Overclocking naivety?

Dr_Krieg

Dr_Krieg

Dr_Krieg

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Hey, back in 2013 I bought the Quasar 270i bundle

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/quas...ocked-haswell-gaming-pc-bundle-bu-165-oe.html

A couple of years ago I wanted to increase the amount of RAM as I use this PC for game development. So I doubled up on the RAM (same stuff) that came in the original bundle, I knew that the overclock that Overclockers had done to my PC would very likely be broken by the RAM upgrade so I changed to the "no overclock" profile in the BIOS. This set it running at 3.5GHz, at which I was content for quite a while.

So today I decided to try switching the overclocked profile back on, I then ran the OCCT standard test, I had a BSOD within about 3 minutes. I've just gone into the BIOS and lowered the clock speed (CPU multiplier I believe (can't check as test is running)) down to 4.3GHz and begun running the test again.

So the question is, am I being incredibly naive in my attempt?
 
After 27 minutes one of the cores reached 86 degrees and the test was aborted.

Is there a simple way I can salvage the old overclock with the new RAM quantity? I'm not aiming for crazy levels, just something more than the base levels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Sorry I forgot to check back here for replies after a couple days.

@stuie It's the Alpenfohn K2 Mount Doom cooler.

@Gripen90 I'll check that out, I'd taken the additional RAM out after I failed at overclocking it myself a few times, wasn't sure if I'd damage it. The old profile works still with the original amount of RAM again.

@Threepwood Pretty clean, I clean it at least once a year with compressed air.
 
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