Nate152 wrote:
Hi Saintfurion

Yep, NB frequency is the uncore = cpu cache.

It's normal for the board to overvolt the cpu at default settings.

Try setting your ram manually, after saving and exiting go back in the bios and check the CPU VCCIO voltage and CPU System Agent voltage, these will likely overvolted as well. For your configuration, anywhere from 1.15v - 1.25v should be enough for both.

Saintfurion wrote:
Sorry to beat this dead horse...but is the NB frequency reported on CPU-Z the same as the cache speed?

When I set XMP, the BIOS reports the Target Cache Frequency as 4500 mhz, CPU-Z reports the NB frequency as the same.

When I manually enter my RAM settings, the BIOS reports Target Cache at 4700 mhz, but CPU-Z reports the NB frequency as 4100 mhz.

To make it even more confusing (for me), I have noticed that regardless of whether I pick XMP or Manual...if BCLK is set to Auto, then the Target Cache frequency in the BIOS reads 4700, but 4100 in CPU-Z. If the BCLK is entered as 100, then the bios reads 4500, and 4500 in CPU-Z. Which makes no sense to me since Auto is 100 for the BCLK anyways. But this one setting seems to change the Cache Frequency and also slightly increases the CPU System Agent Voltage.

I'm lost!


EDIT: And to be perfectly clear...I am not trying to squeeze out extra performance from the RAM...just want it to run at the advertised speeds of 3200 and CL14....which it does, but the whole Cache/NB frequency stuff is confusing me.

Phillyflyer wrote:
What bios version are you using ?

Saintfurion wrote:
1401

I suppose setting BCLK manually to 100 seems to make the BIOS think you are about to do some BCLK overclocking and it automatically ups your vcore to like 1.36 or something.

Again, not a big deal as most of us will dial in voltages anyways.

Anybody know why the NB frequency/uncore/cache frequency that CPU-Z reports is sometimes different than what the BIOS reports?