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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I hate to be harsh, but this thread is sorta pointless. OC'ing any component of your system is gonna cause instability, even with correct cooling. Games like Battlefield 2 and Oblivion are EXTREMELY system intensive and will cause BSODs and freezes left and right. There are very, very few systems that run fine overclocked with games like these, and they're running fine based on raw luck. That's the number 1 reason why I hate OC'ing...it's not worth the instability. Even if you ramp up the voltage and get even better cooling, etc., chances are you'll still get BSODs because your components are being pushed harder than they're designed for.
I'd ramp it down to the first stable OC and keep it like that. 225 is pretty damn far already!  |
I fully agree, over clocking has little purpose these days; the few extra cycles don’t matter. It’s only really noticeable when you are rendering, or encoding large files and it only saves like 5% to 15% of the render/encode time, so only if you do a ton of it does it actually start to add up. I used to over clock, when I had my old P4 but now I try to keep the cpu nice and cool and lower the voltage, further reducing the temp, my 3500+ Winchester is stock at 1.4 volts, but mine runs stable at 1.15v
You may want to look into an over clocking web forum, they know more then I do, I just know that some frequencies interfere with others.