How do I know it's unstable?

Jonny Chee · 13 Jan 2013 at 12:35

I am lowering my voltages on my current 4.5GHz overclock to find lowest most stable settings. I am using Prime95.

How do I know when things become unstable? Will the system just crash?

SeraphX · 13 Jan 2013 at 12:42

Yes it will just crash

Jonny Chee · 13 Jan 2013 at 12:45

SeraphX said:
Yes it will just crash

Cheers. I am at 1.3v currently. No crashes yet...

monkeys · 14 Jan 2013 at 12:40

Also, watch out for errors running prime

Ðudeth · 14 Jan 2013 at 15:46

my I5 ran prime fine no errors, then suddenly hung whilst was streaming video, porb say a good test is to run comp doing what you want it to do and see if it hangs, then asses what you can and tweak.

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Btw i had mine running at 4.8 with core V at 1.31 when this happened, ran prime for 6hrs fine

BluSky · 14 Jan 2013 at 19:30

try intel burn test as well. Sometimes it will find errors when prime will not

chrisoverson · 14 Jan 2013 at 19:32

I've started to use cinebench to test my overclocks before anything else. It generally just fails to benchmark and returns an error, rather than triggering a bluescreen, so you know you need to tweak something.

It isn't a true stress test, but it's a quick way of knowing if you need more volts etc.