ASUS G73JH and SetFSB

heheh i will give them a try! i runned a 10min stress mode with no crash at 142FSB hmm a light at the end of the tunnel

when i am running CINEBENCH and wprime the Multiplier is fixed at 13 but with Orthos software the multiplier jumps ups a down between 20-23 Orthos software was suggested for overclocking ASUS G51 soo i believe its a good program

 

Wait I apologize I thought your were referring to the IntelBurnTest, doesnt that Orthos software only stress 2 cores? thats why the multipliers are still 20-23, wprime and CINEBENCH stress all of them...however you can set wprime to use any number of threads you want, and CINEBENCH advanced mode to use one core

 

lol i am confused now what should i use?? orthos yes is using 2 cores only... i have to stress all the cores in order to see if my system is stable or not?

ok i have tested CINEBENCH to use all the cores having FSB at 149 and the system dnd crash but setting it at one core the system crash immediately

 

Well normally Id say stressing all the cores should be best yes because it forces the cpu do its maximum tdc/tdp values faster...

Odd lol when i set the slider to 163 (my current highest) it wont crash in quad or single core mode, but if I set it one step higher, 165, it will crash immediately in quad core mode, but not single core mode (but does bsod after a long while)

what about wprime? have your tried your OC in game to see if games will accept it? and are you running CINEBENCH in x64 or x86 mode?

 

i didnt tried it in games yet ... i run it in x64.... ouf i feel tired

I believe I have found a stable one 144FSB i have run the benchmarks CINEBENCH + wPrime without any crash... i play a game without a crash... I have been using the pc now for abou 2-3 hours and nothing strange happened

 

you mean you want to overlock your processor automatically with the values you've changed in Setfsb after restart
i have the free version too with the PLL and i don't need to add it
when i open setFSB automatically G73jh pll is selected i just press get fsb and change the values

 

one folder
latest free version
not instaled
it's like portable

 

Well i tried to overclock my i720qm yest and it went up to 165 and after that it crashed. But since then my laptop keeps freezing after some time even when it is not overclocked(if some sound is playing, the sound wont stop working, it just keeps making a continuous noise, first time have had a crash of this type). I think that 1 freeze over 165 fsb messed it up! ;(

 

@thegr8anand
We have the same model, and i also encountered this problem. What i did is i uninstalled the creative softwares(in my case the stock creative drivers). I then observed, leaving the pc idle for hours and see if it still freeze. It fixed the problem, and i just reinstalled the creative xi-fi found here.

 

Did you have this problem after overclocking? I installed the creative drivers from the g73 reference thread and never had this problem before, only after I used setFSB and crashed for the first time, i started getting these crashes.

 

Yeah, when you up the FSB, it ups EVERYTHING that's attached. So that would cause some instability with the creative software.

 

Ok, i will try as suggested and see if it works. So if I want to overclock later on, i shouldn't use the creative software(x-fi mb in my case)?

 

@thegr8anand maybe some file got corrupted when you oc'ed too much?

How to use CHKDSK (Check Disk) - Windows 7
Check your hard disk for errors

 

Thanks LBJade and DCx. Reinstalling creative software seems to have fixed it. I was worried the cpu got damaged or something.

 

Soooooooo. I decided to cough up some Yen and try out this baby

I punched it to 165 on the slider and im getting 150FSB and its now clocking 1.8ghz-3.00ghz very stable not once problem so far and stressed for a good hour without problems - hits 71oC max.

Any ideas what the limits are for this bad boy? I have repasted and it runs very cool so im willing to throw the dice but would rather not have problems, an extra 200mhz im happy with.

 

How far you can push it depends only on your CPU... 165 is already more than most first gen i7 can achieve... !! To push it harder there's only one way... trial and error, welcome to the BSOD-heaven, hahaha

 

Ill keep it where it is then just ran all benches not one BSOD yet and it idles 48/49 so im happy. Will it cause any negative effects on the turbo mode though etc? cause a decrease in performance?

Well haha I decided to keep pushing it up and got scared at 176 and its running at 1.93ghz now and stable turbo reaches 3.17 - 3.21ghz and it runs at 78oC max been stressing for 20 mins and running fine. Will then bench and update my results.

This could be interesting. Any good software I should run to find my max turbo and hold it? I dont know what settings to use with Prime to do this.

 

When only one core is used, you'll get a reading of 2.8GHz. However, when using prime95 to stress test, it uses all 4 cores, so turbo boost is disabled and it'll run at FSB/BCLK x 12 (where 12 is the maximum multiplier when turbo mode is off for the 720QM). If you get an Extreme Edition processor, you will have unlocked multiplier up to 21, this will let you keep all 4 cores constantly up to 3.x GHz. It's impossible for 720QM to break the 2.0GHz mark when all 4 cores are being used.

 

Yep as I just found out I can run it stable at 1.93ghz amazingly which im very happy with and turbo reaches 3.2ghz I get no issues at all and been stressing it and benching it for an hour and it runs fine.

I needed a little extra oompf and got it no reason for me to get the 920xm now

 

Here you go, Throttlestop, that's the best program to monitor the actual speeds of each thread, it's the only one I know of which is accurate in reporting the clock speeds and multis. You can't really use it for overclocking with your CPU, but it's a great monitoring tool anyway.

Some people reported that when they used setFSB, Intel Turbo Boost wouldn't get active anymore... I can't verify this as I always get Turbo Boost with my CPU, but I guess it's mainly limited by the temps... so if you have higher temps you are less likely to get Turbo Boost.... but as long as you can push your CPU above the levels of Turbo Boost it doesn't really matter anyway.

 

Well I managed to clock her all the way upto 158FSB stable and that runs around 1.9 and turbo's upto 3.2 and sometimes slightly more.

Turbo mode is working normally checked with many tests and also my temps run pretty much the same after an hour stressing with o/c only 71oC max.

However, apart from benchmarking and general editing or video work I see not a gain I see a loss! I have tested 6 games and they all bounce on the frames and in most cases I loose 4-10 FPS. During Dragon Age 2 I would run at a max of 44 FPS stable when o/c the CPU to 158FSB this also ran my RAM at 770 but when I reset it to 133FSB and the norm 666 on the RAM I got 52FPS stable.

Any ideas? Do I need to change something else because it appears although it does benefit out of games and run smooth the timing is not happy when gaming. Is it the turbo mode? Would I see a gain by just running turning turbo mode off and running all 4 cores at the max 1.9ghz?