So I splurged and picked up a PII X4 965 C3 last night. My entire goal is to break 4 Ghz. I am using my original PII X3 720 motherboard and I took out 4 gigs of DDR2 1066 (since the PII's can't run 2GBx4 at full speed and have to be downclocked to DDR2 800) and I just can't seem to get this machine stable.
I tried setting the voltage to automatic, that failed after 10 minutes of OCCT. Same when I pumped the volts to 1.5V.
I should mention my motherboard is a little older. a Gigabyte GA-Ma790GP-UD4H and I am running the F7a (beta) firmware. I did notice that my power supply was getting hot, so I think it might be the weak link in this equation. It's only a 500 Watt Thermaltake TruePower, and truth be told it's up around 3 years old or so. Also I used a converter cable to make the 4 pin (P4) into an 8 Pin for this motherboard.
I'm not running anything extravagant in this build. I was running my dual 4770's but I think that this PSU is getting too weak to support the power draw. At the moment I am only running 1 4770, albeit slightly overclocked. Also I only have one hard drive (A Samsung Spinright 250 GB) and a DVD-RW drive. The memory requires 2.1V and the CPU itself seems to do well with 1.4V stock. I don't think I have enough amps to run a decent overclock (especially since I've been running this machine overclocked and with the dual cards since last August and the PSU was about 1.5 years old at that time as well.
I haven't had any issues keeping the CPU cool while it was benchmarking at 4 Ghz (as I said, I can make it there fine, but after 10 minutes of OCCT, sometimes 3-5 minutes) I get BSOD and that's all she wrote. But when it's working I think I hit about 52-53C max.
So, any advice or insight? I'm pretty broke after getting this CPU so I might have to tough it out and keep it stock for now, but I might be able to at least swing a better PSU (I'm eying a Corsair Semi-modular 650W or an Antec Neopower 650) and hopefully the machine will be stable after that. At least stable and overclocked and powering my twin cards.
I tried setting the voltage to automatic, that failed after 10 minutes of OCCT. Same when I pumped the volts to 1.5V.
I should mention my motherboard is a little older. a Gigabyte GA-Ma790GP-UD4H and I am running the F7a (beta) firmware. I did notice that my power supply was getting hot, so I think it might be the weak link in this equation. It's only a 500 Watt Thermaltake TruePower, and truth be told it's up around 3 years old or so. Also I used a converter cable to make the 4 pin (P4) into an 8 Pin for this motherboard.
I'm not running anything extravagant in this build. I was running my dual 4770's but I think that this PSU is getting too weak to support the power draw. At the moment I am only running 1 4770, albeit slightly overclocked. Also I only have one hard drive (A Samsung Spinright 250 GB) and a DVD-RW drive. The memory requires 2.1V and the CPU itself seems to do well with 1.4V stock. I don't think I have enough amps to run a decent overclock (especially since I've been running this machine overclocked and with the dual cards since last August and the PSU was about 1.5 years old at that time as well.
I haven't had any issues keeping the CPU cool while it was benchmarking at 4 Ghz (as I said, I can make it there fine, but after 10 minutes of OCCT, sometimes 3-5 minutes) I get BSOD and that's all she wrote. But when it's working I think I hit about 52-53C max.
So, any advice or insight? I'm pretty broke after getting this CPU so I might have to tough it out and keep it stock for now, but I might be able to at least swing a better PSU (I'm eying a Corsair Semi-modular 650W or an Antec Neopower 650) and hopefully the machine will be stable after that. At least stable and overclocked and powering my twin cards.
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