Morning all
Was wondering what peoples experience has been like with the Ntune app that comes with the Nvidia driver for the 8800GTX.
My specs:
Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.6Ghz) with Pro 7 cooler
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
XFX 8800 GTX
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) - just purchased from OC and seem to have issues with it (blue screen shut downs to protect hardware). Upgraded from Corsair XMS 667mhz
My problems are twofold.
When using the Corsair ram, the Ntune (coarse) overclocking tool was able to clock my CPU to 2.91Ghz which made for some nice improvements in 3D Mark 06 (going from 10,450 to 10,872). Manually (through the same app I was able to clock it to 3Ghz, again with no problem other than BF2 running with frequent stutters whatever overclock I was working with (even a move to 2.7Ghz for example). Anybody know why overclocking through this tool makes BF stutter?
The other issue relates to my newly acquired Ram. I am unable to detect any benefit over the previous ram despite its apparent higher speed rating. Of more concern however is the system crashes (blue screen) when using the Ntune app. Even the smallest of incremental increases are met with a system crash and reboot. Anybody have any ideas why this would be? Do I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver?
I accept that using this app might be a 'girlie' way to overclock but this is my first venture into overclocking and I thought this might be a safer way to dabble. I realise the bios is where its at but I frankly find that too confusing as my mobo seems to have different terminology (ie can't see reference to BUS, only FSB) and don't understand how to alter the divider as I wouldn't want to overclock the RAM - all very silly to you experienced clockers).
Any advice appreciated.
Was wondering what peoples experience has been like with the Ntune app that comes with the Nvidia driver for the 8800GTX.
My specs:
Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.6Ghz) with Pro 7 cooler
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
XFX 8800 GTX
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) - just purchased from OC and seem to have issues with it (blue screen shut downs to protect hardware). Upgraded from Corsair XMS 667mhz
My problems are twofold.
When using the Corsair ram, the Ntune (coarse) overclocking tool was able to clock my CPU to 2.91Ghz which made for some nice improvements in 3D Mark 06 (going from 10,450 to 10,872). Manually (through the same app I was able to clock it to 3Ghz, again with no problem other than BF2 running with frequent stutters whatever overclock I was working with (even a move to 2.7Ghz for example). Anybody know why overclocking through this tool makes BF stutter?
The other issue relates to my newly acquired Ram. I am unable to detect any benefit over the previous ram despite its apparent higher speed rating. Of more concern however is the system crashes (blue screen) when using the Ntune app. Even the smallest of incremental increases are met with a system crash and reboot. Anybody have any ideas why this would be? Do I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver?
I accept that using this app might be a 'girlie' way to overclock but this is my first venture into overclocking and I thought this might be a safer way to dabble. I realise the bios is where its at but I frankly find that too confusing as my mobo seems to have different terminology (ie can't see reference to BUS, only FSB) and don't understand how to alter the divider as I wouldn't want to overclock the RAM - all very silly to you experienced clockers).
Any advice appreciated.
