Best operating system for overclocking ?????

[speedkills]

Are there opinions on any O.S. being better than others? I can run my system bus to 274mhz, my ram to 160mhz, and my 1ghz chip to 1450mhz, but push any one of those further, and get windows errors. Now, I realize the hardware could be maxed out, but I can't help thinking I'm being held back by "Windows ME". My last voyage to 1480mhz caused registry problems. Any opinions would help. I'm experimenting with slowing down bios settings to get to 1500mhz. AND WHY DO WE DO THIS??? I DON'T KNOW.........

[paul233]

Yes you need the greed is good OS, send me $1000 dollars and I will send it by fedex. Otherwise be happy with what you have, 50% over stock. We do this because it is fun, and it is actually fun to know when to stop also.....you are there..............!

[speedkills]

Thanks for the advice Paul. I'd like to stop, but I don't think I can without meetings. "Hi my name is Tony, and I'm an overclocking junkie".
Still would like to know if "NT","2000", or "Linux" would run smoother at higher speeds than "ME".

[This message has been edited by speedkills (edited 05-01-2001).]

[NDD]

Interesting issue, now when I'm thinking ...
Will be back when I come up with something.

Best Regards ...

[MadMatt]

In my experience, given the same hardware, W2K is the most stable of all the flavors of Windows.

I ran a torture test on my NT/W2K machine one time. NT would crash within 5 minutes, W2K ran for 3 days with no problems. Every so often it would pop-up an error message, but it would just keep going.

[flea]

I find that if win95 wont boot, linux wont either. If you overclock you probally want games, so linux wont be much good anyway, unless you only play q3. Linux gives scary errors and then dies, windows just dies. open(or possibly free, cant remember)BSD is supposedly super stable, but i dont know if that applies to OCin.

[fixes spelling]

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[paul233]

I just chatted with someone who is beta testing the new MS o/s, whatever the heck it is called, and he says it is worth waiting for, better and even more stable than 2000. Only thing is you have to register the copy on line so you cannot use it on more than one machine. MS finally figured out the honor system wasn't working.

[tepo]

Overclocking is addictive.... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[charmler]

Overclockaholics anonymous meets here daily.

I had the best luck with WIN98 but I am using ME now with some success. No BSOD's but not very high OC either. I would try different BIOS's and drivers. I spent hours trying to get a K6_3-450 to 500 on a EPOX but gave up and bought this one. ABIT KT7-raid 900@1050 and more later. First thing to do is make sure the system is absolutely error free at default speeds. I have a backup system(above) so OCing is no problem.

[speedkills]

Thanks all for the info. The new MS o/s sounds interesting. I don't really know yet if I should be attacking ME on this front. I thought my bios settings were rock solid, and am reasonably sure of my equipment, but most of my componants were never intended to be used this way. BTW........Has anyone out there done the conversion to the "KT-7A raid" board to allow you to max your core voltage to 2.200 volts???

[NDD]

Just tried few things, as promised http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I have Abit KT7A (YH BIOS) and 1 GHz T-Bird (AXHA 100 MHz FSB). My top overclock is 1330 MHz (won't boot any higher) so these are OSes I've tested :

1. Win95 - hardly boots, few BSODs, locks up eventually.
2. Win98 - a little bit better, still BSODs, locks up when installing V3 3000 (or anything else other then generic VGA driver (overclocked AGP ? ))
3. Win98SE - boots fine, BSODs during gameplay (Q3, Mercedes Truck), but pretty stable.
4. WinME - boots every second/third time (?), but then works pretty fine, except lost clusters when trying to copy large amounts of data (Quantum FireBall CX 10GB, ATA66) - didn't want to use my own IBM DTLA 75GXP 45GB - could be better.
5. Win2000 (Professional) - stable, both in boot and work, same story with lost clusters.
5. WinXP (build 2462) - truly eXPperience http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif , booted nice but then the problems began, crashes and likes, same problem with video drivers update, but I've heard newer build is available somewhere, maybe it will be better.
6. Linux (Mandrake 7) - hardly installs, didn't boot, doesn't like o/cing http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif (I want to try the newest, v8 core)
7. DOS 6.22 - SIMPLY THE BEST, WORKS FINE, NO BSODs http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

All the tests were done in two days, 5 hours each day, very busy at work http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Best Regards ...

[Mitchell]

Had to laugh ND... DOS6.22.. lol

I agree, DOS was KING! Those were the days. Lots of newbies in tech though. Kinda like trying to explain to someone what a 33RPM record was like, all you get is blank stares. I wonder how many other out there basked in the warmth of DOS. I wonder how many, if any, out there even HEARD of DOS...

hmmm...

[speedkills]

ND your'e a man of your word. Your first post left me wondering what you had in mind. Your second post closes the issue, and saves me loading software for nothing.I thank you for taking the time(playing), to figure this out, and now we all know. I'll keep tweaking till I'm satified, then it will be time to trade my Abit anyway. Thanks

[NDD]

Dude, glad I'm helpful, but be careful - o/cing is similar to gambling, or drug using http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif - you should stay in contol of how much you're into it. I fried my previous Asus A7V and 1.2 GHz T-Bird trying to reach magical 1.5 GHz ... well, I did it, with watercooling, but then when one of the hoses loosed, it cost me a lot (mobo, processor, GF2GTS, 512 MB Infineon memory, wife screaming http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ).
Truly, having 1.5 GHz processor is nice, but how much you willing to give for it ?

Best Regards ...

[paul233]

ND, great job of fact finding, thanks for taking the time to do it.

[r0l0e]

have no problems running kt7, duron 700@981 apacer 150@144 on win2k sp1, winme, beos 5, or linux-man8.

although it seems to run hotter on winme (37c) compaired to win2k (31c). been running at 218 fsb for the past 2 mo. and i'm happy with no problems. if i go any higher, it won't get passed grub/lilo. think it's board's chipset?

[speedkills]

ND, You speak with too much wisdom. I'm not yet ready to accept that. As you can imagine I will have to gain my trills at the expense of my hobby(habit). Even though I am able to listen to your advice, I am sure this will cost me equipment that I cannot afford before I'm done. Thanks again.
Adios

[Roy]

Mr. Bunny and the other Japanese liquid nitrogen 'clockers use W95.