IntelBurnTest Failure

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I've just ran an IntelBurnTest and these were the results:



I have the stock Intel CPU cooler and an Asus P8P67 board. When I play games or do CPU intensive work the CPU hovers around 50 degrees.

But the IntelBurnTest said my system failed a stability test. I haven't really encountered any stability or temperature issues when playing games like GTA IV, Black Ops and BC2 for hours, so is my system really unstable?

It's only overclocked to 4Ghz through the Asus Bios (I changed the turbo multiplier, changed a few volt settings and ram time settings)

Should I reset everything back to stock and run it at 3.7Ghz or am I fine to leave it at 4Ghz?
 
I edited the settings in the Asus Bios when you start a computer.

The settings I use are:

BCLK - 100
Turbo Ratio - 40x
Internal PLL Overvoltage - Enabled
Ram Frequency - 1600Mhz
EPU Power Saving - Disabled
DRAM Timings - 9-9-9-28-1
CPU Voltage - 1.260v
DRAM Voltage - 1.50v
CPU PLL Voltage - 1.60v

I've read a few times that even with the stock Intel CPU cooler you can overclock it to 4.2Ghz..hopefully I can fix this
 
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Ran it again and failed, the temperature was peaking at around 80 degrees for all 4 cores.

But am I right in thinking this test isn't suitable for me since I literally never use above 40% CPU usage and that's when I run GTA IV at maximum settings, Firefox/winamp/MSN/utorrent running in the background?

So if my temperatures stay around 50 degrees when I do the most work then everything is fine or am I wrong?

Just for a quick test, if I run GTA IV and BC2, Firefox, Winamp, MSN and I defrag my system the temps go up to 60 degrees.
 
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Well I'm not looking to overclock it too much, I just thought I'd run it at 4Ghz. I'm not gonna look too much into this anymore as I'll never run my CPU at over 60% for the tasks I do. Although it is tempting to buy a CPU cooler for £20 just to be safe!
 
I would get a better cooler , I think Internal PLL Overvoltage might also be giving your processor a good bit more voltage ,install cpu-z and see what the core voltage is when you run the stress test .If it goes over 1.35 I would disable internal pll overvoltage in the bios.Hope this helps:)
 
RobotGirl said:
I would get a better cooler , I think Internal PLL Overvoltage might also be giving your processor a good bit more voltage ,install cpu-z and see what the core voltage is when you run the stress test .If it goes over 1.35 I would disable internal pll overvoltage in the bios.Hope this helps:)
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The voltage doesn't go above 1.260 so hopefully that's ok.

Cheers for the help though :)
 
+1 for a new cooler. have a look how much ocuk sell the stock cooler for its an eye opener lol
 
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