kiriakost & Sweeper
It kinda hurt my technical ego when you said I needed to learn more about my bios.
Thats just not true, I've studdied my own bios inside and out.
Sometimes a forum like this can't really service a persons needs fully but I must give this forum some serious respect because I've enjoyed myself here more than any other place.
You'll be happy to know I did another test in which I clocked up only my video using the auto tune.
Core 720
Memory 950
I experienced a nice 3131 as a score. Like you I have gone back down to default levels for safety.
I do not know the best way to post the image, I realise advice on that has been posted here
but I'm extremely tired and wanted to get back to you very quickly to explain a couple of things.
Watching you tell sweeper not to spend money just for bragging rights was good advice
and it made me feel good to see you care about others in these tuffer financial times.
I can't change my hardware at this time so I would at least like to tell you what is going on inside the system.
What I'm going to explain is that after reading every thread I could find on my situation
it is apparently normal for a 3.0E presscott to dissplay only 2999.9 when checking it with
CPUID and that the user may see the CPU jump to 3000.0 and back down again
or they may see both the CPU and the memory speed both increase for a moment
then go back down.
I'm not the only person to have witnessed the situation many people have
reported it and I also concur that it's normal and that the system is functioning properly.
At this point I can decide to reach for a "system" over-clock.
For anyone reading this be advised that increasing voltage to the cpu should only be
done if you are attempting to gain stability or are attempting an over-clock.
I will probably be defeated by you sweeper as well which would not upset me MUCH