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Symptons of a weak PSU?

pillage2001

pillage2001

Lifer
Hie there. I just got myself a Tbird 1.4Ghz and tried to o/c it to 1.533 but failed even though I pushed the Vcore to 1.85v. I'm suspecting that my PSU is not powerful to handle the overclocking. I've got like 2hdd and 2CDroms on my PC together with 3 80mm fans.

I'm just wondering if the PSU is weak. What are the symptons??

It's a 300 watt Comtec??
 
Are you going to tell us which PSU you have, or should we fantasize? 🙂

Also, the fans are 80mm, not 800 mm (I would be afraid of a fan that's taller than a dog). Take out all your other hardware, keep the Mobo+Video+RAM+CPU+Cooler, see if it can take it without the extra devices.

Yes, it could mean that.

* Edit: take out all the case fans too, but don't close the case or something will start smelling funny..
 
Symptoms - PC crashing when under load - IE: like running CPU intensive programs whilst spinning up a CD for example.
 
I tried copying stuffs from my DVD to hdd and HDD to another HDD which means all my devices running and everything was okie. Does that mean my PSU is okay?

I'm trying overclock a 1.4Ghz. 🙁
 
300 watt of a no-name PSU? For a CPU that need a very stable voltage, and lots of it? Hmm.

I would recommend buying an Antec 400 watt PSU from CompUSA (local store). See if it works the way you want, and return it anyway (get your money back). Then if the PSU was the problem, buy a nice one from NewEgg.com (damn, I am promoting NewEgg as if they're paying me 🙂)

Enermax is nice.
 
If you took out those components and it still won't overclock maybe your memory doesn't like the overclock. Check your memory settings, and what is your fsb running at during the overclock?
 


<< If you took out those components and it still won't overclock maybe your memory doesn't like the overclock. Check your memory settings, and what is your fsb running at during the overclock? >>



I will overclock by using the multiplier first before I hit the FSB. My RAM are from Crucial. They hit 150Mhz Cas 2 easily. I'm at 1530 with 139Mhz FSB now on 1.75. I tried 1533 with 11.5x133@1.8 and it won't work. 🙁

I might just get the enermax. 🙁
 
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