xp vs vista vs win 7

hlennie

hlennie

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has any body noticed a difference in how much they can overclock their processors with these different operating systems?

vista i can get 4.22 stable whilst in 7 i can hit 4.4 currently keep at 4.22 because the dominators can be a bit fiddly over 1600 settings (qpi voltage is the key)

when i had my q6600 it would hit 3.2 Ghz on xp but 3.8 Ghz on vista
 
I wouldnt of thought it would make any difference, but apparently it does! Only got Windows7 installed now on my PC. Used to have XP on it as well but never noticed problems booting into either
 
There shouldn't be a difference in weather your system is stable after an overclock or not depending on which operating system you're using. If your system is stable, it will be stable regardless of which operating system you're using.

How are you testing the stability of your system after you have overclocked?
 
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what firewizard said

if you have a stable overclock then it stops there

regardless of what software you are using
 
well i found not much change in vista - win7

but the q6600 defo gave me a better overclock xp - vista using a gigabyte p35 ds4 only settings on the motherboard i changed where fsb speed all other settings where auto

stabilty testing using prime 95, speeds checked using CPU-Z
 
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