Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Andrey Falko wrote: >>> >>>> When I had the symptoms you described, it turned out that my RAM >>>> voltage needed to be raised in the BIOS. >>> Hmm. My system *is* overclocked (I'm one of those "enthusiast" guys). >>> I'm running an E6600 that runs 2.4GHz stock at 3GHz with a good >>> aftermarket cooler (temps never go above 48C at full load). The CPU >>> is overclocked and *undervoltaged* (1.29V from its 1.35V stock). The >>> RAM is both underclocked (to get an FSB:DRAM ratio of 1:1) and >>> undervoltaged. The system has been confirmed stable though; 8 hours >>> Prime95 stress test with no errors, which is much more of a stress >>> test than any real application can pull off. It also passes memtest. >>> >> >> I used to overclock some too until I started running folding. Folding >> just doesn't like overclocking. I'm not sure what prime95 does but it >> could still be a problem even though it passes. Just a thought. > > I was running folding too (up to the point where it affected the > electricity bill :P) It ran with no errors. For the record, Prime > puts more stress then folding; it really brings the system (CPU, > northbridge and RAM, the GPU isn't affected) to its knees. > > >
If you have ran folding and it works, then I would think you are ready for liftoff. From what I have read, folding is reeeeaaaaal touchy on overclocking. To think I bought a mobile AMD CPU and can't overclock because of folding. <sighs> Dale :-) :-)
