If overclocking inside windows via ClockGen is theoretical, does that imply that it can be "unlocked" with tweaking?
If I may pick your brain, do you have a system to find what your limiting factor is?
Example, I've managed to boot 2.8GHz stable in Linux, but I can barely ClockGen 2.4GHz in Windows. The only difference I can think of is that Windows boots off RAID, but that's on the ICH and should have its frequency locked in.. I think.
WINE didn't like SuperPI
No I dont thinks so.....my theoretical statement meant that in my eyes (not necessarily anyone elses view) if you boot to windows then raise voltages and FSB thru software thats great and many would say thats an acheived overclock, if you then double click on a shortcut and your system crashes because the overclocked CPU is actually having to do some work at that speed and fails then to me it's "theoretical".......being able to boot to windows with an overclock is much more stressful than say running SuperPi 1M....but as I said, thats just a personal view.....when I put on my specs that my baby E8200 runs at 4.5gig, thats because it does actually run at 4.5gig, I am not saying it is stable in all apps at that speed but it will actually do things and boot!
For example, take my graphics card, in the windows envoirnment (2D), I can go to EVGA Precision tool and set my GPU speed linked to 850mhz and apply it, GPU-Z will clearly show that it is running at 850mhz but does anyone think that if I go into anything 3D it will do anything but crash my system?
I am not denying the legitimacy of using software in the Windows envoirnment, it's just a practice I dont follow personally.