dear overclockers,
It's bit of a story but i'll spare you guys and tell the short version!
I've got my setup for quite a while now, over two years if i recall correctly. The instant I got it I clocked the CPU and memory. Got it running stable at 3.8ghz without any troubles what so ever. Although a few weeks back my pc would instantly reboot time to time. I noticed this only happened when either my cpu and/or memory was used heavily. My first thoughts immediately went to the CPU and memory. I stressed the cpu for 12hours straight with orthos, no faults it appeared stable. Also after doing a memtest in boot there were no faults after 8hours of testing.
Few weeks pass no more sudden reboots, I was confident it could have been the power in my appartment so I used another socket in the wall. By now I got the system running stable at 4.0ghz at a decent temperature. Again time passes and no troubles.
All of the sudden a week back ive been getting this instant reboots again. I checked again with orthos and memtest but the CPU + Memory showed no faults. I'm pretty sure I can't screw up alot in the orthos test so I assume the orthos test was 100% valid. So i narrowed it down to either my PSU which might got weakened over time or my memory. Yesterday night I did another mem test and it showed no faults.
I ask you all to maybe check if i did the test right in memtest. I did not check all my ram sticks seperately and I used the 'default' test. Just booted up and allowed memtest to check automatically for 8 hours straight. A screen of yesterday night's memtest scan:
Therefor i ask you all if i should still suspect a faulty cpu/memory or could it be the PSU which got weaker over time?
It's bit of a story but i'll spare you guys and tell the short version!
I've got my setup for quite a while now, over two years if i recall correctly. The instant I got it I clocked the CPU and memory. Got it running stable at 3.8ghz without any troubles what so ever. Although a few weeks back my pc would instantly reboot time to time. I noticed this only happened when either my cpu and/or memory was used heavily. My first thoughts immediately went to the CPU and memory. I stressed the cpu for 12hours straight with orthos, no faults it appeared stable. Also after doing a memtest in boot there were no faults after 8hours of testing.
Few weeks pass no more sudden reboots, I was confident it could have been the power in my appartment so I used another socket in the wall. By now I got the system running stable at 4.0ghz at a decent temperature. Again time passes and no troubles.
All of the sudden a week back ive been getting this instant reboots again. I checked again with orthos and memtest but the CPU + Memory showed no faults. I'm pretty sure I can't screw up alot in the orthos test so I assume the orthos test was 100% valid. So i narrowed it down to either my PSU which might got weakened over time or my memory. Yesterday night I did another mem test and it showed no faults.
I ask you all to maybe check if i did the test right in memtest. I did not check all my ram sticks seperately and I used the 'default' test. Just booted up and allowed memtest to check automatically for 8 hours straight. A screen of yesterday night's memtest scan:
Therefor i ask you all if i should still suspect a faulty cpu/memory or could it be the PSU which got weaker over time?
Code:
My setup is the following:
E8400 @ 3.8ghz / 4.0ghz stable
P5Q Se/r
8gb Kingston hyperX 1066mhz (DDR2)
Geforce 9800gtx+
LC-Power LC5550 V2.2 (550watts)
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at 3.8ghz (35c idle - 62c stressed - vcore 1.3375)
at 4.0ghz (38c idle - 65c stressed - vcore 1.3750)
