Using Clockgen gets better results?

[Thorny]

I had always thought that for the best stable OC you had to use the boards bios. I have an A8V Deluxe that is not a great overclocker and usually run below HTT 245 or it's not too stable. Playing around with clockgen has gotten me much better, stable results at lower operating temps than bios tweaking ever did. Is there a good reason for this? I'm running at HTT 290 now with pretty good results this far, if I had set it this high in the bios I would be clearing my CMOS right now.

In bois I have the HT set at 3X, HTT at 200, agp/pci lock at 66.6/33.3, core voltage at 1.5. I use clockgen to change HTT, Multiplier, and voltage if necessary. I just can figure out why my temps are so much better now, even with higher voltage.

Has anyone else had great results like this? I've ran benches to verify atcual clock increases and everything matches up. Tell me what you all think.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Run prime95 for several hours, you can overclock well past the stable point in windows. Bottom line if it won't boot windows its not a stable O/C

 

[Duvie]

Not true daddy...

In some instances boards have pci/agp clocks that go south after a certain HTT....Booting into windows at lower HTT and then using clockgen has allowed many to keep the pci locks..Has nothing to do with stability there...

I think clockgen is great for messing around buit once I have a speed that is locked in stabl, I set it with the bios

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Interesting, haven't heard that before. So something in the boot process kill's the locks if the HTT is too high?

One thing I have noticed is that Cool n' Quite limits the bootable HTT on my board.
310-320 without, 260 with.

 

[Thorny]

With bios oc'ing I was still Prime and Memtest stable but would still get random reboots and BSOD. Sorry for not clarifing that Clockgen has given me Prime95 verified stable results of much higher than Bios had. With my system oc'ed in bios, Prime running good was not a guarantee of a stable system.