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Can installing a second harddrive affect your overclock?

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oqvist

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I am trying to get a hold on why I all suddenly are forced down to 190 FSB from 210 FSB? CPU speed is more or less the same.

I have installed a IBM 60 GXP as slave on the primary channel to my WD 800JB harddrive. I have had some trouble with the IBM 60 GXP in the past so it may not be 100 % healthy. But overclocking the FSB don´t affect the harddrives on a nforce 2 mainboard right?

Sometimes it take ages to load windows XP when running higher FSB and I can hear my one of my harddrive struggle. Hard to tell which it´s but one definiatly struggles hard. But I have windows installed and everything on my main harddrive and only have downloaded files on my secondary so I find that strange that my second harddrive would cause those sometimes slow loads. And as said clocking lower seem to fix these symptoms that I never had before I installed my second harddrive.

Temps are the same as always.
 
my guess would be a psu problem. If your psu was just able to get the job done before, it may be overloaded by the new harddrive. Thus, when you clock your cpu lower, lowering the wattage it requires you can use the hardrive due to the reduced power demand from the processor


what kind of psu do you have
 
Originally posted by c00z
my guess would be a psu problem. If your psu was just able to get the job done before, it may be overloaded by the new harddrive. Thus, when you clock your cpu lower, lowering the wattage it requires you can use the hardrive due to the reduced power demand from the processor


what kind of psu do you have
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Antec Truepower 550W. Perhaps I need a 1000 W :( :p
 
nah that is by far enough power....herm....your board also locks the pci and agp busses......your fsb isnt high enough to cause corruption...shit..i am at a loss..ideas boyz
 
I shouldnt bother your OC man. Im running 3 hard drives and so far the highest ive tested my mobo was only 240 FSB...the CPU wont prime at that speed but everything else plays fine..no big deal since my mobile 2500+ will be here soon :)
however when I got my NF7-S I put a SATA Seagate drive on it and boom it gave me all sorts of shit...all I did was change the lead it was connected to and everything went away.
Try swapping the lead on the PSU its plugged in to and see if that helps.
 
Originally posted by Visable-assassin
I shouldnt bother your OC man. Im running 3 hard drives and so far the highest ive tested my mobo was only 240 FSB...the CPU wont prime at that speed but everything else plays fine..no big deal since my mobile 2500+ will be here soon :)
however when I got my NF7-S I put a SATA Seagate drive on it and boom it gave me all sorts of shit...all I did was change the lead it was connected to and everything went away.
Try swapping the lead on the PSU its plugged in to and see if that helps.
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Well I have really no idea what happened to my OC so I am testing all possible and impossible scenarios really. Maybe some part in my system is about to die on me.
 
Originally posted by oqvist
Well I have really no idea what happened to my OC so I am testing all possible and impossible scenarios really. Maybe some part in my system is about to die on me.
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well anything is possible bro to be honest.
have you tried moving the hard drive to a completely different lead ont he power supply?
I know for my seagate SATA that fixed it 100%
 
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