overclocking issue

jimmyjam1234 · 2 May 2010 at 20:32

Hi guys i recently purchased an overclocked i5 system from ocuk and am currently having problems with a failed overclock. The problem being after a couple of hours the pc will freeze and after i switch it off and on, it comes up on the dos screen that the reason was due to a failed overclock,Ive gone into the bios and selected the presaved ocuk overclock settings (as it resets it to default after it freezes) only for it to do it again a couple of hours later. Any ideas guys?, i know abit about pcs so if theres any settings etc i need to change i can do it this end. ps ive sent it to the ocuk customer section also, but any ideas from you guys would be great also

Cheers

James

Mr Krugga · 2 May 2010 at 20:44

Don't change any settings in BIOS, if it's unstable, contact OcUK. It's in their very interest now to help you out solving the issue - you purchased an overclocked bundle and you expect it to work properly.

Nodiggidy123 · 2 May 2010 at 21:05

seeing a lot of these threads.

jimmyjam1234 · 2 May 2010 at 21:08

dont get me wrong when the pc is working its the nuts, i can never leave it running for a long period thou, it just dies on me.

Nodiggidy123 · 2 May 2010 at 21:14

like mr krugga said. your best off speaking to ocuk. u paid a premium for the overclock and its not stable.

Mr Krugga · 2 May 2010 at 21:17

I bet they just sell a lot of these stuff lately and don't have enough time to test them properly. I was always curious of the tweaking they actually do when overclocking them bundles, do they use some pre-sets and then adjust them or do them each individually?

Nodiggidy123 · 2 May 2010 at 22:21

my guess is. once they have overclocked a few they get a idea what the bundle needs and develop a generic profile which they use on future bundles. id be supprised it they fully tested them although i could be wrong.

iNPUt · 2 May 2010 at 22:29

Nodiggidy123 said:
my guess is. once they have overclocked a few they get a idea what the bundle needs and develop a generic profile which they use on future bundles. id be supprised it they fully tested them although i could be wrong.

I thought they would test it, different boards, cpus ram can all make or break an overclock, they probably leave a quite large header percentage on the basic profile to accommodate for these differences, but sometimes in a few cases it might not be enough.

As said before talk to OcUK, if it was a bundle you brought maybe it overheating since the heatsink may have been installed incorrectly?

If its prebuilt don't be messing they will fix it for you.

jimmyjam1234 · 2 May 2010 at 22:55

hi its a full system i bought of them, allthough surely if it was a bundle you would have to be slightly retarded to put a heat sink on wrong?, Ill wait for them to answer on the customer forum.