Crashing

[forrehmmnd]

first off, im kinda a newb to overclocking anywhere past an extra 200 mhz with stock volts. anywho, during gaming my computer just shuts off randomly (not very intense games, battlefield vietnam etc.) i have an athlon 64 x2 4400 + at 2500 mhz and stock volts. i had it on stock before, fiddled with it a little, to see if i could go any farther and i couldnt. i kept the volts a tiny bit above stock (somethin like +.25) to give the cpu some extra juice. i didnt like the temps with those volts so i put them back to stock. before with the same oc and same stock volts it didnt do this and now it does. i dont get and beeps or anything, the computer completely shuts down like the power went out or something. anyways do you thinks its the volts or something else ? it was tested and stable with stock voltage. it doesnt do this very often, maybe once a day tops.

 

[Fox_T]

first off, im kinda a newb to overclocking anywhere past an extra 200 mhz with stock volts. anywho, during gaming my computer just shuts off randomly (not very intense games, battlefield vietnam etc.) i have an athlon 64 x2 4400 + at 2500 mhz and stock volts. i had it on stock before, fiddled with it a little, to see if i could go any farther and i couldnt. i kept the volts a tiny bit above stock (somethin like +.25) to give the cpu some extra juice. i didnt like the temps with those volts so i put them back to stock. before with the same oc and same stock volts it didnt do this and now it does. i dont get and beeps or anything, the computer completely shuts down like the power went out or something. anyways do you thinks its the volts or something else ? it was tested and stable with stock voltage. it doesnt do this very often, maybe once a day tops.

I really got no clue whats your gfx card and hou much power it consumes, but taking a wild guess - it might be your PSU thats limiting yo oc. also +.25v shouldnt do anything to your temps, as far as Im concerned

 

[Magnus]

One easy trouble shooting step is to run memtest86 to check your ram.

 

[forrehmmnd]

yeah memtest didnt work for somereason, i tried multiple cds etc. it doesnt happen with 3dmark or anything else intensive, just that 1 game.