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Hello Everyone 
Since getting my latest upgrades situated, I have wanted to see how far I can go while still stable.
My Information:
eVGA 680i Mobo
Corsair (2x1GB) XMS2 Dominator 1066 MHz, PC2-8500
Intel Conroe E6700
eVGA 8800GTX
WD Raptor 150GB
I have been taking the advice of Arcygenical's guide to Conroe Overclocking, starting with uping the voltage of my memory to the manufacturer suggested 2.2v from stock 1.8v. I will admit my n00bness in that I am clueless of how memory speed interacts with FSB of processor speed, and what all should be changed from defaults. But anyways, Ill go through the changes that I did do.
1) As I said, upped the voltage of the Corsair memory to 2.2v as suggested.
2) Checked my Load Temps, I get roughly 30 degrees Celcius from the BIOS, and ~33-39 degrees celcius in Intel TAT, so i figure im good to go as far as temps go.
3) Anyways, regardless of the changes I made, I started OCing (atleast, I think i was overclocking ) increasing the FSB in the evga 680i BIOS from 1066 to 1100, which would equal an overall increase to 2750 mhz, much lower than the much mentioned 3.0-3.5 GHZ. Immediately at trying to boot, it was unable to load windows claiming corrupted data, i restarted, reset BIOS to defaults, and everything was back to normal. Any idea what im doing wrong?
List of things that Im clueless about:
1) How to 'lock' my evga 680i PCIe and PCI busses
2) Making sure my RAM speed is 1:1 - this also confuses me with having it linked, whats the relation?
3) What I did wrong in my little mini-oc attempt above.
Since getting my latest upgrades situated, I have wanted to see how far I can go while still stable.
My Information:
eVGA 680i Mobo
Corsair (2x1GB) XMS2 Dominator 1066 MHz, PC2-8500
Intel Conroe E6700
eVGA 8800GTX
WD Raptor 150GB
I have been taking the advice of Arcygenical's guide to Conroe Overclocking, starting with uping the voltage of my memory to the manufacturer suggested 2.2v from stock 1.8v. I will admit my n00bness in that I am clueless of how memory speed interacts with FSB of processor speed, and what all should be changed from defaults. But anyways, Ill go through the changes that I did do.
1) As I said, upped the voltage of the Corsair memory to 2.2v as suggested.
2) Checked my Load Temps, I get roughly 30 degrees Celcius from the BIOS, and ~33-39 degrees celcius in Intel TAT, so i figure im good to go as far as temps go.
3) Anyways, regardless of the changes I made, I started OCing (atleast, I think i was overclocking
) increasing the FSB in the evga 680i BIOS from 1066 to 1100, which would equal an overall increase to 2750 mhz, much lower than the much mentioned 3.0-3.5 GHZ. Immediately at trying to boot, it was unable to load windows claiming corrupted data, i restarted, reset BIOS to defaults, and everything was back to normal. Any idea what im doing wrong? List of things that Im clueless about:
1) How to 'lock' my evga 680i PCIe and PCI busses
2) Making sure my RAM speed is 1:1 - this also confuses me with having it linked, whats the relation?
3) What I did wrong in my little mini-oc attempt above.