6 months on and not stable anymore?

fluffmyster · 12 Sep 2010 at 22:18

Like the title says, I am using the same settings as I was 6 months ago which at the time let me pass 50 runs of LinX with max memory, 10 hours+ of Prime95 and 3 hours of OCCT with max memory.

I ran Prime95 again recently and only got 4.5 hours out of it before core 4 stopped working. I used to run 50 runs LinX flawlessly with max memory but recently failed (not sure when, maybe half way through or thereabouts).

I can run 10 hours+ of memtest so it's not dodgy ram.

Any ideas?

Cheers

BigBruiserAl · 12 Sep 2010 at 22:39

The chip will be degrading over time, more so if you keep doing pointless stress tests for 15 hours + every 6 months.

notch up the vcore by 1

fluffmyster · 12 Sep 2010 at 22:45

Alrighty I'll give it a go. I only stress tested in the beginning during the overclocking stage obviously and then randomly had a go recently which is when I noticed it.

Actually before I do I don't think I want to raise the voltage any more. I'm at 1.375 without LLC and don't want to have to go higher. Might just decrease the clocks or leave it as it is.

Big.Wayne · 12 Sep 2010 at 23:08

BigBruiserAl said:
The chip will be degrading over time

Theophany · 13 Sep 2010 at 00:15

BigBruiserAl said:
The chip will be degrading over time

That would be a truly terrifying rate of degradation and probably warrant an RMA.

That being said, the OP has yet to post what CPU it is and what OC he/she is running.

fluffmyster · 13 Sep 2010 at 00:30

Theophany said:
That would be a truly terrifying rate of degradation and probably warrant an RMA.

That being said, the OP has yet to post what CPU it is and what OC he/she is running.

Yeah sorry, forgot to mention that as it used to be in my sig. I'm running a Q9550 E0 at 4011Mhz and currently using 1.375 vcore (llc off), 1.59pll and 1.36vtt for the cpu. And yeah I would be worried if my cpu was to degrade that quickly. I know I'm at the upper limits of what Intel safely recommend but I'm not using LLC and I'm a good bit under 1.4v.

xtremedetailz · 13 Sep 2010 at 11:27

fluffmyster said:
Yeah sorry, forgot to mention that as it used to be in my sig. I'm running a Q9550 E0 at 4011Mhz and currently using 1.375 vcore (llc off), 1.59pll and 1.36vtt for the cpu. And yeah I would be worried if my cpu was to degrade that quickly. I know I'm at the upper limits of what Intel safely recommend but I'm not using LLC and I'm a good bit under 1.4v.

Maybe its the board

one of the chokes or capacitors might be on its way out hence the worse overclock.