Doctor Feel
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Might have just had a very close call
In a desperate attempt to get decent performance in FO4 I tried to OC my old ass 920 model i7 from 2.66ghz to 3ghz (right)
But then my PC wouldnt even get to the mobo start up screen (what is this called?) before collapsing. I turned it off at the wall for 5 and tried again, managed to get it back down to 2.66 and thankfully it's restarted but I'm paranoid it's a ticking time bomb.
Hng.
To answer the first question, it's called "post" or "posting". The second question, it would have done nothing to your hardware. Especially if it didn't post. Most intel processors have some sort of a pre-configured "extreme" mode which is generally a 2-300mhz increase, if you haven't done that - give that a go. It's generally stable and safe. The real problem is as stu has suggested, the problem with your RAM is that between your RAM and your graphics card, there wouldn't be enough memory to store all the shaders and what not. This is probably a big cause of the stuttering as your card and ram drops it's cache to make room for the next few frames. It's basically bursting at the seams and as a result it drops and misses frames entirely.







