I've got a rough idea what is causing this and I think it's the overclock, but need your advise to be sure.
The PC can be on all day, browsing the web, playing vids & music and it'll be 100% fine. Playing BF3, it can be temperamental. Twice in the last 2 weeks, the PC has rebooted in the middle of playing BF3 and I think it's down to the overclock on my board being at 4.4ghz, VCORE is at 1.3 ish -/+0.2-3.
Errors is as follows:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger
Date: 17/04/2013 17:57:18
Event ID: 18
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
Description:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor ID: 4
The reason the overclock is at 4.4ghz is to remove the bottleneck for the fact I have 2 GTX660's in SLI, giving me a respectable FPS in most games, BF3 is 70+.
Would I be correct in thinking that it's now about time I upgraded to a 3770k as intended? Would reducing the O/C to 4ghz & VCORE to stock be worth trying first? I have reason to believe my motherboard is struggling to keep up, hence the issues here.
I was thinking about the 3820, but not sure I would use it as it was designed and it's expensive for what it is.
Any help would be ideal, thanks.
The PC can be on all day, browsing the web, playing vids & music and it'll be 100% fine. Playing BF3, it can be temperamental. Twice in the last 2 weeks, the PC has rebooted in the middle of playing BF3 and I think it's down to the overclock on my board being at 4.4ghz, VCORE is at 1.3 ish -/+0.2-3.
Errors is as follows:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger
Date: 17/04/2013 17:57:18
Event ID: 18
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
Description:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor ID: 4
The reason the overclock is at 4.4ghz is to remove the bottleneck for the fact I have 2 GTX660's in SLI, giving me a respectable FPS in most games, BF3 is 70+.
Would I be correct in thinking that it's now about time I upgraded to a 3770k as intended? Would reducing the O/C to 4ghz & VCORE to stock be worth trying first? I have reason to believe my motherboard is struggling to keep up, hence the issues here.
I was thinking about the 3820, but not sure I would use it as it was designed and it's expensive for what it is.
Any help would be ideal, thanks.