So I have waited this long, a little more, or go with what I had in mind?

[Burpo]

I've never tried to do what you're doing. Make sure C States is enabled & give it a shot.

 

[ithehappy]

I've never tried to do what you're doing. Make sure C States is enabled & give it a shot.

Okay thanks. I'm trying stuffs, LOL. Disabled that SpeedStep thing. Wanted to disable the Turbo Boost thing too, but can't find it!

Could you tell me one thing, how to save a profile in BIOS? I have tried to do that a lot of times, even have a name to a profile previously but no idea where those are saved, if they were saved at all.

 

[Burpo]

Enable SpeedStep & don't worry about saving profiles.

https://www.manualowl.com/m/Asus/SABERTOOTH-X58/Manual/263096?page=94

 

[ithehappy]

I kind of need that actually. I mean continuously changing stuffs will be a huge annoyance for me. Anyway, will do a Google search on that.

So after all this, I can see a power drop of ~25 watts. It was 170W before and now its around 145W.

I am staying with this settings, CPU is running at 2.0 GHz, RAMs are at 1200 MHz, at 1.0 V. SpeedStep enabled and that's it.

 

[Burpo]

From page 94 of the owners manual & link I posted..
"In the Name sub-item, key in your profile name and press , and then choose a profile number to save your CMOS settings in the Save to sub-item."

 

[ithehappy]

Okay will try that, thanks for mentioning.

 

[ClockHound]

I kind of need that actually. I mean continuously changing stuffs will be a huge annoyance for me. Anyway, will do a Google search on that.

So after all this, I can see a power drop of ~25 watts. It was 170W before and now its around 145W.

I am staying with this settings, CPU is running at 2.0 GHz, RAMs are at 1200 MHz, at 1.0 V. SpeedStep enabled and that's it.

145W at idle?!? That's not the idle we slackers are familiar with.

 

[ithehappy]

145W at idle?!? That's not the idle we slackers are familiar with.

Yes, of course at IDLE. Cut around 20 watts from that because of UPS. So around 125W isn't that bad I guess, for an old 45nm chip.

 

[ClockHound]

Guess so for 45nm, but us newer 32nm slackers can be slacker with less power.

If you can get a cheap 5650 or 5660, you can knock off another 30-45W at idle. Plus get much more performance when not idle.

 

[ithehappy]

Yeah, I suppose. But I am holding off from the Xeon at this moment. I will keep this damn CPU for another three or four months and then move to a new system totally. Whatever will be available then. However I am unsure the DDR4 crazy prices will be settled down by then, well...there is a limit of waiting anyway.

 

[scannall]

Yeah, I suppose. But I am holding off from the Xeon at this moment. I will keep this damn CPU for another three or four months and then move to a new system totally. Whatever will be available then. However I am unsure the DDR4 crazy prices will be settled down by then, well...there is a limit of waiting anyway.

DDR4 has already come down quite a bit in the last 6-9 months. It will likely still cost more than DDR3 for a while. But it should be close enough.