Windows stability in overclocking

[footman]

Are Windows stability issues in overclocking more likely to be cpu voltage related than any other?

 

[SiriusB]

Increasing voltage to the CPU can usually help make an overclock stable, however as you start to reach the limits of your CPU [or your temps get too high] then your CPU voltage has less of an impact on stability.

For example, when overclocking my CPU I found that while it booted into Windows at 2650MHz absolutely fine with the RAM on a high divider [making it pretty slow], Windows never made it past the black boot screen when I brought my RAM back up to ~200MHz. I couldn't push the Vcore any further because temps were high. In the end I had to settle with 2600MHz.

So basically, yes Vcore can have a big affect on stability, but it depends entirely on what is causing the instability.

SiriusB

 

[footman]

just discovered I was undervolting the memory....would that cause such instability?

 

[Stan_Lite]

It could do, most memory will become unstable at high frequencies and tight timings - upping the volts will certainly help up to a point

Stan