Was stable, now not!

HEADRAT · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:28

Hi,

For the longest time I was running my Q6600 as below:-

8 hours prime stable at 9 x 380 (3420).

Things now have become unstable and Prime fails pretty quickly, I'm just doing a Memtest86 on my RAM as so far no errors, should I suspect my CPU?

Cheers

HEADRAT

esK` · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:29

could try upping the volts a little bit what are they currently at?

Phatzy · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:30

back the O.C down abit and try again

HEADRAT · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:34

Currently using 1.38 (real), tried backing down the OC but I'm really struggling to get anything stable!

esK` · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:34

under air or water ?

HEADRAT · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:38

Tuniq Tower 120

esK` · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:41

you could try upping the volts to 1.45 in the bios see how that goes ?

what ram do you have? could try pumping some more volts into that?

HEADRAT · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:43

Crucial Ballistix @ 2.3, currently running Memtest and 50% through with 0 errors.

esK` · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:27

put the cpu volts to 1.45 and see if that stables it

IAmATeaf · 27 Sep 2008 at 16:10

What mobo is it? I had something similar with my previous P965-DS3P mobo, rock solid for months and then it started crashing and failing prime. I used to have Ballistix RAM which I ran at 1.8v and upping that to 1.9v and upping the NB voltage a notch fixed my problems.

Cob · 27 Sep 2008 at 16:11

HEADRAT said:
Crucial Ballistix @ 2.3, currently running Memtest and 50% through with 0 errors.

I'd lay money on that being your problem.

Kelt · 27 Sep 2008 at 16:43

HEADRAT said:
Crucial Ballistix @ 2.3, currently running Memtest and 50% through with 0 errors.

Wow, that's a lot of volts! What speed are you running at?

Currently running mine at only 800Mhz with just 1.9V. On my old MSI P35 Neo, used to run them at 1000Mhz with 2.0V., and could run at 1200Mhz with 2.1V.