My overclock look ok?

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 13:59

As above really this is my first overclock ive ever done seems ok its stable but just want some confirmation please

mjones1 · 28 Nov 2010 at 14:07

Have you stress tested your overclock yet?
if so how long for?

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 14:43

yes and only about an hour, was just checking to see if all that looked OK

jamesfreddie · 28 Nov 2010 at 15:22

Test your CPU with Prime95 for about 8 Hours. Check your temps.

Hope For The Best

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 15:39

ok, but does that look all ok then?

Cookeh · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:17

Looks very reasonable.
Now stress test it with Prime for at least 8 hours, that will tell you if its stable, then you might want to run your most commonly used app for a few hours and see if its stale with that.

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:28

Ok thankyou, i will stress test it ive been playing mafia 2 and games a lot and its been fine

Rob_J · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:30

You shouldn't have a problem with that CPU @ 3.2 even with the voltages at auto, I had mine to 3.8 and primed over 13 hours stable but knocked it back to 3.4 as I didn't need the extra.
Voltages I'm using now are...

vcore 1.24375 --------- going to try and lower this though (shows as 1.224 in CPU-Z)
NB at 1.34
SB at 1.20
VID at 1.2625 (as per coretemp)

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:59

I cant get higher than 3.2 just get a black screen and have to take the mobo battery out and reset it

Rob_J · 28 Nov 2010 at 17:07

I'm no expert but it could be your mobo holding you back, I'm not sure how good the p31's are for overclocking, hopefully someone with more knowledge can help more.

Essexraptor · 28 Nov 2010 at 18:38

If it's your first overclock you should be proud of your achievement

The screenies look fine

Just run a stress test for the suggested time to prove stability and it's a goer!!!

Well done matey

PS. Now you've got the bug I wonder how long before the need for a further tweak is deemed necessary?....lol

Renni 95 · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:28

Well im glad its all good

wont be touching it i dont think mobo wont go any higher!

vorticalspace · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:56

Renni 95 said:
yes and only about an hour, was just checking to see if all that looked OK

Hi
If you can stress test ok with prime etc for 1 Hr with no errors, imo you are good to go

Generally, if its gonna fail an overclock, it does so quite quickly.

For the life of me, I cannot see the point in stress testing for 8/12/24 Hrs at 100% load when nearly all apps you run wil generate nowhere near this load in a real life situation.

My advice, for what it's worth, stress for an hour tops, then just run your pc as you would normally with everyday apps and enjoy

Rob_J · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:07

vorticalspace said:
Hi
If you can stress test ok with prime etc for 1 Hr with no errors, imo you are good to go

Generally, if its gonna fail an overclock, it does so quite quickly.

For the life of me, I cannot see the point in stress testing for 8/12/24 Hrs at 100% load when nearly all apps you run wil generate nowhere near this load in a real life situation.

My advice, for what it's worth, stress for an hour tops, then just run your pc as you would normally with everyday apps and enjoy

I tend to agree with that, I've nothing on my PC that needs the CPU to run at 100% for hours on end, I usually only stress test for 2 1/2 hours at most.