Hey,
I'm quite new to building systems and overclocking, as this is my 1st ever build. I actually thought overclocking would be harder than it is, however, i am running into some stability issues.
All the bits went together easily enough and it booted 1st time
i ran it for a few days at stock clock's to make sure everything got bedded in, and ran a few benchmarks in "Sandra". Below are some spec's
- Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
- AMD Phenom II 965 3.4 GHz (140 TDP Ver.)
- 4GB OCZ Obsidian DDR3 1600 MHZ RAM
- 600W OCZ ModXStream PSU
- Antec 300 Case.
I then started doing some overclocking, nothing extreme, with 3.6 GHz on the processor, 2400 GHz on the Northbridge and HT link frequency's, RAM clocked at 1599 MHz. This is on Stock cooling BTW.
Speedfan shows the MAX core temp to be 56 Degrees when benchmarking with Sandra.
However, on the Burn-In test, it BSOD'd on the 3rd cycle. I have no idea why.. it was at 55 degrees at time of BSOD...
The voltages are on AUTO BTW. As are the RAM Timings.. i didnt want to mess with them as i wouldnt know what to do, just stuck to what i do know
So basically.. does anyone have an idea why it died? Also, anyone got some rough figures i could play with, or someone else got thier 965 OC'd?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance
I'm quite new to building systems and overclocking, as this is my 1st ever build. I actually thought overclocking would be harder than it is, however, i am running into some stability issues.
All the bits went together easily enough and it booted 1st time
i ran it for a few days at stock clock's to make sure everything got bedded in, and ran a few benchmarks in "Sandra". Below are some spec's- Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
- AMD Phenom II 965 3.4 GHz (140 TDP Ver.)
- 4GB OCZ Obsidian DDR3 1600 MHZ RAM
- 600W OCZ ModXStream PSU
- Antec 300 Case.
I then started doing some overclocking, nothing extreme, with 3.6 GHz on the processor, 2400 GHz on the Northbridge and HT link frequency's, RAM clocked at 1599 MHz. This is on Stock cooling BTW.
Speedfan shows the MAX core temp to be 56 Degrees when benchmarking with Sandra.
However, on the Burn-In test, it BSOD'd on the 3rd cycle. I have no idea why.. it was at 55 degrees at time of BSOD...
The voltages are on AUTO BTW. As are the RAM Timings.. i didnt want to mess with them as i wouldnt know what to do, just stuck to what i do know
So basically.. does anyone have an idea why it died? Also, anyone got some rough figures i could play with, or someone else got thier 965 OC'd?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance
