Overclocking Nightmare.. anyone please.

Ell

Ell

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Hello oc'ers.

I recently put together a rig consisting of a

Asus P5ND2 SLi nForce4 Motherboard

P4 3.4 Dual Core Cpu

2 Gig of Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX Memory

2 XFX GeForce 6800 XT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 Graphic Cards in SLi (was on somewhat of a budget, but these cards clock in exactly as a 6800GT does without the extra vertex & pipelines)

520Watt Zalman Stealth PSU

a pair of WD Raptor Sata drives (10,000rpm)

Both cards, and CPU cooled by the Zalman Reserator1-Plus Fanless Water Cooling System with optional Reserator1 fan. the CPU idles at around 25oC and both cards around 49oC

im running Windows XP SP2 (100% legit copy) and all parts were supplied from Overclockers.co.uk.

now for the nightmare, CPU and GPUs REFUSE to overclock. full stop. i mean what the flying ****? I didnt get water cooling just because it looks good, someone please tell me where I went wrong as im deeply upset. ive been building and oc'ing machines for many years, yet this rig will crash and blue screen like **** mad if you raise the damn clocks in the slightest. i am one ****** off dude. please someone shed some light on this, I see people with 2.8 p4 dual cores on stock cooling reach 3.6-.3.9 why is the world giving me a bull**** hand?

i cant even use the rig anyway since all I play is battlefield and even when everything is at stock frequenices it will still crash due to the dual core chip or SLI mode etc.. feel like ive wasted a lot of time and money and now im using my standard Micro ATX Asus baord with a 3Ghz Dual core with golden sample 6800Ultra and a gig of Geil DDR2 which is 100% more stable than the thing i just built!!! WTF?!?!?!

Much appreciated anyone who can take the time to throw ideas at me, thanks again! Ell.

(oc'ing wise I use coolbits, RivaTuner, and the asus A.I overclock feauture, although ive tried it manually ofcourse, still no joy.)

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Have you tried just using the one gfx card to eliminate the PSU issue?
You should try running memtest 1.65+, google it, download the iso, burn a bootable CD and run it for an hour or so.
On a side note, if you are within 7 days of purchase, I would strongly suggest swapping those gfx cards for a single card solution such as a 7900GT, the 6800xt's have a 128 bit mem interface that'll cripple their performance once you do get your system running properly. The 7900gt will outperform the two of those cards and also clocks like hell.
 
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