salgado18 :
I agree. I'll use the tighter memory settings until I see the system crashes the first time, then I'll relax them, probably to stock level. If it never crashes, I won't need to "unclock" it.
And I know that CPU and GPU performance are the most important for games for example, but they're not worth overclocking right now. One is very limited by motherboard, and the other is still enough for me. But thanks for the advice!
So you bought a high performance car last week and the manual says you'd better use 92 octane gas or you'll be sorry. You put 87 in because it's so much cheaper. You fill that tank full and nothing happens, you do it for a few months with no ill effects. Suddenly your nice new car is in the repair shop, and they're telling you "Haha. You didn't put 92 octane gasoline in your car, did you?". So if you are gonna wait till you break something that's BAD logic.
I work in nuclear power. Do you want to know what would happen if I decided to use my infinite amounts of engineering skills and prowess to push the limits on metals because 'it hasn't failed yet'? I'll tell you one thing. If even one person doing my job thought as ignorantly as you, I'm sure there's thousands, if not millions, of lives that will never forget that day, because it just might be their last...
Sure, this is an extreme example, but it really scares me how many people want to push the envelope for little or no benefit, and say "I'll lower it if/when it crashes". I'm not talking just about computers and cars. I'm talking about everything. People writing checks because 'they won't clear until Friday', the 'I'm gonna ignore the manufacturers recommendations for gasoline', and 'I know that the brake system on my car will work just as well with brake fluid as it will with water'(Yes, I know someone that does this, and I'm just waiting for him to die in a crash because his brakes suddenly didn't work). I could write 50 examples right now, but I'm sure this forum gets the point. Unfortunately if you burn out your components, you'll go crying that company x has bad products, you'll get it RMAed and buy new. Who just paid for that new MB you got because you were too ignorant to know better? ME! I'll pay extra at the checkout because YOU didn't follow simple directions like "Use as directed.".
Bottom line: Your logic is terribly flawed, and I hereby will question all motives you have when posting. You, sir, scare the **** out of me and I hope you don't live in my city. Read my signature and eat it!
(BTW.. do you use Microsoft Windows for an OS? Of course you do, look at your screenshots! It WILL crash. I guarantee that. And do you have the expertise to KNOW whether it was your RAM that cause it or another component? NO! I bet there's less than 10 peopleon this whole forum that have the knowledge and skills to take a memory dump from a blue screen and determine what exactly happened.)
If you think this is a flame, it pretty much is. I hope to God you rethink your attitude with pushing the envelope. You do it now and you probably do it work and I don't want to know that you manufacture parts for the military where lives are on the line. My friend might be out there and die because you are a moron. Complacency kills.