Overclocked my cpu, firefox crashing quite a lot - related??

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:16

I over clocked my E8400 to 4ghz using 445 x 9 on a 1:1 ratio with memory at 490mhz..

Shortly after this firefox has been crashing a lot

cpu is running at 1.3volts and mem at 1.9

How would i solve this, and is this likely to be the issue, never had any problems with anything before i overclocked..

Balb0wa · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:17

Chrisavz said:
I over clocked my E8400 to 4ghz using 445 x 9 on a 1:1 ratio with memory at 490mhz..

Shortly after this firefox has been crashing a lot

cpu is running at 1.3volts and mem at 1.9

How would i solve this, and is this likely to be the issue, never had any problems with anything before i overclocked..

run it at stock, see if it still does it, simples :cool:

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:24

lol i guess ill try that =], but if it was the clock how would i go about fixing this?

Balb0wa · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:25

Chrisavz said:
lol i guess ill try that =], but if it was the clock how would i go about fixing this?

more volts somewhere., ive found with unstable overclocks that programs can crash, firefox included.

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:27

somewhere, were would be a good place to start you think, im only a novice overclocker, i know enough but lack knowledge on the voltage area of it :/

Balb0wa · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:29

Chrisavz said:
somewhere, were would be a good place to start you think, im only a novice overclocker, i know enough but lack knowledge on the voltage area of it :/

your chip may not do 4ghz stable, try 3.8 etc. more volts = more heat, good cooling.

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:36

I'll try it when i get home later, guess 200mhz isnt much to lose

Memphis · 27 Mar 2010 at 12:53

Did you actually do any stress testing what so ever after your overclock?

wannabedamned · 27 Mar 2010 at 13:13

Memphis said:
Did you actually do any stress testing what so ever after your overclock?

This was going to be my first question

Have you stressed the processor overclocked using prime95 or orthos?

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 13:29

No i havnt, what would you recommend i use?

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 13:30

ah sorry only just seen your post, no i havnt yet but i will later, i think ive got prime95 already so ill run that, i have a program that stresses the cores and shows the temps, how long should i run it for, an hour?

Chrisavz · 27 Mar 2010 at 15:22

Orthos failed straight away at 4ghz, seems stable at 3.8

, gonna leave it running for a while

nWovance · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:15

Chrisavz said:
Orthos failed straight away at 4ghz, seems stable at 3.8 , gonna leave it running for a while

Follow an overclockings guide on a simple google search mate, its simple once you know what you are doing.

chuffnut · 28 Mar 2010 at 00:48

I have recently upgraded to Firefox 3.6.2 and it seem's i have had a few browser crashes , so it might not be a hardware problem.

86JR · 28 Mar 2010 at 07:22

What is your PSU ?

Chrisavz · 28 Mar 2010 at 12:45

i will let you know when im at home, its a good one though, 700watt atx 2.2, cost me bout £80 at the time, maybe i need to increase the voltage somewere..but yeah the crashes seemed to happen a lot right after i upgraded firefox but still, how come orthos failed straight away?

I'm ok to leave it at 3.8ghz tho tbh, but if someone has a suggestion how to keep it at 4ghz, then maybe ill try it, maybe im missing a voltage somewere

Chrisavz · 28 Mar 2010 at 12:48

Got it from another thread =]

specs are

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 DHX PC2-6400C4DHX TwinX (2x1GB)
150GB Western Digital 10000RPM 16MB Cache Raptor X
Asus Maximus Formula Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
Coolermaster Real Power 700w Modular
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)

Chrisavz · 28 Mar 2010 at 12:49

nWovance said:
Follow an overclockings guide on a simple google search mate, its simple once you know what you are doing.

I will do mate, seems straight forward enough

bigjimmyauk · 28 Mar 2010 at 12:57

firefox can be a bit iffy sometimes i used to run my cpu at stock and firefox ran fine after i overclocked my system it kept crashing. I uninstalled it and re-downloaded it and it was fine. Ther was another guy on the forum called macca that had the same problem he did the same re-downloaded it and it was fine.

Maybe just one of those things i also found out that firefox don't like high FSB on amd systems anything over 241 FSB on my system causes firefox to crash even if i use something that equates to 3.2 GHZ it still crashes but anyway enough waffle hope you get it sorted

Chrisavz · 28 Mar 2010 at 22:33

haha so firefox is as stable as a ****ed monkey then =]