Please help, i stuffed another board

[Flasher]

Well i did OC it and yes it stuffed up again 🙁

The same thing happened to my Asus P5K last month, i had it replaced under Warranty because it was found faulty.

Current Rig:
E6300@2.8ghz
GA-DS3R
2GB Kingston DDR800, 5-5-5-18
XFX 8800GTS
Creative XFI
Antec 550W PSU, 3x18A

Firstly 400FSB, mem 2.0@800mhz, cpu v 3.335, locked PCIE@100mhz booted fine at 2.8ghz as you would expect. Went into WinXP and ran Orthos small ffts for 24hours. No problems, temps at 49deg full load. Opened a couple of games and there you go, same problems as last OC. see screenie below.

Before OC:

After OC:

Rebooted, Went back to stock clocks immidiately, into windows, tested game again at stock settings, same problem. Formated hard drive, re-installed XP, drivers, and a couple of games....same problem...took out motherboard, using a spare Asus P5B for now.

Once again the mobo has sustained permanent damage.

BTW it's not the video card or PSU, i had it running for days without problems until OC'ing.

Any idea how this could have happened?

 

[akhilles]

That sucks.

Overclocking is luck of the draw. No guarantee everyone will get the same results even with the same parts. And there's a risk in o/cing. This is one of them.

Are you sure the vcore is 3.335v & not 1.335v?

Disconnect everything, let them cool down, wait for a day, clear cmos, try games at stock.

 

[little_scrapper]

Put standoffs on the mobo tray before you mount the MOBO to it.

hehe hehe

3.3V Vcore is definately your problem.

"running for days without problems" is NOT a valid claim that its not your PSU or video card. Your video card AND/OR you PSU may not be able to handle ANY OC. Period. You OC may be the problem.