Hi all,
it seems the time has come for me to ask a Question... I have never intended to OC or tweak or whatever of the kind before I made my current rig. But you know - if you can why not. It is contagious... And so I ended up here, read a ton of helpful threads, etc, OC'ed everything overclockable inside my chassis. Cool...
Now.
The highest CPU clock I achieved was 4200 MHz and couldn't go any higher no matter what. But l noticed that the failing core in Prime 95 is C2 (the third one). Almost every time it was the third core. So two days ago I tried to try to OC C0 and C1 to 4500 MHz and left C2 and C3 at 4000 MHz(stable). Using MsrPhenomTweaker - very useful custom cool'n'quiet app. Ran the prime, everything was fine for an hour+. I had no time to do a longer test, but if it was to fail, it wouldn't take that long - usually it takes around 30min. Anyway...
And because of the time insufficiency I OC by multi, I must confess.
So what I want to know is there a way to stabilize that third core excluding overvolting - it is already at its max.
And... well... a second question all of a sudden - could it be a ram related issue. I was a way worse noob than I am now and bought cheap ram - after all, it is all size that matters, right? The said cheap ram is a 4gb A-data 1333 c9 and a 4gb Geil 1600 c11 I know, I know - don't mix 'em you fool etc. But they are working fine over a year or more as long as I don't push too hard. Now they are set at 1333 8-8-8-22-30.
So, please, suggestions?
it seems the time has come for me to ask a Question... I have never intended to OC or tweak or whatever of the kind before I made my current rig. But you know - if you can why not. It is contagious... And so I ended up here, read a ton of helpful threads, etc, OC'ed everything overclockable inside my chassis. Cool...
Now.
The highest CPU clock I achieved was 4200 MHz and couldn't go any higher no matter what. But l noticed that the failing core in Prime 95 is C2 (the third one). Almost every time it was the third core. So two days ago I tried to try to OC C0 and C1 to 4500 MHz and left C2 and C3 at 4000 MHz(stable). Using MsrPhenomTweaker - very useful custom cool'n'quiet app. Ran the prime, everything was fine for an hour+. I had no time to do a longer test, but if it was to fail, it wouldn't take that long - usually it takes around 30min. Anyway...
And because of the time insufficiency I OC by multi, I must confess.
So what I want to know is there a way to stabilize that third core excluding overvolting - it is already at its max.
And... well... a second question all of a sudden - could it be a ram related issue. I was a way worse noob than I am now and bought cheap ram - after all, it is all size that matters, right? The said cheap ram is a 4gb A-data 1333 c9 and a 4gb Geil 1600 c11 I know, I know - don't mix 'em you fool etc. But they are working fine over a year or more as long as I don't push too hard. Now they are set at 1333 8-8-8-22-30.
So, please, suggestions?