Too many accessories? (Q9450 Overclock)

[bhishma]

I'm running bhishma-stable right now (anything >= 10 second prime stable) with a Q9450 @ 3.6Ghz - Vcore ~ 1.368, which is apparently stable enough for me to run crysis, listen to music and run everything on linux.

I'll be testing my memory soon (should have suspected it a week ago) but assuming that's fine, I'm wondering if hooking up too many fans, harddrives and PCI cards could be inhibiting my overclock? I can't even run prime stable for longer than 40 minutes at 3.4Ghz - Vcore ~ 1.34 which is very sad for the Q9450 as i've come to understand.

Specs:
Trivials:
6 fans
4 SATA harddrives
3 stand alone LEDs (don't ask; i'm not a bling kind of guy but after I saw my case fan and cpu heatsink had unremovable LEDs I wasn't about to leave it looking pathetics)

Real stuff:
Xonar D2X (PCI-E)
Geforce 8800GTS (G80) (PCI-E)
Wireless card (PCI)
TV Tuner (PCI)
Asus P5Q-Deluxe
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2-8500
OCZ GameXstream 700W Power
Intel Q9450, VID = 1.25

Something I can take out to stabilize my overclock? Since the NB is vital to an overclock I would imagine the PCI-E had the only affect on overclockability due to the NB-PCIE relation. Thanks for the help.

 

[Gillbot]

the more components you havem the more load on your PSU. Are you sure your PSU is up to the demand of all that hardware PLUS a CPU overclock?

 

[GundamF91]

700w PSU should be able to handle what you have, but I don't know how much LED draws, probably not as much. Also I dont know if OCZ PSU can really deliver 700W, or how efficient it is. So far it seems OK. I don't even have 700W in my system, but I have about half of your accessories.

 

[OCGuy]

What are your other voltages? Northbridge? VTT/FSB TERM?

 

[taltamir]

10 seconds on prime your way to determine stability? it should be 10 hours...

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: Gillbot
the more components you havem the more load on your PSU. Are you sure your PSU is up to the demand of all that hardware PLUS a CPU overclock?

A 700W PSU is not going be anywhere close to maximum capacity with his setup...

 

[bhishma]

Haha, I realize 10 seconds prime stable is an oxymoron. The "strange" thing is that I havn't had a blue screen, a freeze or even a hiccup for the 48+ hours this has been on straight. I realize that that's not enough to determine stability but if i can't get my comp to be 24/7 prime stable then i'd rather run at 3.6 than 2.66, even if it's a little more "risky"

as for other voltages:

NB: 1.3
VTT: 1.26

I've had those up to NB:1.5 and VTT:1.32 with literally no change in prime performance.

I'm pretty sure the PSU isn't a problem as a whole. It'd be sad if it was because this is supposed to be "SLI ready".

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: Gillbot
the more components you havem the more load on your PSU. Are you sure your PSU is up to the demand of all that hardware PLUS a CPU overclock?

A 700W PSU is not going be anywhere close to maximum capacity with his setup...

I didn't see a PSU listed when I replied. If it was there, I overlooked it.