[soilentblue]

I just installed a gtx 590 and i've been having memory dump messages from blue screens and i'm guessing it's because my oc isn't as stable as I thought it was. I've never overclocked my memory and since i've been trying all day today it seems to be really not liking it. Can someone me get a 24/7 stable clock on cpu and memory?

This is where I'm currently at with my cpu but my memory is back to auto since 6-8-6 didn't want to even boot up windows. i took a pict of what I had been trying to set my ram at incase i'm doing something wrong. volts for dram was 1.55

 

[soilentblue]

i dropped my vcore to 1.475 and it's idling at 34*

 

[Vipervlv]

Does it do the same at Stock? You should start from there.

 

[soilentblue]

i did start at stock and it's completely stable. i had it up to 4.1ghz for around 5 months but never had it really tested. just ran it once on OCCT for an hour and 30 min of prime. it was fine or so it seemed. Once I got the card in i have been getting instability so I dropped it to 4.0ghz and decided to tighten up the ram on it.

 

[Vipervlv]

I think you should start from scratch ... stock to up.

 

[soilentblue]

did you look at the images that i posted? is everything being overclocked correctly at least?

 

[xd_1771]

This happened only with the addition of a new video card?

 

[soilentblue]

Quote:

Originally Posted by xd_1771;13037848
This happened only with the addition of a new video card?

yeah I've mainly used the computer for AutoCad and surfing the net. Never tried to max out a game until I got the gtx 590 and my new dell 2711. Last night I tried crysis and it either froze or blue screen dumped, tried mafia 2 benchmark and it blue screen dumped, tried metro 2033 benchmark and it blue screen dumped. i can play games(mafia, dirt2, crysis) and it takes a little while(hour or so) but eventually dumps or freezes. all saying the same thing about dumping memory.

I originally left the ram(gskill eco 1600) completely alone and only overclocked the cpu and like I said I thought it was stable at 4.1ghz so I figured it had to be my memory needing to be tighter settings since the cpu was overclocked. never ran a memory benchmark before since I left it has always been left at stock.

i heard that pushing a graphics card can reveal an unstable overclock. I won't be home for about 5 more hours since i'm back at work but any suggestions are appreciated. I really don't even know if the two images of my bios are showing that i'm clocking the 955 correctly.

ran two different nvidia drivers on two seperate occasions and same effects. seems to be worse now.

 

[Razzal]

You should always test your oc with Prime95 to check for stability, i would run it at least 3 hours and if it makes it through with no issues you are probably good.

 

[soilentblue]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Razzal;13037983
You should always test your oc with Prime95 to check for stability, i would run it at least 3 hours and if it makes it through with no issues you are probably good.

i already know this. i'm trying to figure out how to overclock my memory correctly for the ram that I have to rule out having an unstable o/c. I'm also asking if someone sees anything with my cpu o/c that I should be doing differently

first pict is my overclock. second pict is what I tried to put my memory at but it wouldn't open up windows.

 

[soilentblue]

xd_1771 i see you posted this about the ecos to someone else
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RAM with the RAM shades!?
Also, it's not very hard at all.
Use around 1.5V DRAM voltage (you're safe up to 1.65V, nominally ECOs stop scaling with voltage at 1.6V)
The C2 revision processor (Phenom II x3) might make it a bit hard, you may need to add a bit more DRAM voltage than usual. You also may need to reduce your RAM speed a bit (i.e. from 1686 back to 1600) to reach 6-8-6. I haven't seen a single kit that doesn't reach 6-8-6 yet.

when i get home today i'll try 6-8-6-20-24-1t @1600 w/ dram volts @ 1.6v and see if that will get me to be able to load up windows. unless you suggest otherwise.

 

[xd_1771]

That should be around right.
The GTX 590 may be more intensive on the PCI-E interface and chipset northbridge due to being much more powerful and having to transmit much more data. Try raising the chipset (northbridge) voltage one notch, maybe two. See if it helps.

 

[soilentblue]

alright i'll give it a shot in about 40 minutes and report back what happens. thank you.

 

[soilentblue]

6-8-6-20-24-1t @1600 w/ dram volts @ 1.6v seems to be the right set. just ran OCCT for an hour to check my overclock on the cpu and i'll be running the memory test later today to make sure it's stable.