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I recently tried to overclock my rig in my signature, and during a prime95 test my system hung. It scared me so I immediately hard restarted it (during which time it turned off and on 3 times before showing the boot screen), went into the BOIS and changed all the settings back to default. Is this kind of behaviour normal? I understand that my clock wasn't stable and something was going to happen, but I was expecting a blue screen, not a hang then multiple restarts. Should I brave on or am I risking damage to my CPU? 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 @ Stock, CPU cooler: Dark Rock 4, Motherboard: MSI B450M PRO-M2 MAX, RAM: 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 @ 3000Mhz, GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ACX 3.0, SSD: Crucial P1 1TB M.2 + 2x120GB SSDs, Case: Corsair 110R, PSU: Corsair TX650M, OS: Windows 10 64-bit.

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I recently tried to overclock my rig in my signature, and during a prime95 test my system hung. It scared me so I immediately hard restarted it (during which time it turned off and on 3 times before showing the boot screen), went into the BOIS and changed all the settings back to default. Is this kind of behaviour normal? I understand that my clock wasn't stable and something was going to happen, but I was expecting a blue screen, not a hang then multiple restarts. Should I brave on or am I risking damage to my CPU? 

 

I highly doubt you damaged anything. It seems like it was just unstable. I've had my computer freeze before (but not restart 3 times) and it's still fine. I say brave on. Just make sure you're getting acceptable temps. 

Desktop: The Bluez | CPU: i5-3570k @ 4.5 ghz 1.296V | CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: P8Z77 M-Pro | Memory: 16 GB 1600Mhz Kingston HyperX  


GPU: Asus GTX 780ti DirectCu II | HDD: Some Random Hitachi 1TB, WD Blue 1TB, 850 EVO 500GB | PSU: Rosewill Hive 750W | Case: Enermax Ostrog GT (Blue Ver.) 


Laptop: Razer Blade 14 2013 256GB

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I highly doubt you damaged anything. It seems like it was just unstable. I've had my computer freeze before (but not restart 3 times) and it's still fine. I say brave on. Just make sure you're getting acceptable temps. 

 

It was more the restarting that got to me than the hang. My temps were more than fine.

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 @ Stock, CPU cooler: Dark Rock 4, Motherboard: MSI B450M PRO-M2 MAX, RAM: 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 @ 3000Mhz, GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ACX 3.0, SSD: Crucial P1 1TB M.2 + 2x120GB SSDs, Case: Corsair 110R, PSU: Corsair TX650M, OS: Windows 10 64-bit.

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It was more the restarting that got to me than the hang. My temps were more than fine.

 

When hard restarting, I've had my computer do a few self restarts so I'm pretty sure its fine. 

Desktop: The Bluez | CPU: i5-3570k @ 4.5 ghz 1.296V | CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: P8Z77 M-Pro | Memory: 16 GB 1600Mhz Kingston HyperX  


GPU: Asus GTX 780ti DirectCu II | HDD: Some Random Hitachi 1TB, WD Blue 1TB, 850 EVO 500GB | PSU: Rosewill Hive 750W | Case: Enermax Ostrog GT (Blue Ver.) 


Laptop: Razer Blade 14 2013 256GB

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