Quote Originally Posted by fscussel
ok, I have came to a conclusion of my own... when you use clockgen or another "windows" program to change the clock, apparently you cheat the board in a way that it doesn't apply the next strap, so you keep the best of both worlds, a faster strap and an fsb/clock increase... that has lead me to another point: probably when rising the FSB with clockgen you will reach a crash/limit must earlier than by doing that using the bios... so, let's say, if you can reach 500mhz by setting it in the bios, you will only reach 430mhz when using clockgen, that's because of the faster strap used when rising from windows (clockgen)... someone with hardware could test that !! I don't have my C2D rig yet...
that's exactly what it is.......it's self explanatory by the info provided

others have done this and they crash even earlier than 430