Unlocked E6600?

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

Has anyone figured this out yet? I am at my max of 380x9 with stock chipset cooling. Here is a picture of my bios that looks like it can be changed but I cant get it to work.

Link to picture

Edit - WTF? I cant change my profile!! ??
Anyways, here is what I have:

ASUS P5W64 WS Professional
E6600
OCZ EL DDR2 PC2-8000 (2x1GB)
Areca ARC-1280 soon <-
4 x WD 500GB
20 x Maxtor 300GB
More soon

 

[Shimmishim]

link to picture?

also what stepping e6600 do you have?

 

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

Fixed.

I dont know what stepping I have. Ill look when I go home in a few hours.

 

[Polish3d]

Can you give more info on this?

 

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

What info are you looking for?


What FSB are you running at to get 3.71? 412? Thats crazy high.

 

[n7]

Just because the bios shows higher multis doesn't mean your chip can use them

Your E6600 is locked @ 9 or lower like all the others.

 

[lopri]

So you can't punch in 10 instead of 9 for the ratio? Swap the keyboard and try again. Report back with the exact stepping along with the revision info of the board.

 

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

wow.. not much help I see. If they are locked, why would the bios claim that it is unlocked? You can set it to anything from 6-20. SL9S8 Rev 1.01G with the latest bios

 

[krotchy]

If I remember correctly, the core 2's were supposed to be locked from having their multiplier moved up and down. Aparently Asus was the first to figure out how to get it to go down, maybe the motherboard lets you pick a multiplier and the chip will comply, only up to its max multiplier. So the motherboard just lets you pick any multiplier in the bios, but it will only actually save a setting that its capible of working with?

 

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

Yes, you an use anything from 6-9. I dont understand why the bios would say "unlocked" if it was not.

 

[Shimmishim]

have you tried booting up at 10 x 266 for example? or 11 x 266.

this would be a sure fire way of knowing.

 

[theorignalAMD Overclocker]

Sigh.. Just wondering.. why would I post a thread asking why it doesnt work if it would have worked?

 

[Maximilian]

Well looking at the pic, the mobo is referring to you being able to change the multiplier via the bios. Dosent mean the chip is unlocked, my epox 9npa had a similar setting for cpu ratio control, the options were enable or disable, it could easily have been locked or unlocked. Either way the chip wont go above 9. Its just the way the bios had worded it.

 

[FireChicken]

NM

 

[ScythedBlade]

To that guy about the ASUS comment:

No, Gigabyte was the first one to have it unlocked downwards. Anandtech had falsely (but they fixed it in a revision) said that ASUS was the first to find how to downward multiply it.