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Having ordered my brand spankin new Q6600 GO, 4Gb OCZ and Gigabyte P35 DS3P last week and have it arrive yesterday morning, as you can imagine i was eager to get it all setup and running, 3 hours later after a complete system rebuild, I set about re-installing Vista Ultimate. 2 Hours later after all is done, all software back in the system and everything quiet peachy I decided now its time to overclock this sucker.
My previous Opteron 170 was watercooled and because the CPU block is compatible with the skt775 system I decided to use the same system, obviously after flushing the water out of it and refilling etc. Well It was all working fine, but as I entered the bios to start overclocking, something went wrong and I didnt even notice it.
So I put the FSB upto 400, multi to 9 expecting to get a nice 3600Mhz clock speed when I start the system up again, expect well, I Dont.
Instead im greeted with a constant system restart, thinking wtf is going on I shut it all down for a few mins then fire it back up put the settings to default and turn it again. Same thing happened again constant restarting.
Well after waiting few more minutes I switch it back on, go back into the bios and this time check PC Health.
OMFG the CPU is at 71c idle in bios.
My bloody Pump had died on me!.
If that had been at the overclocked settings and under load in windows, my poor CPU would have been toast instantly. Thank god it died before I started stressing the system.
Luckily its all still ok and a new pump is on the way.
**** Long story short, always check your waterpump is working before attempting an overclock on new hardware ****
Having ordered my brand spankin new Q6600 GO, 4Gb OCZ and Gigabyte P35 DS3P last week and have it arrive yesterday morning, as you can imagine i was eager to get it all setup and running, 3 hours later after a complete system rebuild, I set about re-installing Vista Ultimate. 2 Hours later after all is done, all software back in the system and everything quiet peachy I decided now its time to overclock this sucker.
My previous Opteron 170 was watercooled and because the CPU block is compatible with the skt775 system I decided to use the same system, obviously after flushing the water out of it and refilling etc. Well It was all working fine, but as I entered the bios to start overclocking, something went wrong and I didnt even notice it.
So I put the FSB upto 400, multi to 9 expecting to get a nice 3600Mhz clock speed when I start the system up again, expect well, I Dont.
Instead im greeted with a constant system restart, thinking wtf is going on I shut it all down for a few mins then fire it back up put the settings to default and turn it again. Same thing happened again constant restarting.
Well after waiting few more minutes I switch it back on, go back into the bios and this time check PC Health.
OMFG the CPU is at 71c idle in bios.
My bloody Pump had died on me!.
If that had been at the overclocked settings and under load in windows, my poor CPU would have been toast instantly. Thank god it died before I started stressing the system.
Luckily its all still ok and a new pump is on the way.
**** Long story short, always check your waterpump is working before attempting an overclock on new hardware ****
