I wanted to update folks on my OC experience. I mentioned earlier that I was getting 3.5ghz with stock voltage, but when I went into Fallout and a couple of other apps it would occasionally crash. So I upped the voltage.. But I figured since I upped the voltage, I should at least try to get some more speed out of it.
Well I tweaked and fiddled with voltages, etc, but the most I can get absolutely stable in Vista64 (with 8Gb of RAM) is ~3.63ghz. I know I *should* be able to get higher, etc, but I haven't been able to pull it off. I'm at work now and can't post the confirmation, but I will later. Also if anyone has any tips, let me know!
My definition of stability is no reboots or hangs whatsoever in any application (games as well, which can be a big deal).
I want to also note that the OCZ Reaper memory I have seems to always be reported as DDR2 800 in every mb I've tried it in (and believe me I've tried it in at least 3 different mbs). I feel like I was kinda cheated on that; I probably won't be buying any more memory from them.
One more thing; it would be really cool if there was a way of knowing which component/components were holding you back. I had a couple of ahci64***(don't remember the exact thing) errors. There were also a couple of sound corruption issues (followed by crashes).
Let me say that I'm still very happy; my system is noticeably more responsive than the 3.0ghz 9850 I was running. It's butter smooth. I can't wait to try this under Windows 7 64bit.
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