Puzzling CPU & Overclock

Ununquadium114

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I've come to the conclusion that I have a good overclocking chip, but this latest development has confused me:

My system is pretty stable @ 3.62. Yesterday I flashed to the newest beto bios, 1007.013. I then pushed up my fsb one more. Sure enough it wasn't stable. Well after a freeze, I go & put the VCore on auto. I'm thinking its gonna be something high, & it boots @ 1.552, less than 1.675 or 1.7 (I changed it periodically) I had it at. Thinking its going to freeze any minute I do a few things - no freeze. I go to run Prime95 & it doesn't even run 1 test. Still suprised after no freeeze, I played Rise of Nations, a game that has restarted my system on me many times after I tried to oc to much. I played the game with AIM & Soulseek running for about an hour with no problems! Does Prime95 need a high voltage or something? I would post pics but I cant. Im confused

 

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Ununquadium114

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btw, im still at 3.63, 279 FSB, idle 30C load unknown

 

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sorry keep forgetting, timings are sedated, 1 512 Corsair XMS PC2700 2.5-4-4-8 @ 372.2 Mhz

 

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Prime 95 will take a stable system and take it to its knees. If your system is stable, then it is stable. Don't let one program get you bent out of shape, use it as a guide.

The auto setting uses the CPU default, thats why it booted at 1.552V. You were probably unstable at the higher voltages b/c of too much heat. Although 1.552V @ 3.62 is a little fishy. what kind of cooling are you running. Thats an amazing O/C if I am reading this right.

 

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slk800 with vantec tornado i would post pics, but i cant. I agree with you about Prime95, I am beginning to use it less & less

 

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let me get this str8, at 1.55v is prime stable or not? the pc seems to game and stuff but doesnt prime at 1.55v?

 

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let me get this str8, at 1.55v is prime stable or not? the pc seems to game and stuff but doesnt prime at 1.55v?

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Its not prime 95 stable, but stable in games or alteast it was for an hour.

 

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yeah & in the past when ive put it to high, rise of nations has restarted almost immediatly

 

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so is this bios better or worse then you old bios? i find it hard to belive it games but doesnt prime for very long. what game were you playing? if my pc cant prime for 8+hrs i turn the clock down.

 

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Ununquadium114 said:

yeah & in the past when ive put it to high, rise of nations has restarted almost immediatly

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Then its probably heat or your PSU is having troubles keeping up. I would find another program to run @ 1.55V. Such as 3dmark or a seti.

 

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http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191140

I just ran Tribes 2 for about 15 minutes, no problems

 

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15 minutes is not really much of a stress test. hours is a stress test.

 

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with aim running & soulseek, i ran 3dmark03. it ran all the tests & promptly froze returning to the desktop after running them all. still not quite sure. do you really think it could be the psu? also, should i try disabling serial ports

 

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Serial ports won't do anything. A real stress test would be to loop 3dmark for about 2 hours. If it froze, you probably are not 100% stable and should increase to 1.6V. the only way to know if its your PSU is to monitor the voltages through ASUS probe.

 

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i could care less about prime95 if you can play games and surf the net all day without a reboot its stable to me,screw prime

 

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Ec]-[oMaN said:

i could care less about prime95 if you can play games and surf the net all day without a reboot its stable to me,screw prime

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but he didnt say it will play all day. im sure if he doesnt pass prime it will freeze on him sooner or later

 

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there ya go echoman! i agree. i bumped the vcore up to 1.6 & upped the fsb to 280. i folded at 60% for about an hour & it was stable. gonna do some more gaming...

 

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also, when can i post attatchments?

 

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are there some pci settings or agp settings that help squeeze when you oc?

 

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Ec]-[oMaN said:

i could care less about prime95 if you can play games and surf the net all day without a reboot its stable to me,screw prime

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I hope you don't run seti or fold....

if you do, just how many errors do do think your sending in?

heck, I can surf the web at 200fsb with my cpu...
but it's not stable at much else.

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