I put together a cheap overclocked gaming rig about three months ago:
E5200 with XIG 1283
ASUS P5Q SE PLUS
asus radeon 4870
4gb dominator memory
antec 500W PS
etc.
I found my FSB was nice and stable at 339MHz with FSB voltage at 1.3. I eventually settled on a 11x multi and vcore of 1.36 (I had to set it at 1.4 to get it there). This ran mostly stable (fine with orthos, OCCT, super-pi), except every few days it would randomly reboot when I was playing Empire: Total War.
Last night I had to move my computer from one room to another, which I did pretty carefully and without incident. But somehow my OC became completely unstable. Now with any FSB above 330 I get corrupt or missing file errors (failed checksum) on core windows files and it doesn't even approach booting. 300-330 churn out BSODs. So now I'm at a 300MHz FSB with the same 11x multi and I severely doubt it will pass a full night of Orthos.
What do you guys thing went wrong with the move? My best guesses are that the big XIG fan may have unsettled the CPU a little (temps are about the same as before, though), the NB feels a little hot and I haven't done anything to the stock thermal compound on the MB so that's on my mind, and finally I'm wondering if using a different outlet could be making a difference. I don't have a UPS on there just surge protector (...). I'd appreciate any thoughts you guys could give me. I don't want a flat out 10% reduction in performance.
E5200 with XIG 1283
ASUS P5Q SE PLUS
asus radeon 4870
4gb dominator memory
antec 500W PS
etc.
I found my FSB was nice and stable at 339MHz with FSB voltage at 1.3. I eventually settled on a 11x multi and vcore of 1.36 (I had to set it at 1.4 to get it there). This ran mostly stable (fine with orthos, OCCT, super-pi), except every few days it would randomly reboot when I was playing Empire: Total War.
Last night I had to move my computer from one room to another, which I did pretty carefully and without incident. But somehow my OC became completely unstable. Now with any FSB above 330 I get corrupt or missing file errors (failed checksum) on core windows files and it doesn't even approach booting. 300-330 churn out BSODs. So now I'm at a 300MHz FSB with the same 11x multi and I severely doubt it will pass a full night of Orthos.
What do you guys thing went wrong with the move? My best guesses are that the big XIG fan may have unsettled the CPU a little (temps are about the same as before, though), the NB feels a little hot and I haven't done anything to the stock thermal compound on the MB so that's on my mind, and finally I'm wondering if using a different outlet could be making a difference. I don't have a UPS on there just surge protector (...). I'd appreciate any thoughts you guys could give me. I don't want a flat out 10% reduction in performance.
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