Q.1) If a system performs quite well and stable after overclocked, Why manufacturers not send overclocked already ? Intel seems not much liking overclocking on its system ( does'nt provide free hand on their boards), so do all branded systems.
Q.2) when 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
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.
Q.3) Is it possible that other parameters like FSB, CPU freq, Vcore ( now still AUTO with me ) might not be on standard factory parameters and would perform better if I keep them on some MANUAL but standard ( no boost ) values ?
Q 4) How can I see what is the current value for a parameter when it is set to AUTO, i-e at AUTO value just shows 'AUTO', not what value is right now. any way to see current value? Better to ask this from ASUS, but who cares there.
Q.5) 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, could show things visually like speedo meters, intel desktop utility is for their boards only.
Q.2) when 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
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.
Q.3) Is it possible that other parameters like FSB, CPU freq, Vcore ( now still AUTO with me ) might not be on standard factory parameters and would perform better if I keep them on some MANUAL but standard ( no boost ) values ?
Q 4) How can I see what is the current value for a parameter when it is set to AUTO, i-e at AUTO value just shows 'AUTO', not what value is right now. any way to see current value? Better to ask this from ASUS, but who cares there.
Q.5) 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, could show things visually like speedo meters, intel desktop utility is for their boards only.