Quote Originally Posted by Lightman View Post


Is your chip at 2.8GHz under x64 or x32 OS?
I'm going to dig up my HDD with 32bit OS later this week if time will allow

BTW I'm sure BIOS still needs a lot of work. If my overclocked system crashes once then even after changing it to stock settings it will be unstable. Only solution is to unplug it from the socket for 30 seconds. Not a good thing to do.

PS. I'm not sure if everyone know this, but if your system can't boot because of some new too high settings in BIOS (HDD light flashing like mad) and you are going to CLEAR CMOS try first holding RESET button for 5-6 seconds. It always brings my system back .
Sure is Lightman.
I put my old 9500 on an XP pro x32 install and it oc's about the same as what it did on this Vista X64.

I found exactly the same thing with my reset button...count slowly to 5.

One thing I have found with this 9850 is the IMC is nowhere as good as my 9500 was. I'm now running my ram at 800. Must be something in my bit of silicon because it's on the same bios and I know the ram is good for 1150mhz.