Is my CPU underclocked?

dave1701

dave1701

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I just built an obsilite computer, and I'm glad to see it's come togeather.(I'm posting from it.) I use Everest Home to look at my computer and it says It's only running at 1.4 mhz when it's supposed to be a 2.8 ghz CPU. Everest says support sidestep, but it does say it's using "automatic clock control".

Here's what everest says:
--------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc. ]------------------------------------------------------------



--------[ Overclock ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU Properties:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4
CPU Alias Northwood, A80532
CPU Stepping D1
Engineering Sample No
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
CPUID Revision 00000F29h

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1413.89 MHz (original: 2800 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 14.0x
CPU FSB 100.99 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
Memory Bus 134.66 MHz

CPU Cache:
L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions
L1 Data Cache 8 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, ATC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 03/02/2004-I845GV-6A69ZG0AC-00
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8I845GV(-C) (3 PCI, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845GV
Memory Timings 2.5-3-3-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)

SPD Memory Modules:
DIMM1: CT12864Z335.M16TFY 1 GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 03/02/04
Video BIOS Date 06/11/20
Award BIOS Type Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message GA-8I845GV F3E TC
DMI BIOS Version 6.00 PG

Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter Intel 82845G/GL/GV Graphics Controller
GPU Code Name Brookdale-G (Integrated 8086 / 2562, Rev 03)
GPU Clock 200 MHz

What do you think?
 
Does it have enough juice to just change the speeds? It's doubleing the speed will i need to change the voltage?
 
Update: I just tried changing the FSB speed to 200. It died and I had to clear CMOS. Any Idea what the heck is going on?
 
That board doesn't officially support that CPU, or any 800 FSB cpu's actually which is why is underclocks.

If this link works-

http://ee.giga-byte.com/products/mb/cpulist/ga-8i845gv-c.html


All the cpu's with ''N/A'' beside them means they aren't supported.

Try 133mhz FSB, which is 533 (the highest supported FSB). Atleast you'll have 1.9ghz then. Or you can try 166mhz for 2.3ghz, but the board most likely just has a FSB wall in there somewhere before 200.
 
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Thanks. I couldn't find any info on that board. Mabey I can put my 2.4ghz P4 in there. I think that'l work. I got that 2.8 because it's better. Darn.

Also, If I've got decent cooling, could I perhaps overclock that 2.4 allitle?
 
Whats the 2.4? A 533 FSB?

Try overclocking your current chip to 166mhz FSB speed first, thats 2.3ghz anyway.
 
yea the 2.4 is 533 fsb. I got the 2.8 up to 164 mhz but I think that's the max.

Also, does this motherboard support hyper threading technology?
 
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Update: I just put in the 2.4 and accidently overclocked it to almost 2.8 ghz fine, so I put the FSB back to 100 in bios and it's still overclocked by 2 %. Is 2% gonna shorten the life of my processor?
 
^ Yea, but Not much at all. Plus its a cheap proc, if it breaks in a year, spend 15 bucks, get a new one.lol
 
my pc does this it is because you have ht (hyper threading) on so everest sees the p4 as two cores (logical) which spilts the speed in half hence two cores at 1.4 ghz

edit: sorry it looks the other way round it appears you have ht off, if you enable it in the bios you will then have the two logical cores mentioned above.
 
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So what happened to the motherboard not supporting the CPU? I do remember seeing that hyperthreading was disabled in everest.
 
I downloaded the Bios update thing, but I've never done this before. I don't know how. It opened up something called flash update utility. I'm really confused. What do I do?
 
OK once you download the Bios, put it on your desktop. Extract the files (by just double clicking on it), and 3 files should come up on your desktop. The main one you need is the one that will say F5 on the end of it you can delete the rest. Restart your computer, enter the Bios (which is usually the delete or F2 button). Hit F8 to enter the Q-Flash utility. Select ''update Bios from drive'', select you hard drive and hit enter, and then it will give a list of stuff, just find the F5 document and hit enter. It will ask you if you're sure, just hit enter again and it will do it's thing.
 
Thanks for your help. I went to update and it said "filesize incorrect" or something like that. It says it needs the 4mb Bios file. I didn't see a 4mb one though. Its not on the website.
 
I didn't see a hyper threadingg option in my current bios. I think this wants a .bin file.
 
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It might need the updated bios to support HT.

No it's the right type of file, or else it wouldn't even show up in the Qflash utility. Just wrong size, which is strange.
It's only a 256kb bios file, why it's calling for 4mb I have no idea.

Where are you located at? You wouldn't happen to be in PA would you???
 
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