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- Jul 14, 2001
- Location
- Edmonton, Alberta
Well, just when I thought everything was stable (over three months now running solid at 1.5GHz without a hickup) I have found a error related to overclocking that no stability program or game has picked up to this date.
The error is related to the FSB and I think the sound card is holding me back when I raise the FSB above 141MHz. Dont get me wrong, I know 141MHz FSB is pathetic and there is no way that the sound card should give up anywhere around those frequencys.
All this lead me to not enough voltage supplied to the motherboard by the PSU. It turns out that the sound card will not function 100% with my PSU at 1500MHz and using 2.08Vcore.
Before I get to far ahead of my self, the problem that I found by overclocking was noticed with Windows Media Encoder 9. When I recorded some live radio off the net and tried to replay it back after the recording, all attempts would end with distortion and a complete waist of recording time.
This issue istantly got fixed when I droped down the FSB back to 133MHz and CPU clock to 1400MHz.
Its funny, not one stability program nore game found this error. Well I guess it was a sound card related crash anywayz but still I urge all overclockers to try out this test and see if there recordings past the rest.
You too just may need a new PSU.
For me, I gotta find a way to get back to 1.5GHz even if that means going out and splurging $150 on a new PSU.
OC-Master
The error is related to the FSB and I think the sound card is holding me back when I raise the FSB above 141MHz. Dont get me wrong, I know 141MHz FSB is pathetic and there is no way that the sound card should give up anywhere around those frequencys.
All this lead me to not enough voltage supplied to the motherboard by the PSU. It turns out that the sound card will not function 100% with my PSU at 1500MHz and using 2.08Vcore.
Before I get to far ahead of my self, the problem that I found by overclocking was noticed with Windows Media Encoder 9. When I recorded some live radio off the net and tried to replay it back after the recording, all attempts would end with distortion and a complete waist of recording time.
This issue istantly got fixed when I droped down the FSB back to 133MHz and CPU clock to 1400MHz.
Its funny, not one stability program nore game found this error. Well I guess it was a sound card related crash anywayz but still I urge all overclockers to try out this test and see if there recordings past the rest.
You too just may need a new PSU.
For me, I gotta find a way to get back to 1.5GHz even if that means going out and splurging $150 on a new PSU.
OC-Master