MrLinky

True, but even with crysis and GTA, ive noticed that my cpu rarely gets above 80% overall usage. I totally agree with everyone that being prime stable is important, but if he can keep his temps down, and run safe voltage for his oc, then i dont think his instability will ever cause issues in daily computing

Lord Xeb

Yep, rig is 24/7 stable with prime and passes 250 runs with ITB @ maximum.

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NoGuru

Ok well if he starts to lose data or his OS becomes corrupted, it will probably be a virus or something.

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admorris

Wow, I was gone like 20 mins. and had a load of responses...much appreciated. I'm running small fft's...usually can only get like 15-20 mins. before crashing (black screen then going to blue screen with some error codes, but too quick to get a screenshot). I'm new to this (if you haven't guessed already). I'm only running 3.6Ghz now (overnight on prime95 was stable at this speed) by upping the multiplier to 18. Anytime I make ANY adjustment to the multiplier by half or HT then pretty quick crash on small fft's. I have manually set the cpu voltage to 1.4125, as the auto setting seemed to run too hot. It seems as though I can only go to about 1.45 volts before my cpu runs too hot in Prime. I have seen where people are running on air close to 1.5v, but my cpu would fry in no time at that voltage. Not sure what the deal is there b/c I have great ventilation and relatively low idle temps (30c). I honestly think it's something simple that I am totally missing here. I'm an impatient noob...that just may be the biggest problem of them all

MrLinky

admorris, i can understand being frustrated at failed overclock after failed overclock. We all were new to computers and ocing at some point. There are a lot of knowldgeable people on ocn that would love to help you, all you need to do is start a "need help ocing" thread in the right area
What NoGuru says is possible, if you have an unstable cpu theres a small chance it could corrput data on your hdd...
Just an FYI, i wouldn't expect an oc over 4.2ghz with that cpu... amds are great, but the 955 usually tops out at 4ghz, and the 965 usually tops out at 4.2ghz.

admorris

Yea, frustrated is a GOOD word for it...haha. I'm definitely not new to computers, but 100% new to oc'ing...I think that is what is frustrating me. I honestly would be happy at 3.8-3.9Ghz...4 would be absolutely awesome. I know at some point (as with all things new) that I will look back at this and realize how easy it was...but I'm not at that point right now. I don't see how my chip would handle 4ghz with it getting so hot running at 3.8. Oh well, thanks everyone for all the responses, I really do appreciate it. I think I just need to grow some patience and go slooooow. I believe I am making too many changes at once instead of exhausting all options on one change at a time before moving on to another option.

NoGuru

You should make all your changes one at a time, and write them down.
This way you know what works and what doesn't.

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