Why am I overheating? Overclock failed?

[frankthetank195]

All using exact main/gaming rig in signature.

Usually while playing games, but sometimes just while browsing the interwebs and such, my computer will freeze, make a loud buzzing noise, and then reboot. I've deduced that this is a cpu overheat, from watching temps and correlations. How can this be happening with a water cooler, even a cheapish one?

Also, sometimes when I boot up, I get an American Megatrends (or whatever) screen telling me "Overclocking failed!" I promise I havent touched multipliers or voltages (though I wish I could), so I don't know where this is coming from.

Please help! Its annoying and honestly quite worrisome.

 

[Vectronic]

The H60 doesn't do much better than stock HSF, it's basically designed as a quieter version of a stock HSF.

It's probably overheating because:
1. The fans aren't running at full speed when under load.
2. The pump is malfunctioning, or you got air in the loop somehow.
3. Your case isn't getting enough cool air.
4. Your ambient temperature is too high for the cooler.

It's possible that if the AMI BIOS is saying that, it's trying to apply an overclock, or otherwise incorrect settings to your CPU. Some of these settings might be applied while others aren't... it might be at default clocks, but overvolted. It might also be using the wrong FBS/MLT combination to get the same clock... such as 340 x 10... increasing temperatures.

Why can't you touch multipliers and voltages?... It's an unlocked CPU on an overclocking board

 

[frankthetank195]

I don't want to because it keeps crashing.

I just found out that it's not an overheat. It crashed while my CPU was around 35 celcius and GPUs at about 60 celcius. The pump's curve had freaked out and turned it off, so that fixed that problem of the CPU. Now I'm really scared that somethings truly broken.

Also, my pc sits next to a window, which I open when I'm stressing it. Id say it's about 40/50 farenheit ambient in here when it just crashed (1:00AM).

 

[Macgruber]

I wish i could help you D:< seems i run PC for 2 days, turn off, and from cold boot have massive restarts and i get that screen too saying my OC settings have failed..

good luck man

 

[jiffylube1024]

Some tips to help with the crashing:

-make sure the Motherboard has the latest BIOS
-check the RAM voltage in the BIOS. Your RAM should be rated at 1.5V. Check in the voltages page what your actual RAM voltage is. Try giving the RAM 1.55V, or running with just 1 stick of DDR3. I had a faulty stick of G.Skill DDR3 last year and had to RMA it.
-Try running the RAM at 2T command rate rather than 1T command rate (lower command rate is easier on the memory)

 

[frankthetank195]

Is the RAM what's crashing it? How would I know?

 

[Vectronic]

The types of errors/BSOD you get will tell you. (Windows 8 sucks for this).

For me, if my PC just shuts off/restarts, no error, no BSOD... it's a RAM issue.

BSOD/Application Error... CPU issue.

Freezes... it's a PLL/VTT/PCI-E issue.

You could test your RAM... Memtest86+, HCI Memtest... takes awhile.

(lunch break, that's as descriptive as I have time for)

 

[frankthetank195]

The types of errors/BSOD you get will tell you. (Windows 8 sucks for this).

For me, if my PC just shuts off/restarts, no error, no BSOD... it's a RAM issue.

BSOD/Application Error... CPU issue.

Freezes... it's a PLL/VTT/PCI-E issue.

You could test your RAM... Memtest86+, HCI Memtest... takes awhile.

(lunch break, that's as descriptive as I have time for)

Thats perfect, thanks. Ill run memtest over night tonight, then tomorrow I think I'm going to try a manual OC to ohhh 3.7 GHz for now.