Having trouble over clocking

GooGooCluster

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My bro in law is having trouble with his 2500+ he has retail week 19 and its just not stable for over clocking anything past stock. Any suggestions? We tried upping the voltage to 1.75 and nothing. is working.

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a7n8x 2.0
Corsair 3200llpt
slk800
smartfan 2
 

GooGooCluster

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well we have tried both I have the same setup with a week 17 mine is running at 11.5x 200 at defualt vcore.

On his we have tried the same and also have tried 11.5x166 only half a muti more and still unstable.. going to bed but I will check tomorow.
 

GooGooCluster

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the processor wont pass prime at defualt settings. This thing has not been stable the whole time he has had it. I think we may need to return it to newegg. running memtest now to see if there is a memory error. Could the power supply have anything to do with this problem???
 

screw3d

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Originally posted by: GooGooCluster
the processor wont pass prime at defualt settings. This thing has not been stable the whole time he has had it. I think we may need to return it to newegg. running memtest now to see if there is a memory error. Could the power supply have anything to do with this problem???

Yes it could be... but first let's see what voltages the rails are providing (+5, +12, +3.3)?
 

infinite012

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looks good to me. are you running dual channel mode? if you are then try using only 1 stick of ram and see if you can get higher. also, make sure that it's not a motherboard issue by using your own cpu and overclocking it to 11.5x200 like you did on your own board. if it doesn't work, then it's probably a motherboard problem.
 

screw3d

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No it doesn't look good.. at least the +5v doesn't. 4.75v is just on the lower limit of the +/-5% tolerance!

You might wanna swap out the PSU with another unit and see if it improves anything?
 

GooGooCluster

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we switched out my processor and put in his system and it ran fine. when I put his in mine, it would not post at defualt settings with out upping the voltage.