mkay, now, i got my new motherboard (epox 8rda+) a week ago or so, and i decided to see how good of an overclocker it is. So, in went my XP1700+ (i guess its just a palimino or whatever) and i tried o/cing it to 138/138 (1800+) i ran 3dmark and it rebooted at like the 13th test. Strange i thought, people held the board's capabilities in such high regard. O well, i turn the FSB down a notch to 137/137 (1.52ghz or so) and i run 3dmark again, and it was fine. After that i tried more and more to overclock it past 1800+, trying to hit 1900+ or even 2000+ but it just wouldnt go. Actually at one point when i had the FSB at 146/146 and it didnt enter windows, and i tried to turn the FSB down, the bios wouldnt show properly. Well i finally fixed it and put it back down to 137/137 cpu FSB. So, my question is, does anyone know what might be causing the rebooting? i was wondering if it was my memory. its 256mb of Crucial pc2100. I thought it might be that the memory FSB goes up when the cpu FSB goes up and it couldnt handle it Should i disable the option that pushes the memory fsb higher as the cpu fsb goes higher and just leave it at 133/133 and push the cpu? Should i download MemTest and check the memory? Or is it my PSU? i just have some 300W atx one. If it helps, my comp stats are :
Athlon XP 1700+
Epox 8rda+
256mb crucial pc2100
asus v8200 geforce 3 pure
300W atx PSU
Athlon XP 1700+
Epox 8rda+
256mb crucial pc2100
asus v8200 geforce 3 pure
300W atx PSU
I'd say it's the RAM, try setting the higher RAM timings which will allow as much lee-way for the higher clocks. Consider looking to PC2700.
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