Application specific instability when OCing?

[xCxStylex]

Precursor: I no longer play dota (play HoN and LoL now), so I dont' really care about resolving the issue, I'm just interested in why it happeneed.


Ocing my CPU caused me to excessively blue screen when playing Warcraft 3 on windows xp. In an 8 hour session of playing, it would crash 1-3 times on me, and since you can't rejoin a game of DOTA when crashed, you're SOL :/ Best I could safely OC my CPU was to 3.2GHZ without blue screening.

I've never had problems blue screening with ANY other game though, even with a much higher overlock. Now that I don't play dota anymore, I'm back up to 3.6 GHZ with no issues in any game, even modern, more demanding ones.

Basically, I've never had any problems with anything except warcraft 3. Are some programs just... that much more sensitive?

 

[TJCS]

I hate to break it to you, but what this all boils down to is that you have an unstable OC or faulty hardware/drivers.

BSODs happens due to the following reasons:
1. Your Hardware is malfunctioning, overheating, faulty, or it's about to fail
2. Your driver is causing your hardware to malfunction
3. Your bios settings is causing your hardware to malfunction

Usually, if a game is the cause of a crash problem, it should only crash its own program, not BSOD your PC (you should still be able to use alt-tab or the task manager to end task).

 

[ShawnD1]

For starters, lower your RAM multiplier so it's running at or slightly below stock speed. Memory is a bitch to stress test so leave that part to the very end.

For CPU stress testing, get a copy of Prime95. Run the Small FFT test. If your CPU is unstable, this test will tell you. If you go into task manager and set this test to low priority, you won't even notice it running

Once you have all that worked out and the CPU is stable, run the Blend test to check memory stability. IMO, it's easiest to just keep the memory at stock speed since it takes a very long time to check it and even then it's kinda sketchy. The CPU, imo, is a lot more clear cut and either passes or fails in a short period of time.