PLZ explain DOT settings

Question

can one of you gents provide a link or tell me here what exactly the settings for dymanic overclocking do, i cant find anything in the manual nor here.
what exactly is the purpose of private seargent capt general settings
i have found no difference when using each setting and rebooting.
seriously what are these supposedly suppose to do ?
i assume General means more flexibility and choices when overclocking. and private limits your overclocking.
but appearently, they dont do anything, at least for me.
thats not entirely true, i believe yesterday when i was messing with them, Private caused the AGP and PCI frequency to raise when i overclocked the FSB, but after trying it again, it stopped. meaning it never changed.
which is best. General, Private, Disabled, Colonel  ?
and WHY oh WHY did MSI make the AGP/PCI frequency have only 3 settings! ?? this is so frustrating as i would like to bump up those settings only a SMALL amount but i cant, it takes a huge jump instead of tiny steps. same with the voltage settings, that is a very poor choice for MSI to make the voltage's only go up in .5 or .05 volt increments.  can MSI PLEASEPLEASE PLEASE add this to the next bios so we can increase voltages by .1 or .01 ? PLEASE!
i know Infineon DDR isnt the best, but why do i have to set the PAT on SLOW.  everything else causes lockups and reboots in windows even when i do NOT overclock
. this is VERY VERY frustrating becuase i am loosing alot of performance when i have to set the RAM to  SLOW.
also how can i tell if i have the 865PE NEO2  or the 865PE NEO2 PFISR ??  i thought when i got this mobo it was the PFISR, but looking at pictures the PFISR does NOT have a northbridge FAN.  MY mobo has the Northbridge fan and blinking LED lights,  (which btw is really cool but they only blink 1/2 the time, most of the time they are solid color)
many thanks in advance for your help!
Lestat.

Answer 1

D.O.T = Dynamic Overclocking Technology.
It's just a layman method of overclocking your CPU speed and at the same time adjusting the RAMs performance to suit the flow after o/c. Capability of o/c will be dependent on how much your system can handle with the hardwares that you've got, ranged between 3% to 10%. The traditional way of o/c'ing is by adjusting your FSB to your needs and DRAM Freq and timings to suit the speed D.I.Y. I preferred the traditional ways of o/c so disabled D.O.T and D.I.Y is the BEST !
The reason why you can't get above slow is due to the your RAMs vs the CPU(after o/c) as timings tends to run too tight in certain occasions and freezes or restarts will occur during these periods, some even suffer BSOD. If you want to get above slow for PAT, you can try some other RAMs like HyperX etc. Surf through the forums to get a better understanding 1st.
AGP/PCI Freq is something that I can really agree with you on as many has got this 1MHz increment thingy for this area already, I would not list which manufacturers.
MSI Neo2 FIS2R is the one with NB Fans & Fancy lights, Promise Controller for both IDE and SATA Raid, whereas the MSI Neo2 PFISR is the one without the Promise controllor, but instead a VIA controller is there to control SATA drives and RAID Funtion, please note that there'll be no availability of IDE Raid for this model and the NB Heatsink is fanless.