Need Striker II Extreme OC'ing help

[McCartney]

Setup:

Qx9650
Striker 2 Extreme
Patriot 2x2GB Viper at 1600 MHZ 7-7-7-20


Having trouble Overclocking my 9650. I can't even get 1333 fsb x 10 multi stable. It BSODs at the windows booting screen.

Shooting for 1600x10 for personal goals. Right now it's running cool on the fan's quiet mode on the QX coolers (About 45-50 idle to load). I'm wondering how I can actually get a good OC without seeing these BSODs? I know it takes a lot of tweaking but I've tried alot of stuff and it seems manually changing voltages for things like NB voltage makes it fail to post and I have to restart the bios configuration via cmos reset button.

Running BIOS 0601. It's not my chip either because this is my second, and the first was giving the same problems the only reason I returned it is because of the heatspreader having these marks on them that I wasn't aware of being normal for some "tested" chips (AKA All QXs since they're binned higher). My chip is a T batch as well so it should clock high.

Experienced people or just people who are going through my situation's opinion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[McCartney]

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[Sylvanas]

Have you fully read though the OC guide? It could be a number of things and you need to eliminate each variable in order to determine what it is. Is your Ram stable at stock? Can it pass 1hr Memtest? What Vcore/ mem / NB voltages are you using, what PSU, what temps are you getting stock and load.

 

[DSF]

The first thing I would do is take your RAM out of the equation. Give it as much voltage as it needs and set the timings nice and loose. Run it 1:1 with the FSB. Then see if that changes anything.

By the way, when you're talking about your OC, people generally report the actual FSB, which would be 333, not Intel's rating of 1333.

 

[McCartney]

How high of a voltage do you think the ram needs? I mean I tried everything sylvanas and its' really annoying man it frustrates me that sometimes it doesn't post.

My LCD poster stopped working too which is really oDD!

 

[McCartney]

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[DarkRogue]

The OC guide that's stickied here as well as linked to by Sylvanas should have all the information you need really. I was a complete newbie to overclocking and I managed to overclock my E8400 just fine using that guide. For the most part, set your RAM to very relaxed settings, and look at the specs of your RAM to see what voltage they need and supply that, then increase Vcore as that's usually the culprit behind unstable overclocks.