WHEA errors on ivy tips or advice?

[Rofflay]

Well me and my big mouth as i just had one after 3 days at 4800 cpu 2400 memory

Processor clock WHEA popped up as ive assigned it to a task to alert me and well yea not sure really if its the CPU/IMC.

Ive backed down to 4700mhz 1.37V as the temps are too hot under IBT anyways and well i guess im after feedback on how the rest of you sorted the WHEA errors?

I cant decide if i should focus on the cpu or the memory to be honest.I know that my cpu wall is either x49 or x50 as x50 just wont boot no matter what voltage and ive not tested x49.x48 used to be quite fickle and ive had full system restarts on that multi until i tuned LLC to stop the vdroop and it played games and primed for a few days until one WHEA popped up.

One thing i will say and it may sound silly but i dont even think i have the temperature threshold to bump IMC volts to 1.1.I am just using the bios auto which reads 1.068 roughly which might be just too low for 2400 DDR3 at 1T.

So yea CPU core voltage or IMC which should i focus on? It takes a while to get WHEA errors so any experience would speed me along greatly.

 

[illuz]

CPU voltage increase is how you get rid of WHEA errors, means your just shy of being stable!

 

[Rofflay]

Yea but it was very fickle, at one point it would not even boot and i had a long read of a guide by i think Asus engineers who went through how to spot multiwall and get it running.

Im sure i probably can get it stable but ive since been thinking that not only do my temps under IBT suck 90-94c under IBT and the fact there are a few WHEA's popping up every now and again i should just cut my losses and get 4700 working with that sexy ram speed.


Its that or bump IMC/Vcore to maybe 1.375 from 1.368.Im pretty confident though i will hit 96C under IBT on that.Although 8Pack says IBT should not even be used anyways as it can degrade so again im confused.

It feels really greedy to bump more Vcore and go by prime95 temps to be honest.Would a game ever exceed Prime95 temps? To be fair it stays around 82c under prime but you can tell that the TDP is only around 66W versus IBT running it maxed out at 77W.

 

[illuz]

Never, my temps in game barely go over 60, P95 they hit 77. Just bump the voltage up a tad and drop the RAM speed. What's your RAM at atm and what RAM is it?

 

[setter]

Upping vcore a few notches helped eliminate whea errors for me too. At 3.5ghz, 1.3100 vcore, the system was passing ibt etc, but freezing in games. Upon checking the event viewer sure enough there were whea errors showing up that corresponded to the game crashes. Stuck vcore to 1.3200 and all was good once more. Temp wise, in ibt my max temp is 75c, in games it's 64c.

 

[Rofflay]

Never, my temps in game barely go over 60, P95 they hit 77. Just bump the voltage up a tad and drop the RAM speed. What's your RAM at atm and what RAM is it?

The ram is http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-133-KS&groupid=701&catid=8

Im running it at XMP with two settings changed to 1T 2400mhz with default bios imc volts of around 1.059v.

As i said ive not had any lockup since i started eliminating vdroop in favour of a slight vrise and its worked apart from that WHEA error.

To be fair its pretty damm good that the ram has not bsod yet, default volts of 1.6V 11-12-11-30

 

[wazza300]

these a range of whea error/warnings some are memory and some are cpu plus other things,it will say mem or proc

just need more cpu voltage if its cpu parity error

 

[illuz]

Try dropping it to 2200 and bumping the volts up on cpu a tiny tiny bit. That should eliminate stress causing the WHEA errors

 

[vonex]

you need a flux capacitor!!

 

[HankScorpio]

WHEA errors don't ALWAYS mean unstable OC. I've been rocking my 4.6 OC on 100% for a year now(I fold all day) and it's never crashed. But when I burn a dvd and turn folding off I get about 20 alerts for them. (I've got an event manager alert prompt for them)

 

[wazza300]

no it doesn't,it depends on what type of whea error you get

if its processor related chances are it will crash at some point

 

[Rofflay]

Yea it seems it is the large spikes from sometimes exiting a program.I saw nothing in 3 days about WHEA and i know as when a WHEA processor alert happens it will popup on my screen with my own message i inserted.


I exited chivalry after 3 hours one day and bam WHEA processor clock.I think it just means its on the cliff edge of stability but just not enough to cause a bluescreen or game crash.It may not crash now as hankscorpio said but chances are in a year or so it might just start to BSOD or corrupt data.I have a raid 0 system so im not too fond of WHEA messing up my Raid 0 data.


At least i know now there are memory and processor clock WHEA.None of the memory errors have came up so i will just keep the ram where it is and downclock by 100mhz and see if WHEA goes away.