It is always nice to that you replies. thanks
an overclocking guide on this site says, you have to adjust ( increase/decrease slowly ) vcore and RAM voltage too in combination with higher operating frequencies. only upping freqs will not work.
another general question !
Q.1 a board which provides much flexibility in tweaking freqs / volts individually for various components, will it withstand / stable with those extra boosting ?
I know it depends on board quality, but still, will boosting not increase chances of failure / unstability in general?
I mean MTF mean time between failure, would not reduce by overclocking?
( fail early and more prone to faults.)
on my mobo, I initially left everything for tweaking set to AUTO as it was by default but after reading that guide:
Keep PCI express : MANUAL at 100MHZ
Keep PCI clock freq: Manual 33.33 MHZ ( I could not find on my BIOS )
they vary proportionally with FSB / other tweaks, while they should be as above.
so keep them fixed initially.
Keep C1E : Disable
Keep speedstep: Disable
and similar ....
and most of the things I still kept AUTO
I didn't plan overclock yet, BUT YEAH i see a noticeable difference in performance,by just doing above.
so I believe 'AUTO' was not selecting right parameteres for at least those things which I changed as above.
I did'nt planned overclocking yet, not have good cooliing solution yet. later
so
Q.2 Is it possible that other parameters like FSB, CPU freq, Vcore ( now still AUTO ) might also not be on standard factory parameters and would perform better if I keep them on some MANUAL but standard ( no boost ) values ?
Q.3 If a system performs quite well and stable after overclocked, Why manufacturers not send us overclocked already ? Intel seems not much liking overclocking on its system ( does'nt provide free hand on their boards), so do all branded systems.
- This is my first experience with ASUS mobo, a P5QL PRO and it seems on their products yeah they care about overclockers desires. But certain utilities does'nt leave a professional impression. like ASUS utility PC-PROBE-II, such a bad human infterface, .... I found a regular green two pin LED on this boards, can ASUS not spent a penny on surface mount LEDs while soldering all those surface mounts microships. unprofessional to me, and color of board, greyish red, not really attractive. quality of connectors/sockets reasonable, but not that nice.
Well these are my thoughts,
this might not be the right forum for it,
forgot to ask
Q How can I see what is the current value for a parameter when it is set to AUTO, i-e even at AUTO somwhere in same BIOS menu, it must show 'currently at:........'
Better to ask this from ASUS, but who cares there.
Q. I did'nt use any utility specially no utlity for hardware fan/temp monitor from ASUS. all bogus. Is there a good free utility which is professional enough,
any good win7 gadget. I searched. show things visually like speedo meters, intel desktop utility is for their boards only.