Should I upgrade to Windows 7?

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:The fan is attached to the CPU with thermal grease.

NaturalViolence, for all the help you've given, you haven't found the issue. It is the memory multiplier - it is set too high to begin overclocking at.

First off I think you meant to say air cooler not fan once again. If you attached a fan to your cpu with thermal grease that would mean you have no heatsink. Second intel cpus don't have a memory multiplier, they have a memory clock. I am not completely sure if you are referring to the memory clock or the link ratio (which is a ratio between memory clock and fsb clock). Are you saying you've figured out that your NB can't handle the high frequency memory while overclocking?

[belomeclone]

http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200706/xigmatekHDTS963_side.jpg

That is what is on my CPU. Are you happy? I may not know the correct words, but I know what I am doing.

And, it'd be the link ratio, I belive. I don't know the term either, but I do know what others have told me. It has not resulted in anything either, I lowered my RAM to 800.

[NaturalViolence]

Calm down. I'm not trying to insult you I'm just having trouble figuring out what your saying. So you tried lowing the memory clock and that didn't help? That's a very good air cooler so your clearly not having heat issues. Your power supply is 610 watt continous which should be more than enough for what your trying to do as well. Hmmm, I'm starting to think this is a motherboard issue.

[MetalJody]

Dolphin runs better on 7 than XP. I tested F-zero gx, and 7 starts most races at 50-60, and XP starts at 25-40. If you can make 2 partitions on ur harddrive, definitely get 7, but keep XP as primary. Upgrading didn't cause any data loss

[Diathorus]

Just do it if you got X64 processor or a lot of RAM, also, if your card supports OpenCL better run windows 7 otherwise you will see it crashing.