O/C Now unstable????

[nepas]

after taking out my gfx card earlier to re seat the block as temps were a bit high(idle at 50,load at 65)now its down to idle at 35 and load at 40.All my problems started after putting the card back in.When i first restarted the comp it would not fire up and just froze with the led display stuck at code 26,so I rest the cmos and fired back up,now after putting all my settings back and o/c'ing again the damm thing will not last more than 5 mins when gaming as it just locks up.

Any ideas?

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

The volts for that kind of a clock speed seem very low to me to be honest. I suggest you bump it up to 1.4v and work your way down if it is stable, keep going down until it is unstable, then bump it up one notch, I am sure you're familiar with this process.

I know you have problems after reseating a graphics card which I find very strange to say the least, though I suggest upping the volts on your CPU! If that doesn't work, maybe turn down the clocks on the graphics back to stock with your CPU still overclocked. Everything is worth a try, trouble shooting and trying different ways to get around it is the best way

Good luck

 

[nepas]

the weird part is all these settings were stable and have been running at these settings for the past couple of months,i just dont understand how a re seat of a gfx card can cause such instability.

o well back to messing in the bios for a while

 

[cl0ck_ed]

Maybe , the extra heat dumped into the loop from the gfx as the block is working better is causing the cpu to over heat?? any temps of your cpu while gaming?

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

I highly doubt that to be honest because it was already in the loop. I think the volts are too low considering my friend has a pretty good chip and requires like 1.42v to be on 3.6 and 1.488v on 3.8

Try upping your volts to around 1.4v and see if it is a bit more stable

 

[nepas]

cant understand why i should need to bump up the volts now when it has been happy with 1.25v for 3.6 for a while,but have nothing else to go on so everything is worth a try

@cl0ck_ed:the cpu never goes past 45 on any core when under full load

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

1.25v!? OMG you have a golden chip there, try for 4GHz?

Nahh just joking. Any ways, it is possible that it wasn't stable and you where just lucky it didn't crash.

I think upping the volts to try and figure this one out is in order.. I am only giving suggestions, as that 1.25v that you used to be stable on is far too low for that kind of a clock speed!

 

[nepas]

it was tested with prime95 for 18 hours and seemed stable at that voltage.The vid for this chip is 1.21,so my running at 1.25 is not necessarily to blame.As it is a nice low vid I was gonna try for 4ghz,but need to work out why its playing up all of a sudden

EDIT:

at the moment my temps are:

cores:32:33:27:35(with speedstep turned on so @2.4ghz)

chipset:34

pwm:39

gpu:35

gpu ambient:28

gpu mem:28

all temps from everest and checked with every other temp program i have