Well i added a real cpu heat sink to mine (finally) and reset the bridge cooler thing, so it was optimal cooling.
and i couldnt resist to pump it up. even though i am supposed to keep the thing 100% stable under all conditions, i have to find out what MAX is, then move a few steps down from there.
380, ohh this is too cool, so then i thought hey, if i could just make it to an even 100/400/800 it would just sound like it had everything in symetry, even if that doesnt make any difference.
so i go from 380 to 400, and the "STRAP" thing that is discussed elsewhere (that i dont understand) changed.
so the cpu is now another 10% faster, OK that is cool.
BUT
the Raid Speed went to heck.
from cute numbers like 178Max to around 100 instead :-(
some days i wish i knew what i was doing, taking a hit on the HARD DRIVE speed is a total disaster, the Hard drive speeds are one of the worst bottlenecks , other than internet.
so now what? do i now work off this lower "strap" setting, and move on up (400+)till that breaks to find the max?
slower harddrive is unacceptable to ME , no mater how fast the cpu looks
so as you see there is something happening that we cannot see easily, is it the speed of the chipset ?
when people say, there is a problem getting the speeds from 380-400, 399 seems to me to be the max speed of the chipset buss speed thing (Strap???)
so if you just JUMP from the say 375 where it actually is stable and everything is maxxed out, to 400, then the "strap" changes, everything but the cpu slows back down to crud? and you can get there from here, without going through there to get there ???
oh wait, that might be wrong, because the hard drive test requires only 6% cpu and without cpu usage the scaling doesnt occur, and i turned scaling back on.
ahh just read this, mabey they know what it all means
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=478597&highlight=strap
'My system stutters and sputters when I'm at 400 x 6, whereas this completely disappears when I hit 8 x 300."
ditto that, actual OS occurances were much faster with less balking at the 360, than 400, so if overclocking means i gotta ruin my actual speed, then i will either stay lower, or have to learn where the real sweet spot is.