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Motherboard, CPU, or RAM at fault?

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Possum

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Is there any way to test a motherboard, CPU, and RAM separately to figure out which is preventing me from overclocking higher? My first Asus P3V4X with my current RAM and CPU allowed me to run at 975 MHz stable (150 MHz FSB), and even posted at 1007 MHz (155 MHz, FSB with a high Vcore). When my brother purchased a P3V4X a few months later, it had a Via 596 southbridge with CE on the chip instead of CD (which is what I had), so I switched the motherboards. Now, I can't seem to get 975 to run stable, and can't even post at 1007.

How can I separately test the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to find out which of these is preventing me from even posting at 1007?
 
If you could make it with the same RAM and processor before it's pretty clear it's the motherboard at fault.
 
Overclocking that much w/the FSB can cause your pci devices to not work so great so it could be your video card preventing you if you don't have a good video card.
 
The same components I have now worked ok when I was able to post at 1007 MHz with the other motherboard.

If it is indeed the motherboard that is holding the rest of the system back, is there any test I could perform to verify that the motherboard fails at 150 and 150 MHz FSB?
 
possum, put in very high quality components, and a processor that you KNOW can hit 150 fsb, for example the pentium 3 500, Most hit 750, so that is a good way to figure that out.

it sounds like your processor might have just aged over time, and lost a little juice in it. it happens.
 
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