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Does overclocking produce any other malignant side effects other than extra heat?

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Caveman

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Can overclocking a CPU (FSB) or Video Card GPU cause screen freezes or lockups in programs other than that which is caused by the extra heat generation of the OCing? I have one program (a flight simulator) that seems picky (freezes the screen when the Video Card GPU is OC'ed and CTD when the CPU is OCed). The problem seems to be independent of a heat issue as my machine never sees >45 deg C under full load and other programs work fine OCed. Can there be some sort of timing issues there causing the problems -- i.e. the software only likes to "talk to" the hardware at a nominal clock speed. Is this sort of thing even plausible?

Thanks.
 
yeah...o/c video card would be more than likely to causes freeze because of insufficient cooling...best bet is to increase your o/c slowly and play around until it starts to freeze and back down a few notches...
if freezing starts right from the beginning usually means you might have a driver problem...update to the latest driver for video, directx, game driver, etc...
i think people over at video card forum should be helpful also if you post this over there
 
try changing your VGA fan w/ a better one (if it comes w/ a fan)
add heatsinks to your VGA memory....


good luck. 🙂
 
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