(03-16-2014, 11:36 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: So.....what's your question? I don't see anything about performance in here.
Xtreme2damax Wrote:The speed listed in CPU-Z is correct but it isn't maintaining a cosistent core speed of 3.3GHz and bus speed of 330MHz. My core speed is at 3281.01MHz and the bus speed is at 328.10MHz.
That sounds pretty normal. CPUs throttle based on load to save power. Even core 2 generation cpus. Try running something demanding in the background like dolphin.
Even with speed step disabled and a high performance power profile in Windows 7? I found out that my DDR3 can only run at a max of 667MHz with this motherboard although I'm unsure if it's possible to overclock my ram to at least 1066MHz. It seems DDR3 support is terrible on this board, this was actually the worst board to come from Asrock imho back when they were new to the market. I don't have any DDR2 ram lying around to switch out to see if that improves performance.
Not sure if the fact the motherboard only supports PCI-e x16 1.1 would cause such a drastic performance loss. I have more problems with performance in TF2 than any other game.