Overclock IBT stable but not Dishonored 2 stable?

El Jimben · 6 Feb 2017 at 19:50

I decided to increase the overclock on my CPU from 4.4GHz to 4.6GHz over the weekend as I knew that the chip definitely had some more headroom in it. With that in mind, I increased the vcore to 1.28v from 1.265v and ran 10 loops of IBT on maximum and it passed without issue.

I then played The Division PTS & Wildlands beta for a good while without any problems but when I then played Dishonored 2, I kept getting crashes to the desktop. I lowered the overclock back down to 4.4GHz and I can play for hours so it does seem to be the extra 200MHz that's making it unstable. I've just run 30 loops of IBT at max and it passed the test again so what's going on?? Are some games just not happy with higher clock speeds for whatever reason?

Threepwood · 6 Feb 2017 at 20:38

IBT is only testing the CPU.

Run an GPU burner at the same time, Furmark for example, for truer stability.

8 Pack · 6 Feb 2017 at 20:46

Ibt shows nothing..... Use your pc normally as the stability test.

Threepwood · 6 Feb 2017 at 21:09

Déjà vu.

Rofflay · 6 Feb 2017 at 21:11

You know nothing IBT... hehehehe

The only time you would run IBT now imo is a quick check of temps but even then it probably does more to scare you than anything that loads. And it is always the same old with me too IBT stables but the odd niggling crash in certain games. Certain games must be doing certain things that trigger this.

But the moral is run games and either swap clock speeds for known games (bios profiles or manually) or step down because if Dishonored 2 triggers it now it might degrade and be like that for more games. This is what would bother me i might be inclined to say go back and dont fix what aint broke.

El Jimben · 6 Feb 2017 at 22:46

8 Pack said:
Ibt shows nothing..... Use your pc normally as the stability test.

Rofflay said:
You know nothing IBT... hehehehe

The only time you would run IBT now imo is a quick check of temps but even then it probably does more to scare you than anything that loads. And it is always the same old with me too IBT stables but the odd niggling crash in certain games. Certain games must be doing certain things that trigger this.

But the moral is run games and either swap clock speeds for known games (bios profiles or manually) or step down because if Dishonored 2 triggers it now it might degrade and be like that for more games. This is what would bother me i might be inclined to say go back and dont fix what aint broke.

I guess "back in the day", IBT & Prime were the benchmarks of choice as very little game wise would stress your system as much as they did but times have changed. I'll give a few more titles a go and see how they fair, thanks for the advice gents.