- Joined
- Mar 19, 2001
- Location
- Dallas, TX.
First off, I know this is related to a "Power Supply" questions, but more importantly, it an overclock issue with the IT7-MAX 2. As you can see from my signature, I have alot of hardware on this board and I am concerned that my power supply may be be a potential pitfall with my new system. Can a Power Supply hold one back from overclocking? I have looked at the bios/memory voltage numbers and they appear to be stable. Fluxuate a little.
The reason I ask is: My current overclock has the FSB @ 150 X 21 @ 1.525v with absolutely no problem at all. I stressed it out all night (SIsoft) and it didn't bat an eye. As soon as I take the FSB to 152(+) I get serious instability. Sometines it won't boot in WIndows, other times it crashed running different apps and games. Logic says that I need more voltage for the CPU. I've gone in increments of .25 all the way to 1.725 and have yet to establish any stability over 150 FSB. I have plenty of headroom with my Cosair 3500 cas2(I think?). I have the PCI locked at 33x. I have the DRAM timings 2-6-3-3 and have attempted 3:4 and 1:1 on "LOW" settings. Any thoughts from the experts out there? By the way, I have the "AV" BIOS.
I'm beginning to think:
a) the CPU is maxed out (seems odd that it would max out at 1.525 volts)
b) the Power suply can't handle the increase in volts?
The reason I ask is: My current overclock has the FSB @ 150 X 21 @ 1.525v with absolutely no problem at all. I stressed it out all night (SIsoft) and it didn't bat an eye. As soon as I take the FSB to 152(+) I get serious instability. Sometines it won't boot in WIndows, other times it crashed running different apps and games. Logic says that I need more voltage for the CPU. I've gone in increments of .25 all the way to 1.725 and have yet to establish any stability over 150 FSB. I have plenty of headroom with my Cosair 3500 cas2(I think?). I have the PCI locked at 33x. I have the DRAM timings 2-6-3-3 and have attempted 3:4 and 1:1 on "LOW" settings. Any thoughts from the experts out there? By the way, I have the "AV" BIOS.
I'm beginning to think:
a) the CPU is maxed out (seems odd that it would max out at 1.525 volts)
b) the Power suply can't handle the increase in volts?