Possible?

[mudajama]

I have an ecs a780gm-a v1.1. I know that this board is not friendly to oc'ing. What actually makes boards hard if not impossible to oc. Is there anything to be done to help it out.

 

[blackersabbath]

To overclock, you need BIOS options to be able to raise FSB and vcore among other things. If your board doesn't have these options in your BIOS, that can make things difficult.

 

[mudajama]

oh it has everything needed. It just crashes.

 

[blackersabbath]

I would read one of the stickies about overclocking. Sometimes to get stability you have to raise the vcore but you need adequate cooling too and a good power supply. You don't want to overheat your cpu. Can you post your complete specs?

 

[QuietIce]

I'm not familiar with that particular board but bad OC'ing can have a couple of causes and they're all related to the quality of the board components. Sometimes it's something very simple like a marginal heatsink on the NB or SB that causes overheating. More often, it's the power delivery system using marginal chips, which causes fluctuations in voltage for the various components. If I had to guess I'd say it's the latter in this case - and probably no cooling on the power chips (to the left of the CPU).


As a last-ditch effort you might try cooling the power chips better. What CPU heatsink do you use ...?