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how much Ghz can windows handle?

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anyone got an idea? when i (try) to go above 4.0 Ghz my desktop will apear but that pretty much it... it then looks like that the cpu is @ horrible loads or something and it happend @
different pc's...:confused:

greets rage!

b.t.w. ms Xp home sp2 and xp x64 sp1
 
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psychomage343

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um.. unlimited actually, the reason you're having problems is because the question is not how much windows can handle, but more or less how much can you cpu handle
 

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Yeah, its not windows that is limiting you.....

IF you had a processor that went to 8 GHZ, windows would in theory work without a problem.

It is your CPU that is limiting you
 

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Your processor is clocked so high it is unstable, this creates large amounts of errors for windows to handle and correct, hence the high processor load. try lowering your cpu clock and stress testing with orthos.
 
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ok thanks! i tryed already every thing else to get it right and thougt that maybe this coult be an issue lol.

(and i wanted to break the 4.0 border so badly :cry:) ;)

most of the times when it fails it won't boot or crash during torture testing, thats why i got this idea
 

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ok thanks! i tryed already every thing else to get it right and thougt that maybe this coult be an issue lol.

(and i wanted to break the 4.0 border so badly :cry:) ;)

most of the times when it fails it won't boot or crash during torture testing, thats why i got this idea

that means your cpu is way past its limits with heat and many other factors...
 
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that means your cpu is way past its limits with heat and many other factors...

right, but you can't know till u get there:p BTW 55 celcius load, 1.5 Vcore
 
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lol, trust me, that temperature is wrong!

a Pentium D @ 4ghz, 1.5v will generate 160-180 watts of heat! :eek:

Trust me, they're hot! I had an 805 clocked to 4.2ghz on my high-end watercooling, and i couldn't keep it below 60c load.
 

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oh you this reminds me of me so much! dude! if it's stable at 3.9ghz leave it there! i was trying to hit 4.4 but i could only get 4.3 so i cried about it but finally gave up! so if your getting 3.9 leave it alone! as most say "if it's not broke, DON'T FIX IT"
 

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right, but you can't know till u get there:p BTW 55 celcius load, 1.5 Vcore

yea that's hideous. i run a 600mz OC at 1.35Vcore at 29Celcius idle.
 

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Buy some liquid nitrogen, give it 2 volts, overvolt northbridge, voila 5GHz :p
But seriously now. 3.9 seems to be your max OC, so I would drop it to 3.85
 
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no i ain't gonna push it furter, i just wanted to know if it could be an OS issue

i have it running @ 3.8 and 1.4 Volts now, stable as a rock.

thanks for the reply's guys!
 
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