well right when I thought I was figuring this stuff out something like this happens to smack me back to reality.
I've been running my Q6600 at 3375Mhz for about a month and for whatever reason I up and decided to try and go higher. Temps were great, under 55c all the way up to 3528Mhz. At this point the Vcore was up around 1.38 at startup down to around 1.32 running prime95. This ran stable for about 30-35 minutes so naturally I went another step, 2Mhz bump with the x9 multiplier. Crashed after 15 minutes of prime, went up a tick with the vcore, same thing, another tick vcore, another crash. Okay so I figured that was my wall and went back to 3528 with the previous vcore that was stable. Ran prime and this crashed only about 15 minutes in. Okay... so I figured maybe it just needs another bump in Vcore but no help.
So I started slowly backtracking (I kept good notes off all my progress) through other clocks that were stable but they were all crashing, all at the exact same step in prime, the 2nd test of the 2nd section of the mixxed torture test. So I figured I'd play it safe to check things out and go back to my settings that I had run for a month or so, that I had previously primed for 2 hours without issues, and same thing, it crashes during that test about 20 minutes into prime95.
What did I do? I deleted and re-downloaded prime95. I really don't know where to start.. what could I have done? I thought the vcore was getting a little high but I swear I never saw over 56C on any of the cores. Ram never got over 394 bus speed. Computer still runs fine and I even fired up crysis and played a little and the fps look the same as they were before. Why does prime keep killing it though?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-adam
edit: I thought maybe the RAM was at fault so I snapped a pic of the settings in BIOS. I was kind of unsure of the highlighted setting so let me know if that may be the case. I also have a picture of what CPU-Z is displaying for the first screen. It's DDR2 6400 800Mhz just to avoid any confusion.
I've been running my Q6600 at 3375Mhz for about a month and for whatever reason I up and decided to try and go higher. Temps were great, under 55c all the way up to 3528Mhz. At this point the Vcore was up around 1.38 at startup down to around 1.32 running prime95. This ran stable for about 30-35 minutes so naturally I went another step, 2Mhz bump with the x9 multiplier. Crashed after 15 minutes of prime, went up a tick with the vcore, same thing, another tick vcore, another crash. Okay so I figured that was my wall and went back to 3528 with the previous vcore that was stable. Ran prime and this crashed only about 15 minutes in. Okay... so I figured maybe it just needs another bump in Vcore but no help.
So I started slowly backtracking (I kept good notes off all my progress) through other clocks that were stable but they were all crashing, all at the exact same step in prime, the 2nd test of the 2nd section of the mixxed torture test. So I figured I'd play it safe to check things out and go back to my settings that I had run for a month or so, that I had previously primed for 2 hours without issues, and same thing, it crashes during that test about 20 minutes into prime95.
What did I do? I deleted and re-downloaded prime95. I really don't know where to start.. what could I have done? I thought the vcore was getting a little high but I swear I never saw over 56C on any of the cores. Ram never got over 394 bus speed. Computer still runs fine and I even fired up crysis and played a little and the fps look the same as they were before. Why does prime keep killing it though?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-adam
edit: I thought maybe the RAM was at fault so I snapped a pic of the settings in BIOS. I was kind of unsure of the highlighted setting so let me know if that may be the case. I also have a picture of what CPU-Z is displaying for the first screen. It's DDR2 6400 800Mhz just to avoid any confusion.
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Feels good to be back where I was a month ago. I'll let it run and see if something else doesn't show up...
