Hi guys, new poster to the forum. Like gaming but really a novice when it comes to PCs, software or hardware.
Recently upgraded from old M4*LT-M series mobo to a sabertooth, which I have a 1100T BE Phenom (Thuban) stuck to it and cooled by an Antec Kuhler liquid jobber in a spanking new NXZT phantom case.
Everything works fine, however I reckon there is some tweaking to be done, as I'm still running my Phenom at 3.3ghz and my lovely Corsair vengence RAM is still sat at 1333mhz despite the fact it is actually Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 RAM. (8 gig in total in two slots).
Could someone please at least point me at the optimal normal settings in my bios for normal gaming use, before I look at overclocking?
I am not at all confident with manipulating the bios and to be honest I am concerned I will cook or kill something messing with it.
For starters, I read on the web in various areas that it is best to disable the TURBO CORE function as it monkeys with the system too much. What does this do and what is the effect of disabling it?
Second, what the heck is 'cool and quiet' and am I best to disable this? If so what do I need to be aware of?
Lastly, I read that the default bios setting for RAM is EEC mode, and it is best to disable this immediately. Is this ok?
So, thats that, anything else I need to be aware of or change? The bios on this mobo is supposed to be user friendly but it confuses the hell out of me. I have CPU-Z and the hardware monitor installed so I can give you results from all this etc.
System is also includes 750W Corsair PSU, Palit GTX 580, running windows 7 64 bit, just a regular mechanical WD 1TB HDD. Nothing else. Will shortly be adding an Asus sound card to this, the cheap one.
Many thanks, sorry if I have asked 'bone' questions as I said I am completely new to this, I was mostly an Xbox 360 player until last year and this is my first from scratch build really, never opened a computer case up except when upgrading my old rig earlier this year.
Recently upgraded from old M4*LT-M series mobo to a sabertooth, which I have a 1100T BE Phenom (Thuban) stuck to it and cooled by an Antec Kuhler liquid jobber in a spanking new NXZT phantom case.
Everything works fine, however I reckon there is some tweaking to be done, as I'm still running my Phenom at 3.3ghz and my lovely Corsair vengence RAM is still sat at 1333mhz despite the fact it is actually Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 RAM. (8 gig in total in two slots).
Could someone please at least point me at the optimal normal settings in my bios for normal gaming use, before I look at overclocking?
I am not at all confident with manipulating the bios and to be honest I am concerned I will cook or kill something messing with it.
For starters, I read on the web in various areas that it is best to disable the TURBO CORE function as it monkeys with the system too much. What does this do and what is the effect of disabling it?
Second, what the heck is 'cool and quiet' and am I best to disable this? If so what do I need to be aware of?
Lastly, I read that the default bios setting for RAM is EEC mode, and it is best to disable this immediately. Is this ok?
So, thats that, anything else I need to be aware of or change? The bios on this mobo is supposed to be user friendly but it confuses the hell out of me. I have CPU-Z and the hardware monitor installed so I can give you results from all this etc.
System is also includes 750W Corsair PSU, Palit GTX 580, running windows 7 64 bit, just a regular mechanical WD 1TB HDD. Nothing else. Will shortly be adding an Asus sound card to this, the cheap one.
Many thanks, sorry if I have asked 'bone' questions as I said I am completely new to this, I was mostly an Xbox 360 player until last year and this is my first from scratch build really, never opened a computer case up except when upgrading my old rig earlier this year.