overclocking

[DominicNikon]

i ran  a stress test on my gtx 760 for 35mins stable with a overclock then load bf4 and it instantly crashes. do games stress more then stress testers?

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[othertomperson]

It varies. You're going to have to play a variety of games to know for sure if you're stable.

[DominicNikon]

It varies. You're going to have to play a variety of games to know for sure if you're stable.

its stable on minecraft 

[Daveeede]

Overclocking is tricky. I for one was stable in all stress testers but would crash during one particular cut scene in one game. You either have to suck it up or lower your clock. 

[W-L]

i ran  a stress test on my gtx 760 for 35mins stable with a overclock then load bf4 and it instantly crashes. do games stress more then stress testers?

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That can happen sometimes, you can stress test for hours on end and not have a fail but once you do a real world load on it it can fail. The stress testing isn't the exact same as a real world load so a combination of both is always a good way to test overclocking.

[SPG]

its stable on minecraft 

minecraft isnt really a viable method of bench marking an over clock...

[othertomperson]

That can happen sometimes, you can stress test for hours on end and not have a fail but once you do a real world load on it it can fail. The stress testing isn't the exact same as a real world load so a combination of both is always a good way to test overclocking.

 

Same goes for the CPU too. You can leave a stress test running all night and all day while you're at work as well without issue and then blue screen the first time you try to watch something on YouTube. These things happen and ultimately actually using for PC for some amount of time is the only way of really knowing.

[W-L]

Same goes for the CPU too. You can leave a stress test running all night and all day while you're at work as well without issue and then blue screen the first time you try to watch something on YouTube. These things happen and ultimately actually using for PC for some amount of time is the only way of really knowing.

 

Had that happen on mine actually, I stress tested mt overclock for 12 hours but during games it would sometimes freeze but not bluescreen, I have to up the voltage a little to remedy that. 

[othertomperson]

Had that happen on mine actually, I stress tested mt overclock for 12 hours but during games it would sometimes freeze but not bluescreen, I have to up the voltage a little to remedy that. 

 

Yeah. I tend to just use long stress tests to see how hot it gets after a long time -- especially in summer. I just use 30 minute tests to judge stability because longer than that doesn't really tell me anything. If it's going to crash it'll do it in standard use anyway.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Same goes for the CPU too. You can leave a stress test running all night and all day while you're at work as well without issue and then blue screen the first time you try to watch something on YouTube. These things happen and ultimately actually using for PC for some amount of time is the only way of really knowing.

The machine before my current one, i7+GPU/Renderer OC stable in 100% load and gaming and video work,..., yet at idle would carry on at selective random times.

Lived with it for a while, got this machine for extended PC time and use that one for a video editing machine (backing off clocks a teenie tiny tad helped it later on)

[othertomperson]

The machine before my current one, i7+GPU/Renderer OC stable in 100% load and gaming and video work,..., yet at idle would carry on at selective random times.

Lived with it for a while, got this machine for extended PC time and use that one for a video editing machine (backing off clocks a teenie tiny tad helped it later on)

 

Makes it almost sound like a problem with Speed Step. If the voltage is high enough under load but suddenly not at idle, it implies that SpeedStep isn't keeping the idle voltage and frequencies synchronised effectively