Question about 3dMark05 freezing...

[SiliconSwitch]

Hey,

I had my opty 146 at 2.8Ghz (this is a stable oc) and my ram ay 280 3-3-3-6 (also stable) and I wanted to bench my new 7900GT CO. I found the max core (555Mhz) and I just put the ram to 1600Mhz and ran 05.

Everything worked perfectly, I scored about 9.5k.

Now I decided that the memory can probably go much more than 1600, so I kept upping it and each time running ati tools artifact test for 2 mins, at 1760 it started to get artifacts. So I backed it down to 1750 and it was artifact free for like 3 mins. I decided this was good enuf to run 3dmark 05 again.

So I ran 3dm and it went through the 3 game tests withouth a hitch and great fps, the first cpu test went fine but then nearing the end of the 2nd CPU test it just froze, I coudlnt do anything. So i rebooted and everything is fine.

My question is this, is it possible that 3dmark froze during a CPU test because of the 1750 speed on the ram of the video card? I thought CPU tests didnt even use the video card?

Or is it actually becuz the CPU wasnt stable enough so it froze?

Thanks

 

[ta addict#2]

likely was the cpu stability caused the stall