overclocking wall of 230 fsb on my 4400

i currently own the enrmax liberty 500, which i have read was a very reliable psu.
but i cant seem to get past the 230 fsb in my 4400x2 with my fatal1ty mobo.
at first i was trying to Oc with my cheap ol case PSU, so i bought this one.
no, no change. still 230Mhz fsb wall
do you think its the Psu, or maybe the power at home?
what do you think?

should i buy a ups, if so, what do you recommend? because i dont think i have stable currents.

thanks guys.

Yea I must concur...I highly doubt its your PSU. Try using a memory divider (DDR333 or DDR266, which is 5:6 or 2:3, respectively)to achieve a higher speed. Im betting its your ram holding you back.

Could be any number of things...

Could be you installed the nforce ide driver...or the nforce firewall...(both of these have issues accross the whole nforce 4 series). On some boards, you have to update the driver before you update the bios, or vice versa. This problem would be relevant regardless of whether or not you oc'd however. I recommend not installing either at all. Regardless of updates.

Could be that if you're using a sata drive, that the sata port you're plugged in to isn't stable when you oc. (which has been true across several mobo manufactures...you'd have to check with other people that have the same mobo as you to find out if this is true for your mobo; sometimes its just certain ports, sometimes its all, sometimes its the pata ports...).

Could be that your pci bus isn't locked...

Could be that your HTT multiplier isn't low enough. At or below 250fsb, should be set to 4x, above that 3x. It should only be on 5x if at 200 or lower fsb. However on some mobo's, setting it to 3x or lower, causes instability. HTT could be represented by multipliers (as above), or 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000 OR 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000. Technically the HTT bus runs both ways at 1000 (if at max, 5*200, 4*250, 3*330, 2*500fsb [2*500 currently being an impossiblity obviously], which could be shown all 3 ways, by the mulitplier 5x, 1000, or 2000 [again, when maxed; also 2000 represents the bidirectional 1000mhz buses added together]) --edit This isn't necessarily as true for the a8n32-sli, this board supposedly is good up to 1200 (4*300)...but i personally haven't verified this...since i don't have one.

Could be that your memory timings are set too tight, or not tight enough.

Could be that you've hit the upper limit of your memory overclockability. If this is the case, change to a divider, as other people have suggested, to get a higher mhz oc.

Could be that you need to add voltage to your cpu.

Could be that you need to add voltage to your memory.

Could be that the power you're getting to your psu isn't 'clean', but that's fairly unlikely.

Could be that the amd 64 driver is installed, which sometimes can cause issues when coupled with amd cool and quiet setting being on or off in the bios and overclocking. When oc'ing, its usually best to uninstall the amd 64 driver (if you've installed it) and disable c'n'q. However, many people still oc with both cool and quiet ON, and the driver installed.

Or it could be combinations of the above...



Also, there is going to be some fluctuation on the different voltage lines that you can read, i wouldn't worry too much about that. If you're really worried about it, you can buy a good 750+ ups, which would clear up any issues with housing voltage issues (but it won't fix regular fluctuations within the psu and mobo).

Yes sir.