Im no expert at overclocking and was doing some experimentation this afternoon. Running a C2D e7500 in an MSI p43 neo-f board (really bad and cheap board 
) and have had it at 3.4 1.2750 vcore for the past 6 weeks or so. Today i decided to try to push it a bit further, out of bordom more than anything else.
I got it running at 3.5 at the same vcore and was 30 runs of IBT stable. I went to play MW2 and after a few games the screen started artifacting. I quickly reset my OC back to what it was but when i ran IBT again it was reporting speeds of 9Gflops as oppossed to the previous 23.
I then, panicing, reset to defaults in bios, rebooted to windows and tried to run IBT again. Still sitting around 9Gflops (usually 19.5ish at stock speeds). Really panicing now
Went back into bios and looked around to see what was wrong. I couldn't see anything. I turned it off and waited for around 10 mins. When I re tried IBT it reported 18Gflops (lower but better). Finally solved this as it reset my ram to 5-5-5-15 as opposed to its defaults of 4-4-4-12.
Any idea what happened here to break it so much/fix it? Any other lucky experiences, or slightly less lucky ones?
) and have had it at 3.4 1.2750 vcore for the past 6 weeks or so. Today i decided to try to push it a bit further, out of bordom more than anything else.I got it running at 3.5 at the same vcore and was 30 runs of IBT stable. I went to play MW2 and after a few games the screen started artifacting. I quickly reset my OC back to what it was but when i ran IBT again it was reporting speeds of 9Gflops as oppossed to the previous 23.
I then, panicing, reset to defaults in bios, rebooted to windows and tried to run IBT again. Still sitting around 9Gflops (usually 19.5ish at stock speeds). Really panicing now
Went back into bios and looked around to see what was wrong. I couldn't see anything. I turned it off and waited for around 10 mins. When I re tried IBT it reported 18Gflops (lower but better). Finally solved this as it reset my ram to 5-5-5-15 as opposed to its defaults of 4-4-4-12.
Any idea what happened here to break it so much/fix it? Any other lucky experiences, or slightly less lucky ones?