Confused by Sandy Bridge overclocking

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/200...-temperatures/

I7's throttle down at temps over 100 C. Thats what I was thinking of.

What we’ve found is that the Intel Core i7 CPUs throttle down their speed starting at 100C. So, 100C is the maximum operating temperature of Intel Core i7. However, due to the great power management, we have never seen instability due to temperature



Ram errors are "random" because a spicific address in ram may one time hold one kind of data and next time you power up a different kind of data which might give different error codes which makes ram errors hard to pinpoint. Plus if its a ram error the blue screen code has NOTHING to do with the error, because the ram returns wrong infromation (we don't use ECC ram), which could be random depending on how the ram fails. So while you are looking up the errror code you are wasting time casue that not the problem at all. For example you get a blue screen error code and then you replace the ram and everything is fine. Did the error code tell you that the ram was bad? Doubt it.


Here is infos on overclocking Sandy Bridge:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel...d-177765.shtml



Anyway I would not overclock a cpu as if you want a faster cpu just buy a faster cpu. CPU is not boxers problem, our problem is getting data from the SSD or the Hard Drive (textures) into system ram.

Spend your money to fix that up (i.e. faster SSD).

Spend your money here first (well get a X58 system though) then worry about your ram speed or cpu speed: And get as much ram on the video card as you can.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...-drive-r2.html

Well those are a bit costly lol.... I use a revo but those are better ...