sleepeeg3 said:The problem is, you aren't lowering the CPU multi, RAM divider and HT multi to tell if it's a CPU or board issue. That's a pretty basic step in overclocking you need to do. Accept that just because everyone else says they are getting 2.7GHz, does not mean the chip you have is going to do the same. What is this, 2nd grade?
Damn.
Not to mention the fact that people lie... consistently about their overclocks and give others frustration and false expectations. What with all the grade inflation in schools, it starts transposing itself onto the real... er electronic world. Saunter over to XS and take a gander at the travesty that has taken over.
Repeat after me, "It is just a chip." Do yourself a favor and read a basic overclocking sticky.
In case it's not the chip and it is the board, there is not much you can do about it except buy and try another. What revision do you have? I think a big portion of people having problems were those with the v1.0 rev A01 boards. The one v1.0 board that maxed out at around 285 and was incompatable with single core Opterons/Biostar OC utility. Two v1.1 boards maxed out at 315 and had no issues with the single core Opteron.
I have a v1.0 board. I do not know if it's an Axx model or not. How would I check?
I've tried lowering the RAM multi to 100Mhz, and I still can't post past FSB=258. I've pulled my 6600GT to see if that's my limiter, and it isn't. I thought that the video card might be my problem because whenever I try to overclock, the LED_D1 light is off, and that's a VGA error.
---EDIT---
I can post at FSB=260
CPU Multi=9
HTT Multi=4
RAM=133Mhz
--EDIT #2---
The highest I can get my computer to POST is
FSB=260
CPU Multi= 10
HTT Multi= 4
RAM= 133Mhz
(That's 2599 Mhz.)
I cannot post at FSB=>261
CPU Multi=8, 9, or 10
HTT Multi= 3, or 4
RAM= 133
Cannot boot OS at higher than FSB=240... #@$%!