Yea, so I overclocked my system from FSB 133 to 145... i7 860, 4 gigs of ram, intel mobo, radeon 5850
I had heard from a supposedly knowledgable friend that overclocking would not affect temperature and stability much if only I didn't increase voltage. I was perhaps stupid in just going ahead and clocking it.
Now, it seems to have worked well so far but today it crashed. I had a feeling it might be temps since it was hot in my room and since it just closed down instantly only to reboot by itself a couple of seconds after.
So I monitored temps and my cores reached close to 80 C right after a gaming session. I figured this was quite a lot. Then, I monitored temps whilst running prime95 (the max heat test) and it actually reached 90 C. Then, the multiplier started adjusting, so did the fanspeed, and I figured that it would do that to protect itself. Also, I actually got a blue error screen two times during testing! So it didn't just shut down like the first time, but blue screens could be from overheating too, I guess?
So now I started thinking that maybe it was stupid of me to overclock this machine with a stock cooler. I just heard they were getting really good and people had an easy time overclocking i7s, but at the same time I probably don't have the knowledge I need to overclock safely. I didn't increase voltage at all though.
Now I've put it back to normal clocks again. Seems stable as of right now, but I'm just sooo nervous that I might've caused damage to the cpu by being a bold idiot
Now, even though I'm obviously being stupid about this, I hope you will help me with a couple of questions about all this:
1. Does a computer suddenly just shutting down then rebooting a couple of seconds after signify a problem with the processor? If so, it is a reasonable conclusion that the cause is overheating? Same goes for the blue screen...
2. With prime95, I still reach a max of 88 degrees (I think just one core, generally cores were 85-87). As I'm typing now, temps are just above 50 C... and it's hot in the room. Is this ok when you consider it's only this high with prime95? When I'm gaming, it doesn't come close. I think it's more like 70 C but I'll have to do further testing. Also, the multiplier doesn't jump up and down like when it was overclocking when running prime95.
3. This is the biggie. As said, the computer seems to run without a problem now, so do you think I have avoided doing damage to my cpu as long as I keep it at stock speeds? I just hope so bad that it's not going to go down on me tomorrow or perform worse from now on or whatever since I overclocked it and it reached those high temps. Am I good you think?
Thanks a lot for any answers. I definitely won't be overclocking my cpu anytime soon again, I just hope I haven't caused permanent damage or something((
I had heard from a supposedly knowledgable friend that overclocking would not affect temperature and stability much if only I didn't increase voltage. I was perhaps stupid in just going ahead and clocking it.
Now, it seems to have worked well so far but today it crashed. I had a feeling it might be temps since it was hot in my room and since it just closed down instantly only to reboot by itself a couple of seconds after.
So I monitored temps and my cores reached close to 80 C right after a gaming session. I figured this was quite a lot. Then, I monitored temps whilst running prime95 (the max heat test) and it actually reached 90 C. Then, the multiplier started adjusting, so did the fanspeed, and I figured that it would do that to protect itself. Also, I actually got a blue error screen two times during testing! So it didn't just shut down like the first time, but blue screens could be from overheating too, I guess?
So now I started thinking that maybe it was stupid of me to overclock this machine with a stock cooler. I just heard they were getting really good and people had an easy time overclocking i7s, but at the same time I probably don't have the knowledge I need to overclock safely. I didn't increase voltage at all though.
Now I've put it back to normal clocks again. Seems stable as of right now, but I'm just sooo nervous that I might've caused damage to the cpu by being a bold idiot
Now, even though I'm obviously being stupid about this, I hope you will help me with a couple of questions about all this:
1. Does a computer suddenly just shutting down then rebooting a couple of seconds after signify a problem with the processor? If so, it is a reasonable conclusion that the cause is overheating? Same goes for the blue screen...
2. With prime95, I still reach a max of 88 degrees (I think just one core, generally cores were 85-87). As I'm typing now, temps are just above 50 C... and it's hot in the room. Is this ok when you consider it's only this high with prime95? When I'm gaming, it doesn't come close. I think it's more like 70 C but I'll have to do further testing. Also, the multiplier doesn't jump up and down like when it was overclocking when running prime95.
3. This is the biggie. As said, the computer seems to run without a problem now, so do you think I have avoided doing damage to my cpu as long as I keep it at stock speeds? I just hope so bad that it's not going to go down on me tomorrow or perform worse from now on or whatever since I overclocked it and it reached those high temps. Am I good you think?
Thanks a lot for any answers. I definitely won't be overclocking my cpu anytime soon again, I just hope I haven't caused permanent damage or something
((
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