Intel Burn failure

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 17:13

Yesterday i swapped all of my hardware out of my old computer and into a new case, onto a new motherboard, with a new HSF. Everything else is exactly the same. Now with my old setup, passed Intel Burn on maximum. Now, with the new setup, it passed on standard, but failed on maximum.

I ran Intel Burn test, on maximum, , running 5 times. When i came back to my computer it said that it had failed. It went through twice fine:

As you can see my max temperatures were at around 63c. Surely this wouldn't cause it to fail? Everything is at stock and when i ran Intel burn with the same hardware but different motherboard+HSF it passed.

Any ideas?

Been running Prime95 Blend for 3 hours so far with no problems yet. Was looking to increase the RAM voltage, but am hesitant now

Cheers

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 17:19

But it is Kingston HyperX and i haven't had any problems with it at all or before. Also, i am running Prime Blend and there hasn't been any problems :confused:

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 17:51

I personally haven't but they may well be different from my other board:

I know that the RAM voltage on my other motherboard was 1.8V as well and i am assuming the CPU voltage is the same too.
Why did it manage to be OK during Prime Blend if it is a problem with the voltage :confused:

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 20:29

Fair enough. So any reason why it would be unstable now? Everything is set the same as before, just a new motherboard and a better HSF? :confused:

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 21:09

The RAM settings are exactly the same as my other motherboard. 1.8V. I could not change the voltage of anything on my other motherboard.
Not sure what voltage the Q6600 should be at, but the current voltage in in the screenshot of CPUZ

Jakstaar2007 · 13 Nov 2009 at 22:05

I did have a Dell XPS.
As you can see in the CPUZ screenshots, the voltages are Below 2.0 and 1.4.

Not sure what it can be then

Is there a memory testing utility for use in Windows? Don't have a spare disk to put Memtest on.

Can i use the windows memory tester?

If anything, i'd want it to be a problem with the RAM, that is under a lifetime warranty. What else could it be?

Will run OCCT tomorrow when i have a few hours.

Jakstaar2007 · 14 Nov 2009 at 15:53

OK, ran the windows memory diagnostic and there are no errors, will try another memory tester and OCCT.
Changed mobo from Dell XPS to an XFX 780i with Thermalright TRUE Black.

Was thinking, could it be that the RAM is under the amount of voltage? What about if i tried to up the voltage to 1.9v which is the recommended for the RAM, even though it ran on the automatic voltage of 1.8v before.

Anymore suggestions whilst i run OCCT?

Cheers for the help.

Jack

Edit: Oh and which option should i choose to run in OCCT?

Jakstaar2007 · 14 Nov 2009 at 17:07

Just ran OCCT for an hour on the standard CPU:OCCT one, and it had no problems. :confused:

Jakstaar2007 · 14 Nov 2009 at 17:11

But i ran it twice and it failed twice, both at exactly the same time :confused:

Jakstaar2007 · 14 Nov 2009 at 17:12

Could it be just that the motherboard doesn't like my RAM at the current voltage? May try upping it to 1.9V (currently at 1.850v i think in the BIOS) see if that changes anything.

Jakstaar2007 · 14 Nov 2009 at 19:44

Changed it to 1.9v in the BIOS< yet when i loaded up CPUZ, it said 1.8v still. So on the next boot i changed it to auto, hopefully that will make it more stable for the time being.

Jakstaar2007 · 15 Nov 2009 at 16:48

But it failed IBT on the third pass. passed the first two. Also, it passed the OCCT CPU test.

Jakstaar2007 · 15 Nov 2009 at 23:28

Surely raising the voltages will make it more unstable?
As others have said, it looks to be the RAM that is the problem, no?
I did raise the RAM voltage up to 1.9v to test it, but CPUZ still said 1.8v. I then rebooted back into the BIOS and the settings were set at 1.9v :confused:

If i can be sure that upping the voltages won't make it worse, then i will happily do it as i wanted to overclock the system. That is why i bought the new motherboard.

Jakstaar2007 · 16 Nov 2009 at 19:31

If others agree with upping the voltage a bit, what do people with this chip think i should up it to taking into consideration my set up and temps?

Cheers

Jakstaar2007 · 17 Nov 2009 at 14:38

Anybody? What voltage should i up the CPU to? And what about the RAM?

Jakstaar2007 · 17 Nov 2009 at 15:15

Yep the BIOS is up to date.
Just bought a fan controller, so i will install that and then up the voltages in the BIOS on boot.

Any ideas why the RAM voltage didn't change in CPUZ when i changed the RAM voltage from 1.8 to 1.9? It stayed at 1.8 in CPUZ but when i restarted and checked the BIOS it had saved them and it said 1.9v :confused:

Cheers for the advice.
Jack

Jakstaar2007 · 17 Nov 2009 at 15:56

OK, i am just running Prime95 to get the load up to 100%. CPUZ reads 1.248v for the CPU, but sometimes it will jump up a bit to 1.256v :confused:

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Jakstaar2007 · 17 Nov 2009 at 22:58

I will do when i get some time, i expect it could do with reapplying as it took me a while to get the HS on as it is a very fiddly installation.
I am using Arctic Silver.
Also, those load temps were when my HSF was pulling air from the heatsink. I have since move the fan to the oposite side so hopefully that will take off a few degrees, but yea, i know the temps are high.

Cheers, will give it a go and let you know.

Jakstaar2007 · 17 Nov 2009 at 23:02

Also, the reason my temperatures may be a bit high is that this motherboard has a fan for the northbridge as i think it is supposed to get quite hot. This fan is removable, which i have taken advantage of as it is annoyingly loud.

Jakstaar2007 · 18 Nov 2009 at 10:06

OK, i did it this morning, CPU to 1.3v and RAM to 2v.

However, CPUZ still shows the RAM at 1.8v and the CPU under 100% load still only goes up to 1.264v

Don't know what is going on :confused: