Core 2 Duo E6600
2x1 Corsair XMS2 PC6400
P5W DH
3x320 Seagate 7200.10 (2 in RAID 0)
ASUS 6800 something....
Hey...
Not a serious OC'er, but tried it for the heck of it....with such a nice board it would almost be a shame not to.
Decided to go down the 'safe' route to begin with and chose the 10% OC option in the BIOS. That worked fine and soon afterwards I was encoding a DVD and running Prime95 stress test at 30% plus. Also no problems and the processor was at 3.12Ghz. The processor got a bit hotter, 43 degrees I think, but the motherboard stayed at 45 degrees...that was what I was most worried about, because it started out by giving a warning when I installed the PC probe.
However, then something funny happened. I was satisfied that about 3Ghz was feasible without any effort really and I started to surf the web and my windows internet explorer started to behave funnily. Crashing and closing without warning...and only sometimes. This continued as I tried clock myself backwards to get out of problems. At stock speed it still behaved funnily. I think I corrupted IE by overclocking the processor....but why on earth would that happen when both DVD encoding, scrolling pictures at high speed, running Prime95 stress test went without a hitch? Anybody experienced the same problem?
Think I will have to reinstall IE. But what a shame, would have like to run the CPU at 3 GHZ.
Cheers,
Philip
2x1 Corsair XMS2 PC6400
P5W DH
3x320 Seagate 7200.10 (2 in RAID 0)
ASUS 6800 something....
Hey...
Not a serious OC'er, but tried it for the heck of it....with such a nice board it would almost be a shame not to.
Decided to go down the 'safe' route to begin with and chose the 10% OC option in the BIOS. That worked fine and soon afterwards I was encoding a DVD and running Prime95 stress test at 30% plus. Also no problems and the processor was at 3.12Ghz. The processor got a bit hotter, 43 degrees I think, but the motherboard stayed at 45 degrees...that was what I was most worried about, because it started out by giving a warning when I installed the PC probe.
However, then something funny happened. I was satisfied that about 3Ghz was feasible without any effort really and I started to surf the web and my windows internet explorer started to behave funnily. Crashing and closing without warning...and only sometimes. This continued as I tried clock myself backwards to get out of problems. At stock speed it still behaved funnily. I think I corrupted IE by overclocking the processor....but why on earth would that happen when both DVD encoding, scrolling pictures at high speed, running Prime95 stress test went without a hitch? Anybody experienced the same problem?
Think I will have to reinstall IE. But what a shame, would have like to run the CPU at 3 GHZ.
Cheers,
Philip