To speedstep or not to speedstep ?

[Dicehunter]

So I noticed when I have speedstep on I get random little freezes because the clock speed has dropped for a second down quite low.

Now when I have have speedstep disabled this never happens and temps are literally 1-2'c higher at full clocks etc...

Is it safe to have it disabled or should I re-enable it ?

I know I should know this by now but I've never really used SS.

 

[Cru]

you generally disable it when overclocking

 

[Dicehunter]

you generally disable it when overclocking

Do you always leave it disabled ?

I thought that might shorten the chips lifespan ?

 

[SuB]

I thought that might shorten the chips lifespan ?

Kind of the whole 'negative' side of overclocking dude.

Leave it off if you're OC'ing at all And if you OC you need to accept it will likely shorten the life of the chip

 

[Kei]

Never had any issues with speedstep or the amd equivalent. (cool 'n' quiet) That's with all of my cpu's running overclocks. C states have caused me a few issues so i always turn them off. (huge jump in dpc latency vs off) Unparking the cores also helped to smooth things out a bit too on my 4820k, never tried it on my phenom but i think it would have improved things there too.

 

[Josh Weston]

I've always turned mine off. Couldn't deal with the added issues.

 

[tinytomlogan]

turn it off, if you want to save a polar bear plant a tree

 

[Dicehunter]

turn it off, if you want to save a polar bear plant a tree

I'd prefer to shoot the polar bear, Have a nice rug and chop down the tree to use as fire wood ^_^

 

[tinytomlogan]

I'd prefer to shoot the polar bear, Have a nice rug and chop down the tree to use as fire wood ^_^

deffo dont need speedstep then