Is this OC safe?

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I'm running 250x10. I accidently scratched off a bit of thermal grease when I was installing the heatsink. VCore is about 1.495, something like that. I ran Prime95 overnight yesterday for ~6 hours, but when I came to check on it this morning, I found out that Windows had restarted itself. It might have been because I was installing Windows updates, and it wanted to restart... MBM5 reports temps at ~38C when the computer first boots up, and ~49C when running Prime95, Firefox, and Trillian. Should I increase the VCore? Or is it too high? What's the lowest I can get the VCore while still staying at this speed stably?

 

[blckgrffn]

Sounds like you are doing fine. If you get random reboots, that would be bad sign - how is your memory doing? You should try running memtest86 off of a floppy to see how it is doing.

Nat

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

My memory is at 208Mhz with 2.7V. It's Corsair VS, so I'm not going to OC it that much. 210 with 2.85V seemed to be the fastest it could go stably.

 

[evetstech]

reapply some as5 on the chip, bad idea touching the thermal grease, you gotta reapply it again now

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I didn't scratch off too much. Is 49C under load okay for a Venice? Prime95 has been running for ~3 hours this morning w/o any errors.

 

[blckgrffn]

Like I said, you are looking good. I idle at about 45 😉

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Alright, thanks 🙂