Some Advice Required in Ocing E6300

[manishjeenwal]

Below is my rig

Intel C2D E6300
Asus P5LD2-VM SE (945 Chipset)
2 x 1 GB Kingston DDR2 667 Mhz
MSI ATI Radeon 2600XT 256MB GDDR3
WD 500GB SATA2
Onboard 7.1 Ch
Cooler Master 460W Extreme Power Plus
Iball Cabinet ATX
Win XP with SP3
17" Flat Samsng Syncmaster

I have overclocked my system before as well when i bought it but not for a long period....Now that it is getting a bit old for newer games i decided to overclock it. I was able to overclock it upto 289 FSB with a PCI-E lock of 120. My 500 GB HDD crashed with no detection at all....and this happened twice after getting it replaced also....so i stopped overclocking.....Now I read in some forum that my mobo has some issue related to sata detection after a certain PCI-e frequency. Also i was also able to overclock my sytem to 330 FSB with PCI-E lock of 116(read on some forum)... but i did this after disconnecting the hdd just to check if it boots.... But i am hesitant to try overclocking again as i have lost my data twice.... Now i wish to know that if use a SATA RAID card and then overclock will it still affect my HDD ? Please reply guys...

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: manishjeenwal
My 500 GB HDD crashed with no detection at all....and this happened twice after getting it replaced also....

When you increase the FSB you are also speeding up your memory. If you speed up the memory way past the point where it is stable, it will likely write corrupt data to your hard drive and make the data on it unreadable, though the drive itself won't be damaged.

Did you check whether the drive was good before you RMA'd it (twice!)?

It sounds like you are just putting numbers into your BIOS and hoping that they work, and getting massive overclocking failures. Overclocking is a slow process of trial and error, best accomplished in small steps. When an overclock fails massively there's no telling what may happen.

 

[brencat]

OP, lock the PCIe frequency at 100mhz. The benefits of OCing that are minimal at best and likely to cause instability more often than not. In addition, make sure your RAM is running 1:1 with the FSB. As Bill indicated, it's likely that you were running at some other ratio and the OC was failing due to the RAM running faster than the FSB. Bear in mind too, that because your RAM is only 333mhz rated, as you approach lets say a 350 FSB, you'll have to bump the vDIMM up a tad.

 

[manishjeenwal]

ok....regarding the hdd i checked it in my friends system and yes it was not getting detected at all....and regarding overclocking i am not putting any numbers in to bios and i am speeding it up gradually....if you search the anantech forums with "p5ld2 overclock" you will know what i am talking about sata hdd no detection....those who have used this board will be able to address this issue better...if the ram was unstable it should give a BSOD which it gives when last time my hdd crashed but my hdd didnt detect at all after i restarted the system....also i have adequate cooling for my system.....the issue is mobo specific...

 

[VirtualLarry]

For overclocking...

GET A BETTER MOTHERBOARD.