CPU problem

[SlienceRain]

Hey.guys

I have a question,

I have a AMD X4 860K as my cpu, and its oc to 4.30GHZ but for some reason it doesn't us all the speed it only use 4.21Ghz.

I'm not sure why is that happening, also my PC self restarts sometimes, its bugging me a lot. 

[JoePro87]

2 minutes ago, SlienceRain said:

Hey.guys

I have a question,

I have a AMD X4 860K as my cpu, and its oc to 4.30GHZ but for some reason it doesn't us all the speed it only use 4.21Ghz.

I'm not sure why is that happening, also my PC self restarts sometimes, its bugging me a lot. 

Sounds to me like you're pushing it too hard. Maybe back down on the OC?

[SlienceRain]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

Sounds to me like you're pushing it too hard. Maybe back down on the OC?

i did do that and set it to 4.20 Ghz and it only use 4.12Ghz of it

[SlienceRain]

3 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Sounds to me like you're pushing it too hard. Maybe back down on the OC?

and the base clock is 3.70Ghz

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, SlienceRain said:

and the base clock is 3.70Ghz

Obviously it's having trouble pushing 4.2Ghz or above. Why not set it to 4.1Ghz, and see how that does for you? I can assure you that, in this day and age, 100Mhz difference on your CPU is going to make NO noticeable difference in performance. Slow it down, and it will run more stable.

[SlienceRain]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

Obviously it's having trouble pushing 4.2Ghz or above. Why not set it to 4.1Ghz, and see how that does for you? I can assure you that, in this day and age, 100Mhz difference on your CPU is going to make NO noticeable difference in performance. Slow it down, and it will run more stable.

cool i'll have a try

[SlienceRain]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

Obviously it's having trouble pushing 4.2Ghz or above. Why not set it to 4.1Ghz, and see how that does for you? I can assure you that, in this day and age, 100Mhz difference on your CPU is going to make NO noticeable difference in performance. Slow it down, and it will run more stable.

and do you know why is my PC keep self restarting once awhile

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, SlienceRain said:

and do you know why is my PC keep self restarting once awhile

Yes, because you're pushing the CPU past what it can handle, and it is causing it to have fatal errors. When you're overclocking, if your computer locks up, that means you're pushing it too hard, and you need to back it off. Back it down to 4.1Ghz as I said, then run a stability test on it. If it passes the test, you're golden. If it doesn't, then push it down to 4.0Ghz.

[SlienceRain]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

Yes, because you're pushing the CPU past what it can handle, and it is causing it to have fatal errors. When you're overclocking, if your computer locks up, that means you're pushing it too hard, and you need to back it off. Back it down to 4.1Ghz as I said, then run a stability test on it. If it passes the test, you're golden. If it doesn't, then push it down to 4.0Ghz.

cool thanks