Flack88

Ill back that up aswell

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rx7speed

if the os is unstable though that should cause a crash be it running stock/overclocked/underclocked. that would be a software related crash.


overclockign would cause a hardware related crash.
how is the os going to make the hardware overcome noise, misread bits, dropped bits, and such. ie in a very simplistic example os says we have 2+2 whats that equal and the hardware goes ok 2+3=5 unless they also implented error checking which would have some nasty overhead.

RPIJG

obviously that isn't the case, as you can boot into windows and run perfectly fine with a less than fully stable overclock. So OS resource allocation and instructions play an integral part in stability.

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TaiDinh

So... Just install that file like a regular hot fix? No reformatting needed?

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Jaggo

too bad I have the french version of Windows!

blupupher

Funny thin is, I installed this, and had the first program lock up in a long time (Picasa2, which I installed right after the reboot of the SP3 install).
Otherwise, I notice no difference at all.

Miki

I've been using SP3 for a while now, haven't had any issues at all. I recommend everyone to go for it.

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thanx for the info...
downloading

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rx7speed

true I have seen as my system was like that for a while. in the end it is still a hardware crash.

resource allocations and instructions can play a part in stability your right I won't deny that. but when overclocking the failure is usually caused by the hardware. memtest is a great example of this. memtest itself is a stable program free from a huge os, external programs, and a lot of other thigns taht can go wrong. so when it fails you know it is hardware based be it ram, mobo, cpu. it wasn't a software failure. when running that test I would fail at the same spot the same way everytime and yet the rest of the test ran perfect. the computer still worked for most anything I wanted to do in windows also.
software can't fix that error though as it wasn't a hardware error. only way software would be able to correct that situation is through error checking which would slow the computer down quite a bit.

I don't deny that the os plays a very important part in stability. look at ME for example and I don't think many of us here would call that a stable os. but that is os stability still. NOT overclock/hardware stability.

mtbiker033

anyone have any benchmarks before an after?

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