overclocking and windows performance

hardc0re_tid

hardc0re_tid

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ive had my 6300 at 2.8 (stable btw) for ages now and half the time when i click the start button in windows it takes a second or two for the menu to appear.

ive also noticed other things 'lag' such as the time taken for winamp to start playing a song - id double click the song and it would take a moment for winamp to appear and start playing, this is with nothing else running, windows is sitting idle

another thing is the time taken to display the icons in my computer - no very often though. its seems to be happening more recently now. i installed xp pro sp2 early jan iirc and use diskeeper to defrag and ccleaner to clean up files and the reg.

im almost certain that none of this happen when i was running at stock 1.86

could my oc be affecting performance. it plays games very very well with no stuttering, just seems general usage in windows.
 
Not at all. A faster cpu (which in effect is what overclocking achieves) will if anything make windows quicker. Are you sure its not a background task thats causing your system to 'lag'? It could also be memory related.
 
hardc0re_tid said:
ive had my 6300 at 2.8 (stable btw) for ages now and half the time when i click the start button in windows it takes a second or two for the menu to appear.

ive also noticed other things 'lag' such as the time taken for winamp to start playing a song - id double click the song and it would take a moment for winamp to appear and start playing, this is with nothing else running, windows is sitting idle

another thing is the time taken to display the icons in my computer - no very often though. its seems to be happening more recently now. i installed xp pro sp2 early jan iirc and use diskeeper to defrag and ccleaner to clean up files and the reg.

im almost certain that none of this happen when i was running at stock 1.86

could my oc be affecting performance. it plays games very very well with no stuttering, just seems general usage in windows.
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This is happening to me aswell, im using a 200gb Maxtor IDE Drive
 
It's HDD and whatever Optical drive you are using access that is causing the 'lag'. Unless the 1s econd delay it takes for the Start Menu to appear really annoys you what's the point of tinkering for a week to try and solve a problem on a rig that by all accounts plays games without issue.

If the games slow down and start to lag for no reason or Windows itself stalls for unexplainable periods of time then I would start to worry. Just remember at the end of the day you are after all using Windows so a bit of lag here and there isn't something to be that worried about.
 
Have noticed the same sort of thing on "stable overclocked systems" many times before, basically it's erroring somewhere or some part of the disk system is under stress. I've seen system that are 24 hour orthos stable fall over in minutes doing simple stuff in windows. If it's lagging and it doesn't doing it at stock speeds, something is wrong.. you just haven't identified it yet.
 
i have a single 80GB WD CavierSE (i dont think its sata 2) for windows

and 2 250GB Seagates 7200.10's which are def sata 2, D & E, D is for games and E is for music and video.

i have my pcie freqency set to 110 in the BIOS to make my 7900gto work properly (although it takes a restart for it to be seen as x16 or else it will run in x1 mode - stupid P5B Deluxe) i have heard that around 120mhz will affect the sata drives.

system specs are

e6300 at 2.8ghz (400x7)
2gb geil 6400 ull at default speeds - 800mhz
asus p5b deluxe with 1004 bios
7900gto at stock - was at 700/800
pci audigy 2 5.1
1 wd 80gb for windows
1 seagate 7200.10 for games
1 seagate 7200.10 for music and video etc
 
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