Overclocking and video card

[Amitojc]

Im not sure what particular forum this should be but I think the topic had to do with CPU and overclocking. Well, I have a q6600 and p35 gigabyte motherboard. Its stock at 2.4 but I was overclocking it to 3.0 no problems at all. Temps good and worked fine. At the time I had a 9800 gx2. I recently upgraded to a pny 460 overclocked. As soon as I did that my computer would boot and then shut down immediately before loading windows. It should then turn out with the default clock speed of 2.4. How could the graphics card be interfering with the overclocking to 3.0? Anything I can do to have it run at 3.0. Thanks!

 

[Amitojc]

wow 101 views and no replies =(

 

[maniac5999]

Ok, we need more info.
#1) is something broken? if you re-install the 9800 does everything work again?

#2) Is the GTX 460 DOA? can you put in a differenc computer and see if it runs?

#3) What PSU are you using? IIRC the 460 uses more power than the 9800, you may be overloading your PSU.

 

[Arkaign]

Overloaded/borderline PSU is the likely culprit. What model and how old is it?

65nm quads are pretty thirsty, much more so with a decent OC, combine that with a great but also pretty hungry video card, that spells trouble, m-o-o-n.