Random Freezing

krome_ninja_ said:
Just had a crash sadly after running a 4.4Ghz OC for over a week. System was just being used for light media use.
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Yeah but we have progressed from that now. To get a more reliable measurement, download prime95 and do test #2 in-place FFT (max heat, max power). It should report a hardware failure on 1-2 threads after X minutes. And that is the measurement / rate of occurence to record as a control.

So you should be doing that now (and perhaps on a heavier OC setting). That is to say before getting the next intel microcode update. So that you have a solid reference point. Then re-do the same test again (with same OC setting) after microcode update.

Its all very well just me doing it. But that won't provide any independant confirmation / that results are valid. So we benefit more if other people are also participating too.
 
dreamcat4 said:
Yeah but we have progressed from that now. To get a more reliable measurement, download prime95 and do test #2 in-place FFT (max heat, max power). It should report a hardware failure on 1-2 threads after X minutes. And that is the measurement / rate of occurence to record as a control.

So you should be doing that now (and perhaps on a heavier OC setting). That is to say before getting the next intel microcode update. So that you have a solid reference point. Then re-do the same test again (with same OC setting) after microcode update.

Its all very well just me doing it. But that won't provide any independant confirmation / that results are valid. So we benefit more if other people are also participating too.
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Have been running Prime95 for just under two hours with your settings above and have had no crashes so far. I should mention that this test was ran on the same overclock as i have been running for the past week.

Test 1 = (FTT / Max Heat + Max Power for 1hr 50) 4.4GHz @ 1.3V - Pass - http://postimg.org/image/8h2436p6z/

Will run this test on other overclocks and see the result, but was expecting a crash from the run.
 
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After the Prime95 / Intel microcode fix, I am now testing 4.6 GHz, graduall decreasing the voltage each week. Started at 1.40v, then reduced to 1.37v. No freezing after 9 days so have reduced to 1.35v. It has been running for 2 days so far no crashes.

The only downside seems to be my idle temps are a lot higher now than previously. At 1.2v the temp was about 24^c. Now it is 54^c.
 
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