TC91]

if it is running stably, i would leave speedstep on to conserve power and lower idle temps. speedstep automatically throttles the cpu back up if you are stresssing it anyways.