OCZ Agility 3 60GB & overclock

Pilgrim57

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Now on 2.11 firmware & have reinstalled Win 7 after Secure erase & cleared cmos.
Previously with a WD Black hdd I had two overclocks:
1. Q9550 default 2.83GHz to 3.4 100% stable
2. 3.782 stable except due to user error & on reboot after win/program updates. since dropped FSB from 445 to 442 = 3.757GHz with SSD

SSD is stable on 1. but 2 leads to BSOD's within minutes [ would run for several days with 2.09].
ASUS P5Q-E mobo. Have upped volts on CPU, CPU Pll, NB, NB GTL without effect.
Use a Startech PCIE card & have increased SB & PCIE Sata volts by 1 step from default. Tried SB from 1.2 to 1.3 & PC froze.
Tried connecting to SATA 2 port on mobo & BSODed on 2. just the same, so its not the PCIE card.

OcUK have said having an SSD shouldn't affect overclock, so is the drive duff?
The BSOD's don't happen when the drive is moving large amounts of data. Within 5-10 minutes of booting. BOINC running on hdd
At lot are Hal.dll + ntoskml.exe errors but others before reinstall weren't.

I have tried taking the CPU GTL 0/2 & 1/3 of auto but can't seem to find a setting that is stable.

Any advise welxomed
 
Hal and ntoskrnl errors both point to something going pretty wrong with the boot process, I bet if you tried to boot a linux livecd (ie taking the ssd and windows out of the equation) at your overclocked speed you'd get a kernel panic. Your overclock isn't stable any more, you'll need to give it more juice or work your way back to a stable clock.

Fooling with your GTL might get you a little more performance out at the top end, but for now I'd start small again.
 
The $64,000 question is more juice where:confused: Thanks for the answer.
CPU PLL is 1.6 tried 1.62
NB is 1.4 tried 1.42
FSB Termination is 1.4 tried 1.42
These are all suggested max. volts
Althought I have seen CPU Pll can go to 1.66 & NB to 1.48

Apart from CPU volts I'm using settings that someone got their Q9550 to 4.2GHz. Oh, I set CPU to 1.36 in BIOS & PC didn't boot.

With HDD was on 1.34ish now got to 1.35 then 1.35625 which gives 1.34 with CPU-Z after vDroop [got loadline calibration enabled]
CPU margin set to Performance - should I try optimised? No idea what this does.

I have both Linux cd & usb stick might try 1 tomorrow & see what happens.
 
Justintime said:
Ram rated at? Also best to run 1:1 ratio with cpu.
Click to expand...

Ram is Corsair Defender DDR 2 1066MHz @ 2.1 volts 5-5-5-15
1. runs @ 400 strap = 1066
2. runs @ 333 strap = 1069/1064

Have tested priously with MemTest & it passes. Previously i.e. 2years ago had it running on only 1.9v at 1. settings
 
Seems CPU needs more volts now on 1.36250 in BIOS CPU-z shows it fluctuating between 1.344 & 1.36.
Booted to Linux live CD Ubuntu 10.4 & USB 11.04 no problems before I upped volts.
Now have ram 1:1 950MHz. Maybe the SSD is more sensitive to this?
 
Well it ran ok until the win updates this morning the BSOD on reboot.
Changed CPU margin from performance to optimised. That didn't help BSOD again.
Do'nt want to put more volts through CPU & at a loss short of try PCIE Sata @ 1.7 but don't want to fry my new 560Ti.
So back to 8.5 x 400:( but at least that is stable & cooler.
 
Hmmm I recently encountered a similar issue, I was running my x6 1055t @ 3.5ghz and 1.275v but other day I done a win7 re install and my OC failed I ended up having to marginally increase the voltage to 1.28125 to get it booting where as it was 100% stable before the win7 install.

This was all done on an agility3 60gb running firmware 2.11 so no issues with overclock or voltage with previous or current firmware but only on win7 re install and updates

P.S. I was running 2.11 for about a week before re install and the issues happened from the get go
 
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