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Okay so I've just got into using the Intel Burn Test for stability testing and for a control test I returned everything to stock in my bios and ran IBT with stress level on maximum. I plan to change settings and continue to run the exact same IBT, so I have some numbers to work off of. Anyway, the stock settings test came back perfectly stable and resulted in a consistent 36 Gflops. I then went into bios and set the ASUS auto-OC thingy to do a default 10% increase, leaving everything else on auto - I just wanted to see the results as a comparison to stock. Basically in this setting it puts the FSB up by 10%, so it went from 3GHz to 3.3GHz, and because everything else is left on 'auto', the motherboard decided to increase the volts to a stupid 1.5~! The RAM is overclocked slightly to 736 from 667 (timings stay the same), and the NB Frequency + HT Link are moved up 10% to 2200MHz - I assume the NB voltage and RAM voltages are adjusted as well? But I can't be sure as CPU-Z doesn't tell me those numbers. Either way, it doesn't matter what they've all been changed to because after running IBT on maximum stress the test finished with perfect stability - good news, right? Well not entirely, because for some reason the Gflops were consistently at 24 now?!? I thought this seemed very odd because doesn't that just mean that the CPU is massively slower now, even though it's overclocked by 10%...??
Am I interpreting this wrong, or has the OC actually made everything slower? Again, it was just a default 10% OC, where the motherboard picked all of the settings - everything runs consistently and fully stable, but apparently the CPU is 12 Gflops slower! What gives?
Can anyone shine any light on the matter for me? Or some insight perhaps? Anything really that might explain this result! Thanks!
Am I interpreting this wrong, or has the OC actually made everything slower? Again, it was just a default 10% OC, where the motherboard picked all of the settings - everything runs consistently and fully stable, but apparently the CPU is 12 Gflops slower! What gives?
Can anyone shine any light on the matter for me? Or some insight perhaps? Anything really that might explain this result! Thanks!
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