CPU over locking help

Ah ok, missed that.
But if I got 70 max on cinebench, a full load stress test is likely to be near 100 degrees right? I know you said that nothing uses that much power... but if I'm gonna run a full load stress test for 30+ minutes at that temp to check for stability, isn't that a bit dangerous for my cpu?
 
Ah ok, that's good to know. I'll try to OC it to 4.4 later when I'm home from work. Thanks for all the help, really appreciate it :D

Oh one more thing. I got 2x 4gb 1600 ram at the moment. Was gonna upgrade it to 16gb.
Should I buy another 2 sticks of 4gb 1600 or would it be ok to get 2 x 2400s to mix with the 1600s I've got?
Or would you completely scrap that and just buy 2x 8gb 2400s?
 
Ah very nice. The only thing I noticed he did different in the video was set the Turbo power and core current to 250 each. Unless I missed something.

So I'll set the clock back to 3.4Ghz and try with the cores at 4.5Ghz.

Will let you know how it goes later the evening :)
 
Right, so I've been doing a bit of testing at 4.5Ghz.
I have the clock set at 3.4Ghz and each core turbo set to 4.5Ghz.

Crashed after testing at 1.175V and 1.185V.
Been testing it on 1.2V now for about 20 mins with no probs.

Temps are at around 65degrees on cinebench and max 90 degrees for Prime95.

How is this sounding?
 
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ok, so it crashed at 1.175v, 1.185v and at 1.2v

So I think i've got it running steadily on 1.225v.
Temps are maxing at 97 degrees on Prime95 and around 67 degrees on cinebench.
 
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Danny75 said:
Cinebench is now 67C with 1.225v whereas earlier it was 75C at 1.2v? Is the room a lot colder now or something? ;)

If 97C on Prime is accurate then you should stop using Prime with the cooler you have. Play it safe. Use less tortuous stress/benches and use your computer normally, game etc see how it goes.
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the 75 was a typo.... i do apologise. 65ish is correct for cinebench.
 
zipp0r said:
have you cleaned the dust out of the heatsink and redone the thermal paste?
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Uhh..... no? I mean I've given the computer a clean out a few times, couple months ago was the last. I didn't give the heat sink any special attention though.. and I've never redone the thermal paste.

Should I?
 
hardkore said:
If i was you i'd get to whatever speed/volts you hit 70c at after 30 mins on a stress program and leave it there. Its cold this time of year, need to take into account when it warms up again.

If temps are good at 4.2ghz but not so at 4.4ghz its really not worth the hassle in my books.
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Hmm. So you're kinda saying the opposite of what Danny said in terms of the stress testing.
 
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