On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:24:32 +0000 (UTC), Meat Plow
wrote:

Jeff here is my current machine:

Corsair XMS3 4GB PC12800 DDR3 Dual Channel 1600Mhz
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition AM3
ASUS M4A78T-E AMD 790GX Socket AM3
ULTRA LS600 600W ATX POWER SUPPLY

OK. I'm jealous. I know overclocking can be made to work, especially
if the manufacturers of the board and RAM underspecify their maximum
speeds. So far, there's no evidence that the MSI motherboard was
overclocked, so I'm speculating as to the culprit.

Built in July 2010. Ran for a month at standard CPU clock.
Upped 3.2 to 4 ghz in August 2010

Dual boot Mandriva 2010 Power Pack server kernel
# uname -r
2.6.31.13-server-1mnb

Have you run Prime95 (Win) or MBench (Linux) benchmark to see if you
can kill it? I use that as my QA test for overkill machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/
I've seen stock non-overclocked hang or overheat running this.

Windows 7 Ultimate.

Zero problems/anomalies. Rarely use the Windows 7 anymore but had
same stability in Manddriva 2010 and Win 7.

Asus M4A78T-E is the overclocker's choice because of all the
timing and core syncing features.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2379

Nice. One of these days, in my non-existent spare time, I'll build
myself a high end machine. Thanks for the pointers.

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