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BSODs when overclocking QX9650
Hello everyone,
I have been trying to overclock my lovely new QX9650 and i keep getting BSODs when i overclock 3.5 or above.
I have set the voltages which have been set as high as 1.27365 (i think it was, it was the lowest setting for 1.27. I have set the PLL and VTT. i have set the ram timings loose as well as setting the voltage for the ram. I have also turned off things like speedstep and C1E. Nothing helps.
I have used multipliers 9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 10.5 and 11.0.
I have had different FSBs, some of which would not allow the BIOS to POST.
For ref. The BSODs i have had are, 0x01E and 0x07E and i have also had the ones where something was terminated or did not load into the CPU.
The BSODs will stop as soon as i reset the clocks back to stock and all will be ok again. I have also ran Intel Burn Test with 10 tests and all passed with flying colours (Funny thing though, the time it took for one test to complete was getting on for 500 sec's and to me, thats not good as my old Q9300 which was oc'd to 3.0ghz took exactly the same amount of time).
Can anyone please point me in the right direction or tell me where i am going wrong. I don't really want to raise the voltages anymore as the temps were already being read as 39 degrees c when set to the voltage stated above but if i do then please say how far i should go, i don't want to fry my little QX. i only had it a couple of weeks.
Thanks in advance