Topic: New computer lots of questions....

[Church-Audio]

So I got my self a new computer.. Well parts.. I built it my self.

I had a Pentium extreme D 3.0 ghz

Now I have an I5 2500K and an Asus p8z68-v mother board with 8 gigs of ram.

I dont want to overclock because I dont need more than the 3.3 mhz of speed this cpu provides.
It does have a turbo boost option of 3.7ghz.

My question is with this bios how to I lock the speed at 3.7ghz or would I be better off just running at 3.3 ghz?


This bios has so many settings its confusing to even me. I am not a total computer knob but I have never built an i series computer before. Any help would be great.

[adrianf74]

This bios has so many settings its confusing to even me. I am not a total computer knob but I have never built an i series computer before. Any help would be great.

I believe the way the "boost" works is that it normally runs at 3.3ghz and then "boosts" to 3.7ghz if you're doing a task that requires/can utilize it.  I don't see any benefit to locking the core speed, really.   In fact, I can't remember if it's possible.

Which company is the BIOS from (for starters)?

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Exactly. No need to do anything in the BIOS. At least in regards to the CPU.

I like to turn off anything on the motherboard that I won't be using in the BIOS (Parallel ports, etc), just to speed up the boot times.

[anr]

I have a different Asus MB, but the same Turboboost system.   I found that once you run Turboboost and it decides on a "stable" setting, it stays at that setting unless you disable it. 

However, I think your first instinct is correct.  Stick to 3.3GHz.  It'll still go like sh!t off a hot shovel.

[Church-Audio]

Thanks to all that sent me info. As far as who makes the bios, I think its Asus. I know about the other companies AMI and I forget the other guy. But I dont think these guys did it.

[adrianf74]

Thanks to all that sent me info. As far as who makes the bios, I think its Asus. I know about the other companies AMI and I forget the other guy. But I dont think these guys did it.

ASUS would be the mainboard (motherboard) manufacturer.  They have some of the better boards out there (I have one, myself, and it's rock solid.  I tried Gigabyte and MSI in my most recent build but they constantly failed).  AMI is your BIOS manufacturer.   You can probably just leave your system on "stock" settings and be fine.   You'll like the new build, I'm sure.

[Church-Audio]

Thanks to all that sent me info. As far as who makes the bios, I think its Asus. I know about the other companies AMI and I forget the other guy. But I dont think these guys did it.

ASUS would be the mainboard (motherboard) manufacturer.  They have some of the better boards out there (I have one, myself, and it's rock solid.  I tried Gigabyte and MSI in my most recent build but they constantly failed).  AMI is your BIOS manufacturer.   You can probably just leave your system on "stock" settings and be fine.   You'll like the new build, I'm sure.

Its so much faster... Now I can answer emails at lighting speed! lol... And of course the audio analyzing software is happy too at 64 bit with 8 gigs of ram its fast. Just put in a black label western digital drive and it smokes sata 3. I was thinking about solid state for my OS but I hear lots of horror stories.

[H₂O]

My P67 MiniATX ASUS uses AMI bios as does my ASrock mini-ITX Z68.  They look almost identical with just different coloring - MB manufacturers buy BIOS from AMI, Award, etc and then customize it and release there own versions (i.e. ASUS Bios should not work on a ASRock board, etc).

Both manufacturer's have Windows based BIOS updater's you can DL from there respective web sites - just look up you motherboard on the Manufacturer's website and select the downloads tab and DL the Windows BIOS updater.

I have found that my ASUS board will automatically try and overclock on default settings (I have a i7-2600k) and it is a bit aggressive - since I have a stock cooler I was experiencing system crashes under default settings.  Also recently using 3-4 different MB's my experience is that you can almost garuantee that the BIOS will incorrectly setup the memory speed/timing - more and more memory manufacturers are using XMP (which automatically sets up the correct standard params) memory but the BIOS typically does not lock on this by default and either goes too aggressive or is wrong.  So you may need to set the memory speed to "XMP Profile 1" and back off on the clock multiplier ratio for the CPU (my ASUS board tried to run at 42x multiplier when Turbo Boost should be at 36x).

If you bought the system pre built I would hope whom ever you bought it from would have gone in and made sure these issues have been taken care of.

[Church-Audio]

My P67 MiniATX ASUS uses AMI bios as does my ASrock mini-ITX Z68.  They look almost identical with just different coloring - MB manufacturers buy BIOS from AMI, Award, etc and then customize it and release there own versions (i.e. ASUS Bios should not work on a ASRock board, etc).

Both manufacturer's have Windows based BIOS updater's you can DL from there respective web sites - just look up you motherboard on the Manufacturer's website and select the downloads tab and DL the Windows BIOS updater.

I have found that my ASUS board will automatically try and overclock on default settings (I have a i7-2600k) and it is a bit aggressive - since I have a stock cooler I was experiencing system crashes under default settings.  Also recently using 3-4 different MB's my experience is that you can almost garuantee that the BIOS will incorrectly setup the memory speed/timing - more and more memory manufacturers are using XMP (which automatically sets up the correct standard params) memory but the BIOS typically does not lock on this by default and either goes too aggressive or is wrong.  So you may need to set the memory speed to "XMP Profile 1" and back off on the clock multiplier ratio for the CPU (my ASUS board tried to run at 42x multiplier when Turbo Boost should be at 36x).

If you bought the system pre built I would hope whom ever you bought it from would have gone in and made sure these issues have been taken care of.

No I built it my self. I am using a thermaltake bach case with 2 3" fans and one 4" and a ATI Radeon HD 5700 dual digital video card. Running into two 23 inch monitors. I am using standard kingston ram. The clock on the CPU is at 4324 Mhz And it seems
 stable. This mother board has DigiVRM what ever that is lol.  The computer seems ok the processor is running at 43.0c the mb is running at 29.0c.