- Joined
- Aug 24, 2004
- Location
- Little Rock, AR
Hey guys,
So, I've finally got my box back together, as stated in my sig (except that one of those 512mb sticks gave up the ghost). My only problem is that my overclock just... sucks.
When I increase things over ~218FSB, it locks hard. It's not always immediate. I managed to turn up the voltage and get things as far as 230 yesterday, but when I left it alone it locked hard. It primes fine at all of these speeds... no issues the entire time it runs, which on occasion has been hours. But then it locks.
I thought this was my PSU, because a lot of these components are reused from a similar setup where I had no problem crossing the 3600 line, but now I have a Geforce 6800 GT in there too... so I replaced it. I have an Antec TruePower 430 in there now, and my rails are about as close to rock solid as they can get, but this hasn't changed things.
I thought it might be the RAM after that, but I've cranked the ratio way down on it with no positive effect. Exact same issue.
Cooling is more than sufficient for this kind of setup. My NB is actively cooled, and my CPU has a big copper Aerocool HT-101 on it. Not the best in the world or anything, but even @ 1.6v I'm at or just under 50C at load.
My PCI/AGP/SRC are all locked.
Any thoughts on what might be slowing me down?
So, I've finally got my box back together, as stated in my sig (except that one of those 512mb sticks gave up the ghost). My only problem is that my overclock just... sucks.
When I increase things over ~218FSB, it locks hard. It's not always immediate. I managed to turn up the voltage and get things as far as 230 yesterday, but when I left it alone it locked hard. It primes fine at all of these speeds... no issues the entire time it runs, which on occasion has been hours. But then it locks.
I thought this was my PSU, because a lot of these components are reused from a similar setup where I had no problem crossing the 3600 line, but now I have a Geforce 6800 GT in there too... so I replaced it. I have an Antec TruePower 430 in there now, and my rails are about as close to rock solid as they can get, but this hasn't changed things.
I thought it might be the RAM after that, but I've cranked the ratio way down on it with no positive effect. Exact same issue.
Cooling is more than sufficient for this kind of setup. My NB is actively cooled, and my CPU has a big copper Aerocool HT-101 on it. Not the best in the world or anything, but even @ 1.6v I'm at or just under 50C at load.
My PCI/AGP/SRC are all locked.
Any thoughts on what might be slowing me down?