Overclocking CPU and Dual booting several different OSes..

[Tennis Holligan]

Hi. I have a question concerning overclocking my CPU and Dual-booting multiple OSes. I currently have installed two OSes on my machine two WinXP partitions, one Linux Red Hat and pretty soon, i will have FreeBSD set up.

With that said, i wonder how all this 3 somewhat different Operating System would react to an increase of the CPU FSB and Core speed, whether it be, negative or possitive? Bare in mind, that i only use one partition for gaming -which is the main reason, why i want to overclock in the first place ), the rest i just use for other porpuses. I wonder, if getting one partition stable enough - in this case the gaming partition, there won't be a negative effect on the rest of the OSes?

Any help, comments or sudgestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Arkaine23]

Do some intensive stability testing. If the hardware is stable in one OS, odds are its going to be stable in the others as well.


Welcome to the forums!!

 

[David]

I know Linux can be more picky about ram than win9x oses but if its XP you are running as well as Linux and *BSD then they will probably all need about the same stability.

I remember once I had a stick of RAM go bad on me and Win98 didnt make a fuss but Linux didnt like it at all.

 

[Gnufsh]

If your hardware is stable you probably won't have a problem. I use Gentoo and have a windows98 partition that I use occasionally on my main overclocking rig, with no problems. Of curse, I'm a little obsessive about stability.

 

[Tennis Holligan]

Thanks to all for the reply, i guess that all your answer and comments have giving me a depper understanding in overclocking.