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Hi i have had a a 4.6 ghz on my system for around 9 months.
The problem is recently i started getting freezes in Battlefield 3, i put this down to an OC i had on my HD 6970 GPU so went back to stock settings but still crashes in BF3!
So someone mentied it could be my CPU OC, i thought i doubt it i have had it at 4.6 for 9 months and BF3 since release.
But i thought i would go back to stock settings and sure enough the game didn't freeze anymore!
So i have a few questions if you could help.
1: Why would an OC that's been fine start to become unstable, i don't think its a heat issue i blew all dust out of system and and use core temp and it only hits around 70c under load.
2: After this i thought i would use the ASUS software with the auto tune as people said these were pretty stable and i thought this would be a quick fix until i go and do it manualy through the bios again.
I tried the FAST and EXTREME method and even on the lowest clock which gave me around 4.3 ghz it becomes unstable under intelburn!
I noticed with the auto method it uses BLCK as well usualy sets it to 103, i thought its best to leave this option alone as does it make OC more unstable, i mean when i OC i go by the multiplyer and don't touch the BLCk setting.
3: I notice when people use Intelburn they say test 5-10 times, now does this mean if you continued to use Intelburn it will make any OC unstable?
The reason i ask is i set it to 20 passes on High and it crashed on around the 14th pass where some people would have stopped at 10.
Sorry about the long winded questions, any help would be apreciated.
Guy
The problem is recently i started getting freezes in Battlefield 3, i put this down to an OC i had on my HD 6970 GPU so went back to stock settings but still crashes in BF3!
So someone mentied it could be my CPU OC, i thought i doubt it i have had it at 4.6 for 9 months and BF3 since release.
But i thought i would go back to stock settings and sure enough the game didn't freeze anymore!
So i have a few questions if you could help.
1: Why would an OC that's been fine start to become unstable, i don't think its a heat issue i blew all dust out of system and and use core temp and it only hits around 70c under load.
2: After this i thought i would use the ASUS software with the auto tune as people said these were pretty stable and i thought this would be a quick fix until i go and do it manualy through the bios again.
I tried the FAST and EXTREME method and even on the lowest clock which gave me around 4.3 ghz it becomes unstable under intelburn!
I noticed with the auto method it uses BLCK as well usualy sets it to 103, i thought its best to leave this option alone as does it make OC more unstable, i mean when i OC i go by the multiplyer and don't touch the BLCk setting.
3: I notice when people use Intelburn they say test 5-10 times, now does this mean if you continued to use Intelburn it will make any OC unstable?
The reason i ask is i set it to 20 passes on High and it crashed on around the 14th pass where some people would have stopped at 10.
Sorry about the long winded questions, any help would be apreciated.
Guy