thlnk3r

Domino, how much Vcore (processor voltage) are you running? On a stock cooler 60C is to be expected especially at full load. An aftermarket cooler might be a wise choice to go with. When trying for 2.3Ghz, make sure you also place your memory on a divider. Perhaps maybe the memory frequency is to high which is causing the instability at POST. Can you share some CPU-Z screenshots of your current overclock? Include each tab if you can.

Make sure also that Cool'n'Quiet is disabled as well as anything related to Spread Spectrum and "thermal throttling".

Good luck

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N2Gaming

Thanks think3r you took the wind right out of my sails. My guess would be you have an all aluminum h/s fan and upgrading to a heat pipe type heatsink and fan would get you to prolly about 10-15 degrees cooler depending on the cooler you use and how well it is seated atop the cpu. Don't forget good thermal paste/grease. I use the grey stuff that came with my zalman 9700. A lot of people like AS5. I saw a warning in regards to as5 and water. lol I won't go there for now. There are better coolers out there for the price but I got mine on sale at Fry's for $35.00 so I bought two almost for the price of one and they seem to do the job. Are you trying to overclock using software or bios settings?

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Domino

Thanks for the help guys

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3370/cpuzjg6.jpg

That is all my CPU-Z tabs except for the about one

Btw, the vcore seems to jump anywhere from 1.32 to 1.36 most of the times. If I set my mobo to 1.38 it doesn't post......

N2Gaming

I would like to see you imitate these settings if the cards are in your favor http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=313371 good luck. I noticed your power supply is leaning towards possible problematic. Do you have access to a digital multi meter? You could test your power supply while idle and under load to see if you have any power fluctuations beyond normal values.

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Domino

No, I don't man, but I just dropped my ram to 133 instead of 166 and now I'm running at 2.3 GHz, is there any good programs to test temperature and stress it? This is the first time I've hit 2.3 GHz and loving it lol. I'm expecting to see at least 400-Watts come out of this PSU, its been running fine for the past few months on this set up so I guess it should be fine. I shouldn't be pumping anything above 350 watts?

N2Gaming

Nice another thing you could try if you have not yet is upping your dram voltage. what voltage are you running your ram at right now?

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Okay, few things. Yes Thlnk3r, I meant to say "may be" and not "is." I was in the middle of class, typos are to be expected. (I sit in the front row.)

N2Gaming, Domino has a Manchester, not a Toledo. To expect 3.0 GHz may be a bit of a pipe dream. Further, if I remember right, Death Dealer was under water? Maybe not. In any event, overclocking a Manchester and a Toledo/Denmark are two different beasts. As Joe and Pioneer will both attest to.

Now, as you found out Domino, 166 will not necessarily run at 2.5-4-4-7. You must do the math to determine what your RAM is actually running at. Since it is running at DDR 367, we would expect timings between the SPD for 333 and 400 to be the optimum stability. To test temperatures, there are a few ways to do it. You could run OCCT v2.1; the default test is an hour. This will give a quick stability run to give you a ball park. To really max the temperatures out, you can run Orthos Small FFT priority 10. Alternatively, you can run S&M 1.9.1 on the CPU (FPU) test. Also a temperature killer, but I do not recommend except to verify temperatures on a stable machine, is F@H SMP. It gets me the highest temperatures I have ever seen on my laptop, even 1º C than S&M.

Regards RAM voltage: if you do not have heat sinks on the RAM, I would not suggest running them any higher than 2.6 V. I would check in any event the temperatures of the RAM DIMMs. If you get your finger near them and feel warmth, it might be a good idea to lower their voltage or add sinks.

How are you measuring watts? Are we talking about what the outlet is providing or what the power supply is providing? If the former, remember that monitors play a large part. For example, killing my monitor reduces load on my UPS by around 130 W.

Nice OC on the FX-57 JEmmaB. I will add you to the off-site soon. Would you like to be a member as well Domino while I am adding him?

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N2Gaming

Sorry Domino if I may have momentarily gotten your hopes up.

Thanks blitz for asking if the ram has any cooling, I forgot to take this into account. Also good to know that a monitor will suck the life right out of a power supply I did not know that. I get to learn all kinds of things today.

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Right now I'm running at 2.35GHz and it seems stable. Thought there seems to be a lag when I'm typing as well, maybe that is because I have COH in the background. Anyways, my RAM is at 2.5V, and I'm not too sure how to find out my timings, that is fairly new to me, other than what it says in BIOS (just found something like that) and my PSU says 550-Watts on it, and since it is not a high quality one, I'm just expecting 400-Watts out of it. My old one was a 400-Watt and the 9600GT recommended a 450 so I just bought a 550-Watt at the time. So far everything seems stable but I haven't gone though 0CCT yet completely, so I'll give that shot. So far though, performance has jumped a lot! Thanks again guys! The timings are at auto and all those things said to be disabled are disabled now

But I thought that the PSU only had to deal with internal parts while the monitor is plugged into the wall? Plus the RAM is just stock standard everything, everything is bear on it.

Oh no worries, I saw that in your link that it was a different core, I was really just expecting to see a 400MHz oc and i'll be happy with that until I get an after market cooler, overclocking is so much fun, :O

I'm going to try 2.4GHz next, thanks fro the help guys +rep to those who can get it

boonie2

Good luck reaching the 2.4 mark