Originally posted by: timzak
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Originally posted by: ajsasr
Well...I just tried to run 3DMark06. And I don't know if it's my video card or what, but the test crashes to a windows error in the middle of the Return to Proxycom video test. This gets worse and worse. I'm going to try 3DMark03 and see what happens.
Well as I was installing 3dmark03, the PC had a random reboot. So I went ahead and down-clocked my FSB back to 200, and changed the IDE Strength to Highest. I was able to run 3dmark03 with a score of 6450, and 3dmark06 with a score of 856. I would say I have a GPU bottleneck. I'm going to put my new PSU in tonight. Change the FSB back to 242, and try to run both tests again. If it crashes on my, then I'm going to reside myself to the fact that overclocking this rig is just not going to happen.....
I just searched back to your first post in this thread and see you're running a 9700 Pro. Definitely your bottleneck. It won't matter if you underclock your cpu to 2.0Ghz, your graphics will probably stay the same speed. So if you're a gamer and don't plan to upgrade your video card, then overclocking won't give you any benefit (which could be a blessing in disguise given the stability issues you've been having).
Let's see what the new PSU does for you...it's possible it will stabilize your overclock.
Do you plan on upgrading the video card? Or do you not game that much?
It doesn't appear that the PSU made much difference. I'm still not stable at 3.4GHz. I tried my pcie at 100 and 117, and 3dmark03 both times didn't work. With pcie at 117, the unit rebooted. At 100 3dmark just quit. I am stable at 3.2GHz though. I was able to finish an entire test. Could agp voltage be the issue? If anyone thinks so then I'll do the voltage mode. Otherwise I'll let it at this. I don't do a lot of gaming, but was looking to get the biggest bang for my buck.
Another reason I think it's agp voltage is because I can run for hours on end Orthos error free......it's gotta be the GPU.