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your lucky you didnt smoke some hardwarethe first time i did an o.c was with the turbo evo software that came with my mb. i just used the auto tuner and it did everything for me. it was only later that i realised that my ram was downclocked but the cpu was runing at 4.1ghz i then asked around on forums to see if this was safe and in the end i was told to change stuff so i followed some instructions from a user telling me to get my ram to run at 2000mhz i had to change the buss speed from 232 to 250 and in doing so it would give me the option to run the memory at 2000mhz so i did just that rebooted and i got a blue screen..restarted again booted into windows and tested some games and it crashed to the blue screen again..so the user told me to change the dram settings fro 2000 to a lower speed and he gave me some custom dram number settings ..it ran stable and then i went back into bios and saw the d.o.p option witch gave me the option to run the memory at 2000.so i set it and it ran fine. with a cpu ratio of 14 and a bus of 250 i left it at these settings for over 4 days and its been fine. so is what i did dangerous?
yah h40 is junk . I have h60 and works fine for me but i have 4cores you have 6cores and i would use h80 or h100 if i was youAn H40? Absolutely not! That's a weenie cooler. If you want to go water, look at the H100. You can do better than the H40 with a good air cooler easily. What's your budget?
its ok man.but yea i will look at the manule and see if i can find the cmos thing u say
update .looking in the user guide of my motherbord it ses DDR3 2000 0.c is support. if its suported by the motherbord why why was there a a danger to burning my hardware? sorry i reely need to understand this more..somtimes reading this dosent allwaz click with me. I havent found anything regarding clearing cmos yet though
the values that were auto set were completly diffrent to the recomended values for my memory..sorry if this is not to clear. its hard to explain