What are signs of instabilities during cpu overclock?
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I've got my i7 920 up to 3.1 ghz at 57c under full load, but if I'm going to continue further I would like to know what I can look for to tell that it's becoming unstable before I get into random-bsod territory.
Thanks in advance if you consent to reply :D
Run test programs from long lengths of time, Such as, Prime95. Will both load the processor as well as check for errors in calculation.
yerp with the new prime95 just run a torture test overnight and watch temps for the first few hours to make sure they dont get to high, then let it run the test all night and if it stopped then its OC'd too far
[QUOTE=Bladerunner1;17012317]yerp with the new prime95 just run a torture test overnight and watch temps for the first few hours to make sure they dont get to high, then let it run the test all night and if it stopped then its OC'd too far[/QUOTE]
It depends when it stops. If it doesn't make it 5 minutes in, it's too unstable. But if it goes a good 10 hours without a single error, you should be pretty safe. I have an OC'd machine that can go a few hours without an error, but it WILL encounter one eventually. My PC runs great. The only thing is, probably about once a week it will just completely restart out of the blue, and I know it's because it's unstable. But that's basically the only side effect. There isn't any file corruption or anything like that. If there was, all the programs I've installed would have never worked.
[QUOTE=Bladerunner1;17012317]yerp with the new prime95 just run a torture test overnight and watch temps for the first few hours to make sure they dont get to high, then let it run the test all night and if it stopped then its OC'd too far[/QUOTE]
...or just run about 10 passes with intelburntest
One time I ran about five torture tests at the same time. My computer went :suicide:
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