Plugging PSU into wall or multisocket

Cool. The reason I asked is that my i7 bundle is still unstable, even after upping voltage to 1.3 (and now 1.35) from OCUK's 1.275, which they tested and claim was stable at their end. It's really bugging me now... I have no idea why this thing is not stable. But some have suggested that plugging direct into wall can help. I'm reluctant to do this as I have limited sockets in my room and would need to move everything around to accommodate it.
 
Hehe, good point, bewteen the two of us we'll have him lugging his rig all round the house.

you kid but i've just moved 4 PCs, 2 switches, my wireless router and a desktop fan from one side of the room to the other, with 5 sets of 10m CAT5E cables all tangeld up.

nightmare! but if it works...
 
Hi Plec

I've been round the houses with CS for weeks on this. Had one entire replacement bundle and one new replacement Megahalems for the original Noctua. Helped but not much.

Lian Li PC-V1110B
OCUK Gigabyte i7 Bundle @ 4011.09MHz @ VCore 1.3 (up from 1.275 OCUK setting)
Megahalems HSF (To replace Noctua, which was about 10C hotter)
Corsair 850W Modular PSU plugged into wall
5 x SATA HDDs
Fairly large GeForce 8800GT
XFI Extreme Gamer PCI Soundcard

Thanks,
 
Plec,

Thanks mate - we're going to be doing exactly that if another test fails tonight. (getting crashes during 3D renders). We'll be doing just that - lowering to stock, then back up to something like 3.8, then up and up if possible. I have no idea how to O/C so I'll be calling them for a walkthrough.

I've still got hope for this rig. It's going to be something really simple, I know it...

Thanks again mate
 
nope ;/ sadly. i don't think it's a power problem.

as far as my mind is able to go my instability problem is either:

1) PSU problem (highly unlikely)
2) Overclock Unstable (Reasonably likely, although OCUK swear they tested it..)
3) Temps problem - Now improved so not likely.

I think the next thing to test is lowering the O/C a bit.
 
westom

thanks for your help but to be perfectly honest the chances of these stability issues being down to a brand new Corsair 850W Modular PSU are extremely low. Plugging directly into wall hasn't made any difference to stability as far as I can tell. Surely if a PSU successfully boots a PC, runs games and windows generally etc then it's fine? I doubt any crashes during heavy CPU usage (I do 3D rendering, probably the most intensive task a CPU can take) will be down to that. More likely to be temps or an unstable OC.

I've also tried a couple of power cords, so that's not the issue.

Cheers,
 
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