FSBwall with DS3 (I searched I swear!)

[thedguy]

Hello,

I was hoping to make my first post a nice success post but I'm a bit disappointed with my setup, here's why...

I'm running a 6300 with a GA-965p-DS3 and patriot 667 2x1g ram . I bought that ram because of the good reviews I've seen on (random) review sites, and due to some claims on newegg. Chip is watercooled, rest is all air.

I've tried F1,F3,f4, atleast 1 beta F5, F5, and F6 now...

2 ds3 boards, 2 sets of (the same) ram, a regular PCI video card, all devices unplugged and disabled (except ide or sata ports), running a 6x instead of 7x, 60mm fan on the nb w/ a 120mm intake fan (seemed to help more than the 60mm fan). I haven't really messed with memory timings, though I did try 1 time to loosed then to 5-5-5-16.

No amount of voltage changes seem to help. While I haven't tried every viable combo, I've tried working my way up on each one (mch to +2, dimm +2, cpu @1.36v pcie +1)

What I don't get is the board literally gives up the overclock above 380. Upto 380 I can go fine with no voltage changes or anything. If I goto 381,385,390,400,410,425,435 nothing happens, board disables the fsb overclock and goes back to normal.

The only thing I kind of question is my PSU, it's only a 430w, but with only 1 sata hd connected, and a PCI ATI radeon 7000, I can't be over doing. Hell my bro ran this with an 805 at 3.5ghz with 3hd's,1dvd, an ati x800pro pci-e and a thermal take bigwater SE watercooler (which I inherited).

Am I SOL? Is it my chip? Is there something I'm just missing? It's been a good few years since I've overclocked, back when we still had to deal with jumpers, and a Celeron 300a w/Alpha HSF was a kick ass OC'er.

On the plus side, I still hit 2.66 but I was hoping for 3, I'm only disappointed because it's not acting like anyone elses setups that I can find.

Thanks
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