Just Overclocked

[Cygnus X1]

I also overclocked my 6600gt 10% @ 550 & 1000. I played BF2 for over 1 hour and nothing bad happened. things seemed good and fast. I also put my memory to 1T and went from there. My temps for CPU stayed under 38c and my video card near 80c.

Is this a good overclock and should I keep it if all seems well. I used the bios and just put it to manual and raised the FSB from 200 to 240, that's all I did besides disabling 2T.

Is this the right way to overclock. First Time.....

Oh I ran memtest for several hours and no errors and prime95 I have tried but after several minutes nothing happens just says testing. Am I supposed to leave it on the torture test for a long time? With I get more text saying what it is doing, and do I need to run prime95 if all is well gaming and temp wise?......Thanks

 

[Icepick]

Use Prime 95. Run the small FFT test and large FFT tests for 24 hours each. If they can run for 24 hours without any errors then you've got a stable overclock.

 

[Cygnus X1]

Originally posted by: icepik
Use Prime 95. Run the small FFT test and large FFT tests for 24 hours each. If they can run for 24 hours without any errors then you've got a stable overclock.

Can I run those while playing games and such? What does those tests do exactly? Stress the processor?

 

[Aznguy1872]

YEs it stresses the processor and yes you can play games while running it also.

 

[Cygnus X1]

So how does my overclock look? Looking for some feedback.