Reinstalling windows and oc

[Hawksworth]

Hello all

I'm a newbie at this sort of stuff so excuse me if this is a silly question but I just reinstalled windows and it occoured to me that my cpu may not be overclocked anymore because that clears everything. Is this the case?

Thanks

 

[Pc.robb]

If you overclocked it yourself this maybe the case but if OCuk did it for you there will still be a profile saved in your bios.

 

[s7cn]

If you overclocked via the BIOS then no, the overclock should still be there. If you overclocked using software then it may not be there after reinstall. A reinstallation of Windows just clears data on the harddrive hence it depends on what you used to overclock your cpu.

 

[Hawksworth]

I brought the system ready oc'ed from oc, so should I look for the profile in BIOS?

 

[s7cn]

Yeah, should be some sort of profile saved in the BIOS.

 

[Surveyor]

Re-installing Windows won't affect the BIOS or the overclock if done through the BIOS.

If it was overclocked before you re-installed it'll be overclocked after you re-installed.

You shouldn't need to do anything.

Just have CPU-Z running while you stress the processor (with Prime95 for example) and you'll see what speed the processor jumps to.