Lately, I have been having a tad bit of trouble of the CPU locking up while overclocking it. It is a Tbird 1700 running at a true 2200. It ran fine for the longest at that speed, and during the winter, it was stable at 2300. It seem fine running games at 2200. But, if I leave the system on all night, I usually wake up to find it locked up. I am using some decent PC 3700 DDR that usually is good up to 215 FSB, but I keep the FSB at 200.
Here is the wierd thing I have been seeing. With the winbond hardware doctor utility, I notice the true voltage to the CPU is no where near what I have set it in the BIOS. I have it set to 1.9V in the BIOS of my Abit-nf7 (or is it an NF2? It is the one with the ultral 400 NForce chipset. Sorry if I dont remember the model number). Now in the winbond utilty, it usually reads from 1.79 to 1.82. So, I am assuming that my RAIDMAX 400w PSU isnt pushing enough. But, is this normal, and would I see the same results if I bumped up to a 500w PSU?
The rest of the system consists of 2 80 gig 8meg 7200RPM WD drives in a RAID 0, a single Seagate Barracuda IV 40gig, ATI 9500 OC'd, 2 CD drives, Diamond Monster Sound Vortex2 based sound card, and a self-contained water cooling systems that is the Koolance PC-601 case, which is comprised of a reservior with pump, 3 cooling fans on the top of the case, and a controller card. There is also a case fan mounted to the rear of the case. With all of the devices, I fear that my 400w PSU is not supplying enough. I am correct in this assumption, or is my CPU just dying out?
Here is the wierd thing I have been seeing. With the winbond hardware doctor utility, I notice the true voltage to the CPU is no where near what I have set it in the BIOS. I have it set to 1.9V in the BIOS of my Abit-nf7 (or is it an NF2? It is the one with the ultral 400 NForce chipset. Sorry if I dont remember the model number). Now in the winbond utilty, it usually reads from 1.79 to 1.82. So, I am assuming that my RAIDMAX 400w PSU isnt pushing enough. But, is this normal, and would I see the same results if I bumped up to a 500w PSU?
The rest of the system consists of 2 80 gig 8meg 7200RPM WD drives in a RAID 0, a single Seagate Barracuda IV 40gig, ATI 9500 OC'd, 2 CD drives, Diamond Monster Sound Vortex2 based sound card, and a self-contained water cooling systems that is the Koolance PC-601 case, which is comprised of a reservior with pump, 3 cooling fans on the top of the case, and a controller card. There is also a case fan mounted to the rear of the case. With all of the devices, I fear that my 400w PSU is not supplying enough. I am correct in this assumption, or is my CPU just dying out?
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