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wierd overclock problem

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tazman

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ok here's the story i recently got myself an ashtek water cooling set up the antaric one with north bridge and vga included i set this up on my 2500xp barton using an abit nf7-s rev 2 mobo.

this is where it gets wierd before this i had a monster copper heatsink and fan and could run all day long at 2.2 3200xp and now with the waterblock installed i run cooler but cant even overclock the cpu past default current temps are 34 idle .

could it be that i have damaged the cpu when tightening the block down but i was told if i had done this the cpu would be slow and run really hot and at 34 degrees i dont see that as hot unless its the water cooling system doing a great job at keeping it low

hope you can shed some light on this

thanks in advance

ps
if i have damamged the cpu any suggestions on what chip to go for and how to tell the wife i need a new cpu
 
As you don't mention system instability running at stock speed, then I would figure that the CPU is fine.
I'd look for a silly BIOS setting or something else you might have bodged during the install to solve the problem.
 
ok so i have no instabilty during ruuning at stock speed but before i did the convert to water i was running fine at 3200xp speeds and now i cant even get it to boot at that was just wondering if it was the chip so if its not what else could it be i have tried every think i can think of in the bios and get errors every time

could it be the motherboard then if i have damaged a track on the board or somethink when tightening the chipset water block on ?

i just havent got a clue
 
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