Specs:
-Asus Striker Extreme Mobo
-Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Kentsfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor
-EVGA 768-P2-N885-AR GeForce 8800Ultra KO 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
-Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
-*GeIL Black Dragon 4GB(4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Quad Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model GB24GB6400C4QC (only using two sticks, I thought 4 sticks of ram were giving me blue screens of death, but it might it be that just their location (the two slots closer to the CPU heatstink) are overheating?, it seems that when two sticks are on the two farthest slots from the heatsink, they don't overheat or cause restarts.)
-Antec TruePower Trio 650 Watt PSU
I recently got a new fan, as I assumed my old fan caused a lot of un-necessary restarts. The Fan is a ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler, and I did notice my temps being lowered.
Up until now, the methods by which I attempted overclocking failed. nVidia's NVTune keeps restarting the computer after crashes, won't restart by itself, and doesn't seem to change anything.
In the BIOS, when I try the Asus AI NOS overclocking, I get boot failure. When I use the CPU multiplier (default set to 9), I can go up to 10 pretty stable, but still experience problems sometimes with freezes. If I go anywhere beyond that, it will either freeze on boot, or just not start up and have to reset the CMOS.
I am thinking it's not the heat that's casuing these problems, but rather the methods by which I am trying to overclock, and not setting the voltages correctly. So I am here to ask some of the people familiar with overclocking whether I can safely get a performance boost with the hardware and temps I am getting.
PICS:
Idle Status:
While Running nVidia stability Test - "Stressed":
Thanks for any speculation, or leading me to any guides that could be useful in manually overclocking with my hardware.
-Asus Striker Extreme Mobo
-Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Kentsfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor
-EVGA 768-P2-N885-AR GeForce 8800Ultra KO 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
-Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
-*GeIL Black Dragon 4GB(4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Quad Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model GB24GB6400C4QC (only using two sticks, I thought 4 sticks of ram were giving me blue screens of death, but it might it be that just their location (the two slots closer to the CPU heatstink) are overheating?, it seems that when two sticks are on the two farthest slots from the heatsink, they don't overheat or cause restarts.)
-Antec TruePower Trio 650 Watt PSU
I recently got a new fan, as I assumed my old fan caused a lot of un-necessary restarts. The Fan is a ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler, and I did notice my temps being lowered.
Up until now, the methods by which I attempted overclocking failed. nVidia's NVTune keeps restarting the computer after crashes, won't restart by itself, and doesn't seem to change anything.
In the BIOS, when I try the Asus AI NOS overclocking, I get boot failure. When I use the CPU multiplier (default set to 9), I can go up to 10 pretty stable, but still experience problems sometimes with freezes. If I go anywhere beyond that, it will either freeze on boot, or just not start up and have to reset the CMOS.
I am thinking it's not the heat that's casuing these problems, but rather the methods by which I am trying to overclock, and not setting the voltages correctly. So I am here to ask some of the people familiar with overclocking whether I can safely get a performance boost with the hardware and temps I am getting.
PICS:
Idle Status:
While Running nVidia stability Test - "Stressed":
Thanks for any speculation, or leading me to any guides that could be useful in manually overclocking with my hardware.