BSOD when overclocking

FarleyUK · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:47

Hi all,

After building my new system, I've had it running at stock speeds for a week now, and tried OC'ing the CPU last night. This resulted in the BSOD when Vista boots, with the IRQL LESS THAN EQUAL error.

I have an AMD X2 6000+ CPU, which is running at 215MHz instead of the 200MHz at stock, and it's OK so far. Everything else is set to auto, apart from PCI-E frequency (101MHz), RAM (4 x 1GB GEIl DDR800, 4-4-4-12 800MHz).

Full spec:

ASUS M2N-SLi DELUXE
AMD X2 6000
Zalman LED cooler
4GB GEIL Ultra DDR2 RAM
Sparkle 8800GT (running at 671 / 941)

I've tried upping the CPU coltage to 1.3v, but still no joy.

Any ideas?

Massive Attack · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:11

from my understaning the X2 6000 cpus dont overclock to well as the clock speed is almost the limit for the manufacturing process (90nm), you are trying to boot into vista at 3.225ghz with hardly no voltage increases which is your main problem the stock voltage for this chip is 1.4 volts so you are actually undervolting the chip from the stock speeds.

FarleyUK · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:24

Ah, OK - so what should I try first? About 1.45v?

What's the limit for the voltage would you say? about 1.6v?

Massive Attack · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:36

FarleyUK said:
Ah, OK - so what should I try first? About 1.45v?

What's the limit for the voltage would you say? about 1.6v?

i would say a max of 1.55, what cooler are you using? tbh i think you are going to struggle overclocking it, got to ask yourself is all the extra heat worth it over 200mhz i would be very surprised if u got much more