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L337 M33P said:The noise level would have been the same but at a higher frequency the noise can contribute significantly in the failure of the CPU operations. Imagine jitters and fluctuations on a square wave - this is your CPU running at stock speed. Now when you overclock to the max on a particular voltage the CPU doesn't have square waves running through - the waveform speeds are approaching that of the switch on and switch off times of the little logic gates and so you end up with a more trapezoidal wave. Noise has more impact on this wave as there is a bigger percentage of uncertainty around the 1/2 way mark - the voltages are at that point for slightly "longer" - or for a bigger portion of the wave, so any slight variation due to thermal noise wll result in the CPU becoming unstable, even if the noise (temperatures) were the same as when the CPU was running slower.
L337 M33P said:Do you want a longer explanation or the same one with more paragraph breaks?
AGP/PCI lock is an option in the bios that allows you to up the fsb but lock the frequency the pci cards and video card gets. I looked up a review of your mobo (here) and your bios has that option. Check that. Also RAM timings and settings can cause instability.stan03 said:
agp lock...?
system
2.8C
Gigabyte 8KNXP
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Corsair 3200 LL Ram
Audigy 2
anything else?
Yes that is what I meant. If it is quality ram running slower than its rated speed then it could be a few things. Maybe your chip is at its max, or maybe you are at your mobo's max. I am not familiar with intel boards or gigabyte so I cannot say how well they overclock. Check out the gigabyte section of the mobo's and ask what others are getting. What is your fsb by the way?stan03 said:oh, yea i can change the fsb without changing tha 33/66 thingy. Is that what you mean? ram timings. they are set on auto, and the ram is actually running slower than thier rated speed.