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What's holding me back???

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mewannafastpc

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the board is asus p4c800 deluxe
chip is 3.0C SL6WK
running a 3/2 divider right now so the ram is running as slow as possible ram is ocz 3700 gold rev. 2
powersupply is enermax 460
i try to get to 267 fsb but it won't POST even with 1.775volts in bios, and it won't POST again until i get to 250
it will post at 260 if i go up from 250 but now down from 267, but i don't want to get a screen shot of that right now cuz im running prime on 3.77 for 4hrs so far which is in the screeny, but the voltage reading is about the same for at 3.9ghz as it is for 3.77
what do you think is the problem??
do you think it's the cpu or motherboard?
3.77ghznewrecord.jpg
 
buy another mobo, test it out, if it yields better results keep it, if not return for refund ...
 
besides the hard drive, video card and ram what do you have hooked up to the motherboard ?
 
soundblaster audigy 2 platnium with the front bezel drive
12x burner
52x cd-rom
2harddrives 20gig WD and 80gig WD
1 floppy
 
Originally posted by mewannafastpc
soundblaster audigy 2 platnium with the front bezel drive
12x burner
52x cd-rom
2harddrives 20gig WD and 80gig WD
1 floppy
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im not sure if this is gonna help at all but disconnect the devices that are not essential for the computer to boot up into windows
 
but then i wouldn't be able to use my computer normally...:(
i don't want 4ghz if i have to unplug everything everytime i go to 4ghz
but thanx for the input...:)
 
oh my bad
koolance...
3.77ghz full load for 21hrs of two instances of prime(stopped it cuz needed to let my room cool down) got to 44C
 
^^^ I also get stuck at ~3.8GHz and i have a custom watercooling setup (35C @ 1.7V).

Im getting a peltier soon and im going to see if i can reach 4GHz.
 
Got the same Proc as you (3.0c SL6WK, Rev. D1). They're good clockers though...
Do you by the way have Kingston HyperX PC4000? I've hear that those sticks don't OC much beyond their rated 250MHz.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see you already mentioned the OCZ.
 
Originally posted by Jimmers
Got the same Proc as you (3.0c SL6WK, Rev. D1). They're good clockers though...
Do you by the way have Kingston HyperX PC4000? I've hear that those sticks don't OC much beyond their rated 250MHz.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see you already mentioned the OCZ.
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what did you oc yours too??
what fsb and what voltage did you use
 
3.59GHz, only stable enough to benchmark though with FSB=239 and Vcore=1.585v. I normally run it at 3.51GHz. My RAM's holding my back alot though, and I've got some of the mentioned hyperx PC4000 on the way. If I can get it to 3.75GHz, I think I'll be happy with that.

Do what I do:
Run prime95 "blend" test; failure=CPU or RAM fault
Run prime95 "small tff" test; failure=CPU fault, usually

If you can pass the small tff test and fail the blend test, it's more than likely that the RAM is at fault. I've found this to be a pretty good indicator of what can be done to OC. If you fail the small tff test though, you might have hit the wall of your CPU or NB.
 
i ran the small fft for 21hrs straight at 3.77 with 1.7v in bios
load voltage at 1.6v dropping to 1.58v and temp at 42C spiking to 44C once a while
 
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