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***official amd 83x0 overclocking thread***

I got a freeze again there, thing is stress testing it goes fine. It locked up when I was playing with aida streaming MoTD - cpu at 3% LOL
 
Are you using LinX?

I'm telling you man it's the hardest one to get through. It absolutely bitch slaps the FX CPUs lol. It's pretty quick too, but I found that if I get through that I can get through anything.
 
No I think I will try it but a couple of my lock ups were when the system was pretty much doing nothing. A few have been when I was hammering the cores doing folding but I have chopped and changed the settings a lot so hard to get a pattern of where to start really.

All I can say is around the 4.5ghz area you have to increase voltages and change settings. If only the 8 pack guide was released it may save me some time! :D
 
Well as I say mate, LinX will sort you out. You'll either freeze or shut down lol.

I had issues with sleep/waking but again, LinX soon sorts out whether you're stable or not. 5 passes is enough.
 
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Linpack first go, passed no problem. :cool:
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Left crunching overnight - Keyboard LED shows it crashed at 02:30am.

Was a bugger to get booted again with mobo LED being red. Had to switch off the PSU to discharge it as the DirectKey button would not help. Seriously Andy, the overnight folding seems to be the better test for stability as it passes LinX no problem.
 
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Hi Thont, have you captured any BSODs when this happens or looked at event recorder or dump files? Will help diagnose the cause of instability. How long did you run memtest to check your memory oc?
 
No BSOD alex. The event viewer just lists the critical error which I already knew when I got it back booted up:



All this tells you is:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
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Very generic and vague. This could lead somewhere though:

 
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alex_123_fra said:
Hmm, so when you do a file search, are there ny .dmp files on your os hard drive?
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Unless it's a power saving feature kicking in (which I think I have turned them all off especially BIOS settings) I will have to put it down to the overclock. If shoving the voltages up removes this then so be it, I would just like to know which ones are worth pushing and where the dangerous threshold of them lies.

After this mornings recovery I upped the VDDA voltage as farmerboy reckons this helped him. I backed off the multiplier by one too to see if that helps.
 
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Orange mate have you tried overclocking to 5 GHz with only 2 sticks of ram in (8gb)?

Edited to say if you have a 2x 8gb kit, try one stick.
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no. i might try if i get bored but as of now im turning my attention to getting it fully stable at 4.7 ish and then moving on to gpu tweaking
 
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Unless it's a power saving feature kicking in (which I think I have turned them all off especially BIOS settings) I will have to put it down to the overclock. If shoving the voltages up removes this then so be it, I would just like to know which ones are worth pushing and where the dangerous threshold of them lies.

After this mornings recovery I upped the VDDA voltage as farmerboy reckons this helped him. I backed off the multiplier by one too to see if that helps.
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If there is no dump file and you haven't manually turned off the page file/changed hdd where the page file is, then this suggests the system is suddenly powering off. This may be due to a whole host of hardware related issues but undoubtedly the CPU oc is driving it. What temps does the CPU/VRMs reach overnight?

Did you test your memory using memtest overnight? Also, try folding with everything at stock to ensure there is no more sinister cause.
 
I set defaults in the BIOS then overclocked my RAM on three occasions relaxing timings as I went higher. Memtest completed all the tests usually taking ~40mins to do a full cycle. I spent a few sessions testing the memory doing this last week.

I have since focussed on the CPU trying to get that to 4.8 stable. It runs well but like I say the folding test usually rats out any issues. Temperatures never exceed 52c on the CPUs.
 
This is the tricky part of fine tuning stability for things like folding. If you want to totally rule out memory, I would run memtest on the dimms overnight to ensure their oc is ok. Then you can tick them off.

I would also leave it folding at totally stock for 1/2 nights to ensure the same issue doesn't happen. I've had something similar with a PSU which was on its way out and the system kept powering down under load. Replacing this fixed it but I had to make that decision through a process of elimination. The other thing I am not sure about is what exactly VRM temp protection does on ROG/Sabertooth boards. If they reach a certain temp/sustained temp, does it power down to protect the board?
 
Sleep mode on my old Asrock caused me no end of problems. If it went to sleep not only would it refuse to wake up but it would then become completely dead until I powered it down and unplugged the power cable.

It doesn't do that on my CHVFZ thank god.
 
Hey guys this thread is progressing fast!!

Don't be afraid to give the CPU/NB some beans, 1.45v is doable on air but you should only need 1.4v.

I'm still on 4.8 rock stable admittedly I don't fold or owt but I can game, and encode for hours no issues.
 
alex_123_fra said:
This is the tricky part of fine tuning stability for things like folding. If you want to totally rule out memory, I would run memtest on the dimms overnight to ensure their oc is ok. Then you can tick them off.

I would also leave it folding at totally stock for 1/2 nights to ensure the same issue doesn't happen. I've had something similar with a PSU which was on its way out and the system kept powering down under load. Replacing this fixed it but I had to make that decision through a process of elimination. The other thing I am not sure about is what exactly VRM temp protection does on ROG/Sabertooth boards. If they reach a certain temp/sustained temp, does it power down to protect the board?
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Yeah good suggestion mate I will set back to stock each night before bed and see.
 
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Sleep mode on my old Asrock caused me no end of problems. If it went to sleep not only would it refuse to wake up but it would then become completely dead until I powered it down and unplugged the power cable.

It doesn't do that on my CHVFZ thank god.
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Yeah I was thinking along them lines too, resetting I had to unplug the lead and power up to get BIOS access back.
 
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