Against the advice of my better judgement, aka Rachel (my girlfriend), I overclocked most of my computer (as I mentioned in my last post) and I ended up pushing it too far, and pushing it incorrectly. When I realized that the blue screen of death was prepared for an epic battle, I fought with everything I had just to regain the freedom my computer once had. After several hours, the blue screen was defeated, and THEBOMB was liberated (that's the name of my computer, if you know what that means), and those left alive could finally get some rest after one of the bloodiest battles this world has seen. Of course,
after I had pushed it too far, and in the wrong way, I came across the description of my
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition motherboard at Asus.com. I read the entire thing, hanging on the suspense of every word. This board is awesome! Oh, what I can do in the BIOS! I read up on each feature, both at Asus.com and all over the places google sent me, and couldn't wait to get home to try it again the easier, and more correct way. This board, as well as my last board (which was a POS), has an automatic overclocking program in the BIOS. Just select AI Overclock to 3%, 5%, 7%, or 10%, and it will automatically up EVERYTHING across the board correctly, and incramentally. I tried this method with my last board, which was an MSI K8T-Neo (which no longer exists), using the D.O.T. (Dynamic Overclocking Technology) program in the BIOS. After running at a blazing 3% faster than normal for 18 hours, it died, never to rise again. When I got a new computer (this one) I read up on this DOT, and found that it was a horrible attempt by MSI to match the features of Asus boards. Now I have an Asus board, I'm all read up on everything about this particular board (including as many EggXpert forum posts as I could find on the subject), I'm much more "in the know" about computers and technology, and I have a FULL understanding of what can and will go wrong if these sorts of things are done wrong. Rignt now, I'm running an AMD 6400+ @ 3.2GHz overclocked to 3.36GHz and I'm upping it with AI Overclock one percentage mark (of those listed) every 12 hours or so. With any luck, things should go my way this time.
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I first read, "overcooked" instead of "overclocked."
WHOA not the same.
@SheSaysLoudly - In some cases, they are one in the same. lol
What type of cooling do you have for the CPU? Make sure you have enough cooling. Do you have the 125 or 140 Watt version of the processor? A 140 Watt will run hotter than the 125 Watt, so knowing that will also help prevent overheating. The next chip I get is going to be a 125V Phenom Quad Core. Probably a 9850 or 9950 Black Edition. I need to get a new motherboard as well, I'm probably going with an Asus board too. I'm using a MSI board now, it's not too bad, but I have a problem with a lot of the small errors I get here and there, so it just serves to fuel my need for a new board. Lol.
@respawn87 - Zalman 9700 baby. I love it. It keeps my CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor) under 50 celcius, even overclocked and at 100% load. Awesome. 9950? I haven't seen that one yet. I've got my eye on the 9850 Black Edition, but that's more because I want DDR2 1066 RAM. Asus boards are awesome. The BIOS is really easy to use. But if you're going for a cheaper board, I'd recommend Gigabyte. I've installed three Gigabyte boards now, and I love them. I've heard several times that Gigabyte boards have a problem with G.Skill memory, but my friend/ex-roommate/coworker hasn't had a problem with that combo yet (as far as I know). As for MSI, my last board was by them and I never had a problem until I went to overclock. The BIOS is crazy hard to figure out, and the DOT functions were ridiculous. Instead of OC percentages (numbers) it used military class levels (private, sargent, etc). Weird. I ended up cooking the board because even though it said "Automatic DOT" it was almost entirely manual. If I were to get a new AMD board, it would be this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130136. Four PCI-E slots? Crazy! My next BOMB computer will be Intel, however, because I've used AMD in all my other builds and I've yet to see any of them come close to the performance (as far as gaming) of Intel/nVidia rigs.
I am fixing to start commenting your site in Greek.
haha
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