Hiya all,
Recently I reinstalled a copy of XP on my rig and updated my BIOS. Then I tried to OC it. Problem is, after succesfully booting into Windows the actual performance in-game is lower than when not OC'd at all. Games tested: Oblivion and Medieval II, thus the only games I have available. Oblivion drops from 120 to 70 indoors and 35 to 25 outdoors, Medieval II has even lower OC'd performance with a glitched up main-menu (Horizontal lines with textures that don't quite match with the rest(something else caused by the OC?)), and 5 FPS in-game. Thing is, it used to work fine before.
The rig:
E4300
GA-965P-DS3 Mobo with F12 BIOS
Antec Truepower Trio 550 Watt
WD SE16 Caviar 250GB
Nvidia 8800 320MB
Kingston PC6400 2x1024 MB (800Mhz.)
What I did was, from standard BIOS settings, disable CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) and CPU EIST Function, set the FSB to 270 which is 9x270 ~2,40Ghz with an E4300, System Memory Multiplier to 2.66 and set the timings to 4-4-4-12. Then I added a 0.1 volt to the RAM and let it boot. Later I tried disabling the CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) which resulted in a BSOD, which I'm not sure has to do with each other. Temps, as I mentioned used to be fine.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as I'm certainly stuck here. .
Greets,
Tim
PS. Not sure which section this belongs so I just put it in General Discussions.
Recently I reinstalled a copy of XP on my rig and updated my BIOS. Then I tried to OC it. Problem is, after succesfully booting into Windows the actual performance in-game is lower than when not OC'd at all. Games tested: Oblivion and Medieval II, thus the only games I have available. Oblivion drops from 120 to 70 indoors and 35 to 25 outdoors, Medieval II has even lower OC'd performance with a glitched up main-menu (Horizontal lines with textures that don't quite match with the rest(something else caused by the OC?)), and 5 FPS in-game. Thing is, it used to work fine before.
The rig:
E4300
GA-965P-DS3 Mobo with F12 BIOS
Antec Truepower Trio 550 Watt
WD SE16 Caviar 250GB
Nvidia 8800 320MB
Kingston PC6400 2x1024 MB (800Mhz.)
What I did was, from standard BIOS settings, disable CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) and CPU EIST Function, set the FSB to 270 which is 9x270 ~2,40Ghz with an E4300, System Memory Multiplier to 2.66 and set the timings to 4-4-4-12. Then I added a 0.1 volt to the RAM and let it boot. Later I tried disabling the CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) which resulted in a BSOD, which I'm not sure has to do with each other. Temps, as I mentioned used to be fine.
Any input would be greatly appreciated as I'm certainly stuck here. .
Greets,
Tim
PS. Not sure which section this belongs so I just put it in General Discussions.