Overclocking problems

blakslee720 · July 21, 2015

Hey everyone,

So recently I started to actually try and OC my cpu. Got it to run 4.5ghz at 1.25 volts (manual) for over 12 hours on Aida64 extreme without crashing. A few days later I let it run Folding@home overnight only to wake up and see my computer had crashed. Not sure what happened but the screen was black, fans were running fast and it was unresponsive to mouse/keys. It also started to crash during games even on stock GPU settings.

Any advice on why this would be happening?

System specs

http://pcpartpicker.com/b/rrnnTW

SImoHayha · July 21, 2015

Stress testing only helps in most cases and helps find out a few things. If you want to stress test just basically do normal things that you would for a few hours. I know this because when I OC'ed my CPU it passed the stress test however failed opening a youtube video and crashing when both a youtube vid is up and an emulator is playing. Maybe reset the CMOS and see if that helps

Manswaggle · July 21, 2015

If you're running 4.5 at 1.25v, maybe bump it up just a hair and see how that gets you. From what I see of your "OC 3DMark" on PCP, your video card isn't OC'd, which if it was, could cause problems if the CPU is OC'd(sometimes).

This happened to my 2600k last week. Figure the "default" voltage for the auto-OC wasn't high enough and needed a jump to +.80 or so. Although that did kill my temperatures a bit.