Please help my new build

[imported_Jimmie]

Hi

I would be grateful for assistance with my new build, it would appear to be running below normal. It is a E8500 3.16GHz on a Asus P5E3 Deluxe Mobo with OVC 4 x 1GB DDR3 RAM (1333), 850W psu, Vista 64 and 350G HD. Here is a report reading I took with some trial software:-

CPU Properties:
CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
CPU Alias Wolfdale
CPU Stepping C0/M0
Engineering Sample No
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
CPUID Revision 00010676h
Core Voltage 1.1500 V

CPU Speed: 3.16Ghz
CPU Clock 1999.8 MHz
CPU Multiplier 6x
CPU FSB 333.3 MHz (original: 333 MHz)
Memory Bus 666.6 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 20:10

CPU Cache:
L1 Code Cache 32 KB per core
L1 Data Cache
L2 Cache 6 MB (On-Die, ECC, ASC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 65-1109-000001-00101111-031908-Bearlake$A0834081_BIOS DATE: 03/19/08 17:55:48 VER: 08.00.12
Motherboard Name Asus P5E3 Deluxe (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset Intel Beachwood X38
Memory Timings 8-8-8-24 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 03/19/08
Video BIOS Date 07/22/08
DMI BIOS Version 1109

Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter BFG GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB
GPU Code Name G92GTX (PCI Express 2.0 x16 10DE / 0612, Rev A2)
GPU Clock (Geometric Domain) 756 MHz
GPU Clock (Shader Domain) 1890 MHz
Memory Clock 1123 MHz

Any advice would be gratefully accepted along with how to configure this system to optimum/overclock performance.

Many Thanks

Bob

Cornish Peninsula - UK

 

[daveybrat]

Make sure your ram voltage is set to 1.9V in the bios. A lot of motherboards detect it wrong and undervolt it.

 

[DSF]

It's running at 2 GHz because Intel's power savings features are active. There's a sticky in the CPU forum that explains in more detail, and there's also a thorough overclocking guide there.