VirtualLarry
No Lifer
I know that AMD CPUs have different OC max limits, depending on whether or not you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit OS.
Do Core2Duo chips, specifically the E5200, also have different OC limits depending on 64-bit or 32-bit?
I built a rig for a friend with an E5200 OCed to 3.75Ghz, but we had to turn it down to 3.625Ghz instead, because it wasn't Prime95 stable at that speed a year later. It had been running at 1.42v BIOS setting, which was 1.4 under load. He was running DC for me for a long time, so it ran at the 1.4v or just under for quite some time, then he stopped, so it was running at a higher voltage for a while, which may have degraded it slightly.
I'm planning on upgrading him from XP to Win7 HP 64-bit soon, along with an SSD. I was wondering if I should play it safe and return everything to stock settings, and then re-OC from scratch with Win7 64-bit, or if that would even be necessary.
Do Core2Duo chips, specifically the E5200, also have different OC limits depending on 64-bit or 32-bit?
I built a rig for a friend with an E5200 OCed to 3.75Ghz, but we had to turn it down to 3.625Ghz instead, because it wasn't Prime95 stable at that speed a year later. It had been running at 1.42v BIOS setting, which was 1.4 under load. He was running DC for me for a long time, so it ran at the 1.4v or just under for quite some time, then he stopped, so it was running at a higher voltage for a while, which may have degraded it slightly.
I'm planning on upgrading him from XP to Win7 HP 64-bit soon, along with an SSD. I was wondering if I should play it safe and return everything to stock settings, and then re-OC from scratch with Win7 64-bit, or if that would even be necessary.
