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Seanydude678
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n°1820203
05-15-2008 at 10:52:48 PM

I have an unknown brand 450w power supply and an E2160.
My ram is running at 667mhz and I have an ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2. My problem is that I can get it up to 2.4ghz tops and it's completely unstable. I can keep it running at 2.0 for a while, but it still reboots itself after awhile. Is my psu causing this nonsense?

Everything I have in my pc
- 1 dvd-rw combo drive
BFG 9600gt
E2160
1 uv cold cathode
1 blue cold cathode
1 80gig WD HDD
2 80mm fans
1 120mm fan
1 creative sound blaster sound card
1 10/100/1000 gigabit ethernet card
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 motherboard

Should I get a better PSU for more stable overclocking? or is my motherboard the issue? Thanks for helping, suggestions are appreciated

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n°1820206
05-15-2008 at 11:03:27 PM

It is without a shadow of a doubt that mobo. It is based very similar to my old (EVIL) mobo which doesn't get past 285FSB. I know that won't be whats limiting you atm, but i can almost say i'm 100% sure it'll be mobo related.

Get yourself the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L an you could get it to 3.4ghz with good enough cooling, but your RAM will limit you to only 3ghz.

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n°1820209
05-15-2008 at 11:28:53 PM

^+1

Also just replace the PSU just to be safe. Newegg has good price on the Corsair 550VX.


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n°1820210
05-15-2008 at 11:30:09 PM

^+1

Mobo AND PSU

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n°1820213
05-15-2008 at 11:43:53 PM

May as well put in another vote for a new mobo and PSU. As cheap as ram is right now, might as well buy some good ram at the same time, though that's not the most necessary thing.


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n°1820225
05-16-2008 at 12:15:09 AM

Id have to go with the Mobo, the ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2's are a combo board which will have issues at higher FSB. I believe the PSU will be fine though... e2160's are not big power draws nor is the 9600gt and you dont have a whole lot of over devices.

Mobo only


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n°1820256
05-16-2008 at 01:56:19 AM

Best summed up by Sailer.

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n°1845194
07-31-2008 at 10:18:18 PM

Hit up the good ol' Egg for a new PSU and Mobo.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139005
Corsair 650 for 80$ After MIR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703009
PC Power&Cooling 750 for 120$ After MIR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128337
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L 85$ (New Model Replacing GA-P35-DS3L)


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