Stabilizing the 955 be

[slong]

im overclocked atm at 3.7 at 1.41 volts... it runs the prim95 for a while but eventually fails.. my temps max out at 55-56C... i was wondering what other volts could i change to help stabilize and reduce temp at the same time.... idk why im having such a hard time getting long term stability..

 

[AsAnAtheist]

Well I wouldn't recommend upping the voltage anymore with those temperatures. What you can try to do is lower the multiplier by a little, then up the FSB. The temperatures should remain near the same, maybe a tad bit higher.

 

[slong]

i go with 206x18 i believe to hit 3.7 might be 206x17 but either way its stabile for a while but eventually fails after a few days of being on 24/7 lol... and i got it now at 3.7 at 1.38 volts i believe so whats yall recommend to hit 3.8-3.9? my temps peak at 47C

 

[Hags]

i go with 206x18 i believe to hit 3.7 might be 206x17 but either way its stabile for a while but eventually fails after a few days of being on 24/7 lol... and i got it now at 3.7 at 1.38 volts i believe so whats yall recommend to hit 3.8-3.9? my temps peak at 47C

Slong what are you using to stress test your OC to see if its stable?

 

[slong]

prime95 and so far iv gotten 3.9 stable at 1.48 volts with everything but burning movies with nero, it'll burn cds though : / lol but i can burn movies at 3.7 fine.. 3.8 it crashes about half way on the burn... still messing with it though other then that my games run perfect which what i care about

 

[Hags]

what test are you using on prime ? Blend gives the north bridge (Ram) its hardest work out past 2 hour mark at the 512k test so should test for 3 hour for stability.. So I have been told.. Good luck

 

[slickncghia]

best stability testing program is linx (linpak) 20 runs. its much faster (dosent take 24hours or whatever) takes <1hour.

and it will work your system harder than prime ever will.

prime is still good though. i use it for temp testing

 

[lashton]

dont beleieve what asanathiest says as long as temps stay under 62 under load increase the voltage, but MAKE sure your temps stay under 62

 

[Hags]

best stability testing program is linx (linpak) 20 runs. its much faster (dosent take 24hours or whatever) takes <1hour.

and it will work your system harder than prime ever will.

prime is still good though. i use it for temp testing

ran linpak pass 20 minutes of prime blend fail so I must disagree

 

[slong]

well this is strange i got everything stable at 3.82 at 1.48 volts.. ima start lowering volts till i get unstability to get the lowest volts+temps possible for 3.8... only program that crashes is nero when buring a dvd but a cd its fine.. i just use the windows7 burning software that comes built it and it doesnt crash at all lol odd but oh well.

 

[virus015]

well this is strange i got everything stable at 3.82 at 1.48 volts.. ima start lowering volts till i get unstability to get the lowest volts+temps possible for 3.8... only program that crashes is nero when buring a dvd but a cd its fine.. i just use the windows7 burning software that comes built it and it doesnt crash at all lol odd but oh well.

I have encountered that strange situation before as well. My CPU will be stable under 8 hours of prime 95 blend, will run perfectly stable in some games but crash in others. It even sometimes crashes when streaming videos from youtube, which isn't really a resource demanding task 😛 I lowered by clocks and it seems to have subsided a bit though.