Thanks Edrick for the info. So when you talk about setting Vcore to get a certain value, do you mean the figure in the BIOS or the resulting figure as reported by CPU-Z before or after Vdroop?
And I see that in the "PC Health Status" page of the BIOS there is another Vcore voltage again...
Thank-you for your replies. They have been most informative. I read those articles on FSB and memory thanks lopri, although a little heaving going in places.
I have decided to lower the OC to 3600MHz for the E8500 which allows me to set the VCore in the BIOS to "Normal" rather than the...
I have a Gigabyte motherboard (X38-DQ6) which officially supports a FSB of up to 400 MHz (although it can easily and reliably go as high as 475 MHz). So setting the FSB to 400 MHz means that my Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 which normally runs at 333MHz is overclocked and with a multiplier of 9.5...
OK, so I have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 RTM, specifically:
7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD.ISO
It runs a treat, but I have a few questions...
1. Is this version identical with the retail version that will be released shortly...
Try that again!
I had restart issues with this board when I disabled the LAN from within windows but left it enabled in the BIOS. The PC would look like it was going to shutdown but never got there. Had to turn it off by holding the power button for 4 seconds. I discovered the hard way...
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