Feek
13-04-2008, 21:53
Check your connections.
A few months ago I fitted an extra hard drive into my PC and within a day or so I discovered I could no longer overclock the box. No matter what I set the BIOS at, I couldn't persuade it to boot at the higher speed. I assumed that the extra hard drive was driving the PSU just a tad too much and went back to stock speeds.
Today I was moving some cables around in the box and I noticed that one end of the main power cable onto the motherboard was raised by just a couple of mm. Obviously the connections were being made because the system was working, but it wasn't how it should be.
I reseated the connector properly and went back to the BIOS and set the speeds back to how they were previously.
*bingo*
http://www.ukrm.org/feek/temp/overclock-20080413-215240.png
Back to full overclock speed - It's an E6600 (2.4GHz) running at 3.1GHz.
This makes me happy :)
A few months ago I fitted an extra hard drive into my PC and within a day or so I discovered I could no longer overclock the box. No matter what I set the BIOS at, I couldn't persuade it to boot at the higher speed. I assumed that the extra hard drive was driving the PSU just a tad too much and went back to stock speeds.
Today I was moving some cables around in the box and I noticed that one end of the main power cable onto the motherboard was raised by just a couple of mm. Obviously the connections were being made because the system was working, but it wasn't how it should be.
I reseated the connector properly and went back to the BIOS and set the speeds back to how they were previously.
*bingo*
http://www.ukrm.org/feek/temp/overclock-20080413-215240.png
Back to full overclock speed - It's an E6600 (2.4GHz) running at 3.1GHz.
This makes me happy :)