I think something might be wrong....

Yeggstry · 3 Aug 2008 at 21:10

Hi guys,

Well this evening I was listening to music, crunching on rosetta at home and running the GPU client, when I heard my music skipping quite a bit. I checked it out in both winamp and songbird and it happens with all tracks that I've played so far, and it happens every 3-4 seconds.

I know that my CPU was running quite hot last week before I noticed, and I switched off all my DC clients until I've figured out what the problem is. Is there anything I can do/ run to check to see what the problem might be?

Any advice would be appreciated,

Yeggs

UPDATE: Ok, I went back to basics. Reset my overclock and it seems to be playing fine. Evidently I didn't have enough voltage going into the CPU. Sorry, I panicked a bit there

What do you guys do in the summer with regards to your overclocks? I'm thinking of turning mine down to 3.4 and 1.45v in the bios, the overclock doesn't seem to hold without 1.475

MikeTimbers · 3 Aug 2008 at 21:40

My overclocks are not that much on the limit that they notice the change in ambient temperatures.

Pilgrim57 · 3 Aug 2008 at 21:49

Hi Yeggstry - My PC has locked up twice since I started Rosetta & 1 WU crashed. At least 1 lock up caused by room reaching + 25C & my AMD @ 52 or 53C. I'd gone out & had to turn off the air-con.
I think it is quite normal to have to scale back a high o/c in the summer. Better that than keep pushing the volts.

Berserker · 3 Aug 2008 at 22:04

I've had a WU crash too, and that's on a system with a mild overclock (Q6600 @ 2.88). It was a Beta WU though so is most likely just the client.

I don't aggressively overclock, so even in this weather my Q6600 tops out just over 60C, which is normal (i.e. what you'd get from the stock Intel HSF).

Pilgrim57 · 3 Aug 2008 at 22:07

Berserker said:
I've had a WU crash too, and that's on a system with a mild overclock (Q6600 @ 2.88). It was a Beta WU though so is most likely just the client.

Should have mentioned my WU was a beta one too.

Mattus · 3 Aug 2008 at 22:14

Skipping music seems like a strange thing to happen due to a dodgy overclock - it sounds like more of a priority issue to me. Then again, you did say the other day that your CPU was running at 85c+, which could well be causing some problems. If you leave your overclock at the present setting, but pause Rosetta, does the skipping stop? Try finding your media player in task manager and setting its priority to 'high' - does that make any difference?

My quad is running at 70c (about the same as it did under F@H) and I haven't seen any misbehaviour yet.

Berserker · 3 Aug 2008 at 22:33

Yeah, the mid-80s C does appear to be the tipping point for instability so I'd suggesting backing off the overclock or and/or turning up the fans (if you can bear the noise).