Guess I damaged my CPU?

[soccerballtux]

So I got greedy and wanted to cook/push this thing further. I figured I could see if it could go higher, and I wouldn't damage it too much.

So I pushed it to 1.54v in CPUz. Couldn't even get to 3.5Ghz. So I said screw it, I'll just keep it at 3.4Ghz and 1.47/8v in CPU-z.

Fast forward and now my UT3 is locking up sometimes.

Can anyone tell me if going to 1.54v for perhaps about 10 minutes total would be enough to start damaging it? These 65nms are rated for 1.5v. Didn't think going .04v higher would do this much.

I hope it's just the driver update I did on my nvidia card-- went to 177.92 from .82.
It's still Orthos small and large stable for at least 15 minutes.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
I hope it's just the driver update I did on my nvidia card-- went to 177.92 from .82.

That's most likely your problem.

 

[skillyho]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
So I got greedy and wanted to cook/push this thing further. I figured I could see if it could go higher, and I wouldn't damage it too much.

So I pushed it to 1.54v in CPUz. Couldn't even get to 3.5Ghz. So I said screw it, I'll just keep it at 3.4Ghz and 1.47/8v in CPU-z.

Fast forward and now my UT3 is locking up sometimes.

Can anyone tell me if going to 1.54v for perhaps about 10 minutes total would be enough to start damaging it? These 65nms are rated for 1.5v. Didn't think going .04v higher would do this much.

I hope it's just the driver update I did on my nvidia card-- went to 177.92 from .82.
It's still Orthos small and large stable for at least 15 minutes.

Is it only stable this long? Does it crash after 15 minutes?

 

[soccerballtux]

I left it going a while and it was stable, didn't crash at all.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Try OCCT, its much quicker.

& + 1 about the video card driver

 

[soccerballtux]

People said the same about Orthos wrt prime95
I'll go check it out

edit: it's not pushing my CPU past about 67. Orthos small will take me to 74 no problem. You sure about this? How long should I run it for?

 

[Tempered81]

if you overvolted and fried the cpu it won't power on. More than likely it's gpu driver, or the cpu requiring more volts for stability in that game than it used to at 3.4g.

 

[soccerballtux]

well it passed OCCT for an hour.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Try it on CPU instead of MIX. There are 3 modes, CPU, MIX, & RAM

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
I hope it's just the driver update I did on my nvidia card-- went to 177.92 from .82.
It's still Orthos small and large stable for at least 15 minutes.

Revert back to old drivers. Also, if your only stable for 15 minutes; your not stable. Usually stable would be 8+ hours. Only time 15 minutes applies is when Linpack is used cause that program is crazy when it some to stress testing.

 

[MyLeftNut]

I'm certain it's not CPU. Guys over at xtremesystems usually run their cpus at higher than 1.55v for their benches and if 65nm c2d's were to get damaged from a quick 10min of voltage then you'd hear about cpu's dying already. Incase you want to know, I'm running my E6400 at around the same voltage for like 2 years already. It's most likely a nvidia driver stability issue. Some of the newer drivers are known to crash and have stability issues.

Other possible causes may be insufficient mch voltage if you're running 4 sticks of ram with tighter timings.

 

[Gillbot]

Check your ram with memtest.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: MyLeftNut
I'm certain it's not CPU. Guys over at xtremesystems usually run their cpus at higher than 1.55v for their benches and if 65nm c2d's were to get damaged from a quick 10min of voltage then you'd hear about cpu's dying already. Incase you want to know, I'm running my E6400 at around the same voltage for like 2 years already. It's most likely a nvidia driver stability issue. Some of the newer drivers are known to crash and have stability issues.

Other possible causes may be insufficient mch voltage if you're running 4 sticks of ram with tighter timings.

Thanks.

After Orthos'ing fine for several 30m sessions (passing, stopped so I could get back to ut3) and that OCCT or whatever passing for an hour, I figured I might as well go ahead and move back the 177.83's and see if that helps. Haven't had a lockup yet.

What could Nvidia be changing that would do something like this?

 

[imported_Scoop]

Run orthos with atitool for about an hour and see if it locks up to simulate your gaming. If it does, you need more voltage.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

if it works with OCCT for over an hour thats equivalent to 10 hours of Prime testing.

its the nvidia drivers