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HELP : CPU Error

sas30uk

sas30uk

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Hi guys

Iv been running at 4.4 for a while now and been tested on Prime95 for 6 hours straight with no problems. Today for some reason my PC started to freeze when playing games so i decided to run prime95 again and i get this error

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My Temps are pretty good i think and my Vcore is set to 1.33 in the bios so im not over volting.

At first i thought my graphics card was going crazy and thats why i was having the freezes.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

Is my CPU on the way out or faulty ?

Many thanks for any info.
 
6 hours isnt really long enough to judge if its stable or not, i thought most people aimed for 24hours +. doesnt sound like faulty cpu, just a slight instability somewhere. have you run memtest, and something like 3dmark 11 to rule out ram/gpu?
 
Not tried them yet

I ran Prime95 for 6 hours last week and all was fine, now i run it for less than 1 hour and get errors i just dont understand that why it did not error out the time i ran it for 6 hours ?
 
because everything is random. 2 tests will never be the same, hence why longer run times are used to get a better idea of stability. i can sometime get 5-6hours running OCCT without errors at 3.8GHz, but more often than not i get 10-20mins before it errors on me.
 
Ok thanks for the info i guess ill have to do some more testing but i thought that 4.4 was pretty easy to get to without any problems and as far as i can tell iv done everything correct in my bios, its been fine for the past 2 weeks now all of a sudden today just random freezes when playing games :(

Oh if it helps i hear my fan speed get stuck on maximum when the PC hangs up.
 
have you done anything differently in the last 2 weeks, ie downloaded new drivers for the 6970? maybe there is an underlying problem with something else. also, bear in mind, no 2 setups, no matter how identical the parts, can be the same. so just because someone used 1 set of bios settings, doesnt mean those exact settings will work on yours.
 
if system is unstable then its unstable and the cpu test can only report errors as cpu related. i know if im running OCCT and i get an adobe flashplayer crash, OCCT reports it as a fail on the cpu test, disable adobe from running and can run OCCT for 24hours plus without errors. like windows BSOD, they are not 100% helpfull, they just let you know there is a problem.
 
Installed new graphics drivers and changed bios settings again and all seems to be stable for now at 2hrs 30mins into Prime95

Thanks for your advice paradisiac seems to have helped :)
 
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