Tonight was a good night to do some OCing, but I've stumbled upon something a bit strange....
I'm not sure if other people are running into this problem, but I will need to do a bit more testing between versions to see if there truly is a difference. After installing the other hard drive, I was not able to get any clocks stable above 3.7Ghz with the latest version of AMD Overdrive, version 2.1.6. While using 2.1.5, even though rejected by CPUz, my post from above is for 3.8Ghz, which was stable enough for me to do some stuff with (haven't tested fully yet)... So, in light of this 100mhz change, I decided that I should do some BIOS OCing (Ahh, old skool - those were the days) just to see if AMD Overdrive is absolutely correct on the clocks that were set... Well, it gets a bit stranger here. For the life of me, I can't get anything to boot into windows at a speed any higher than 3.6Ghz. It doesn't matter the combination of multipliers either, anything above 3.6 with a BIOS OC just won't boot windows, period.... No amount of volts on anything won't do anything above 3.6, not even 1mhz....
Anyways, tonight will hopefully be another good night for some testing on this. There could be limitations I am hitting somewhere that I can't control with the options in the BIOS like there are with AMD Overdrive. The Overdrive console allows a bit more flexibility in which voltages I can control (which doesn't make sense to me, but CPUz reports the same settings, and thus higher clocks are achievable within windows)... I'm actually quite baffled by this, so I'm going to ask around at school to see if anyone has a 790GX motherboard to put this chip in and see about overclocking it in there.
I'm confused. I have the screens saved on the hard drive, which will go back in the computer tonight. I just had to get to bed soon, since it's a little after 5am.....
This could possibly answer my question about the whole cpuz validation thing..... More testing to come.
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