System in sig.
I tested it quite thoroughly, many hours each of memtest, dual-prime95, and orthos. All went without a hitch. Lately, however, it's started freezing up, and I'm not sure why.
Even lowering FSB to 400MHz (so the RAM wasn't even overclocked) nothing changed.
Gradually it got worse, from a freeze only once in a blue moon, to the point now where it can't even get into Windows, and freezes during memtest at the start of test #7. Not errors, a freeze-up.
I've reset everything to stock (except for RAM - voltage and timings to the spec 2.1V, 4-4-4-12, 1:1 ratio instead of the crap SPD settings) and started memtesting again. It made it through a pass so far, so it's probably fine. Also tried stock FSB with RAM at 3:2 (for its rated 800MHz) - also passed a pass of memtest. Everything seems to run fine as long as the CPU is not overclocked.
Haven't tried out a milder OC, like 333FSB, yet, but will at some point.
So, did my CPU run out of mojo? I don't see how I could have fried it, vCore was set to 1.3, and I tried adding a little more up to 1.325 (to no effect) when the freeze-ups started happening more frequently. Temps, as measured by CoreTemp, rarely broke 50C during stress testing, and never above 45 under normal use. I think my all-time high was, with the room very warm, and TAT running 100% stress on both cores, 59C.
Any idea what the problem could be?Could it be something to do with my PSU? A while after buying it, I heard it has more "ripple" than is desirable. But this PSU has only been in the system for about 2 months, and it's not on anywhere near 24/7.
I tested it quite thoroughly, many hours each of memtest, dual-prime95, and orthos. All went without a hitch. Lately, however, it's started freezing up, and I'm not sure why.
Even lowering FSB to 400MHz (so the RAM wasn't even overclocked) nothing changed.
Gradually it got worse, from a freeze only once in a blue moon, to the point now where it can't even get into Windows, and freezes during memtest at the start of test #7. Not errors, a freeze-up.
I've reset everything to stock (except for RAM - voltage and timings to the spec 2.1V, 4-4-4-12, 1:1 ratio instead of the crap SPD settings) and started memtesting again. It made it through a pass so far, so it's probably fine. Also tried stock FSB with RAM at 3:2 (for its rated 800MHz) - also passed a pass of memtest. Everything seems to run fine as long as the CPU is not overclocked.
Haven't tried out a milder OC, like 333FSB, yet, but will at some point.
So, did my CPU run out of mojo? I don't see how I could have fried it, vCore was set to 1.3, and I tried adding a little more up to 1.325 (to no effect) when the freeze-ups started happening more frequently. Temps, as measured by CoreTemp, rarely broke 50C during stress testing, and never above 45 under normal use. I think my all-time high was, with the room very warm, and TAT running 100% stress on both cores, 59C.
Any idea what the problem could be?Could it be something to do with my PSU? A while after buying it, I heard it has more "ripple" than is desirable. But this PSU has only been in the system for about 2 months, and it's not on anywhere near 24/7.