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is my PSU preventing overclocking?

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Just recently I updated my e6600 to a Q6600 and I have been trying to overclock it with no luck. I have spent much time over on the eVGA forums tweaking this and that but still cannot get a stable overclock over 2.6 ghz...stock is 2.4ghz so yeah, that sucks. My e6600 could do 3ghz with no problem. I am wondering if my PC&C silencer 750W is holding me back. I have a Q6600, 4 x 1gb corsair dominator 8500, 7 nexus 120mm case fans, 2 x 8800 GTX, 3 x 500gb 7200.10 hard drives, G15 keyboard and G5 mouse, and a logitech USB microphone.


Now at work I have basically the exact same setup but with 1 less 8800GTX and I can overclock it to 3ghz easy. I am just trying to weed out some ideas of what is preventing me from overclocking.
 
Unlikely; Try pulling 2 sticks of ram, to see if that helps.
 
I was able to overclock fine with 4 sticks and my e6600. By pulling out 2 sticks of memory, what will I prove?
 
Apparently I have the AR version of the eVGA 680i board and they are famous for being terrible and overclocking quad cores.
 
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