E8500 3.4 taking 35 secs on 1M

[ggammage]

This SuperPI things has got me scratching whats left of my hair.

I have an E8500 running at 3.4, and when running Super_PI_Mod is taking 35 seconds to calc 1M....... this seems rather long ????

Any thoughts ??

[The Shooter]

You were screwed by your trader?:D
Try to end some processes but still I dont think it will help much.
Maybe a fresh OS?

[Viss]

Chipset drivers etc all installed? Should take less then half the time to do 1M at those clocks.

[ggammage]

I have 4 versions of Vista installed, will try another version, see how it goes.... Did have the E8500 running at 3.73 and got a 13sec time..... ho hum.

[ggammage]

whats the max that your had your E8500 running at on air ??

[koda]

Maybe you can try to change your SATA cable (if your HD is SATA).

[ggammage]

Change the SATA cables, could that be effecting it ??

[chris.y2k.r1]

I've heard of this problem before and the board goes into lip home mode at a certain point (To protect the north bridge) and throttles the FSB back. I betcha you aren't actually running that fast. Something is clocking back.

[koda]

Change the SATA cables, could that be effecting it ??

I already had a "slow rig" due to a bad sata cable (very very bad I/O disk performance).
Just try it if you got another one ... it's easy and fast !

[yankee]

go into msconfig and choose diagnostic mode. that should eliminate your vista install as the problem.

what are your voltages, ram freq and timings?

[TheKarmakazi]

I had my 8400 @ 4600 on winter air (about -5*C), and my e8500 last week at around 4.5 with a TRUE. Just be careful of your voltage, thats what will mess things up. If you set FSB too high it just wont boot.