Overclocking actually seems slower?

[doubleJ]

Hello...
This is a follow-up, I guess, to my previous core voltage question.

I have a Soyo Dragon+, XP1600+, and 1 256 Crucial PC2100. I am currently overclocking the fsb to 153 with the multiplier still locked at 10.5 and a vcore of 1.85v. Everything seems to run fine, I even reformatted/reinstalled win2k and a bunch of programs just to try and crunch it. My cpu temp only went up from 32 degrees to 37 degrees.

I haven't done any benchmarks, but programs seem to take a little longer to run than usual. Also, when playing mp3's and installing stuff, I get mp3 lag, which didn't happen before the o/c. My RAM latency is actually 2.5, but it's set in the bios for 2. It's almost like the computer is too fast and it's skipping things. Has anyone seen this before? Everything seems stable. I haven't had any crashes or lockups. Even though it's rating a 1900+ at 1601mhz.
JJ

 

[THUGSROOK]

set the ram back to spd specs and lower the oc to 150fsb.
...to see if that behavior continues.

 

[doubleJ]

I tried that and the mp3 issue stopped. I bumped the fsb back up to 153 with the ram at 2.5 and everything still seems cool.
I tried installing the Win2k rollout and it wouldn't install. I'm going to try some other stuff, but aside from that things are nice. I'm also going to play some q3 and rtcw to see if there are any video problems.
JJ

 

[rogue1979]

Try installing Prime 95, it will error out the second any cpu or memory instabilities are detected.

 

[IAMC4N4DIAN]

Where can I get Prime 95?

 

[doubleJ]

In an odd turn of events, after a day of stability, my onboard sound started freaking out and had to manually power down my computer. When I brought it back up, I had to reformat because win2k wouldn't load. There was some issue with the .sys for my soundcard. Afterwards, I realized that the overclocking really wouldn't benefit me at all, so I just dropped it back to the normal settings. Overclocking may be great for some people, but I don't think it matters enough to me. I may try unlocking my XP1600+ at some point, but knocking the fsb up just doesn't seem necessary.
JJ

 

[LuNoTiCK]

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm