Stress test programs freeze?

aBagofRockss · August 16, 2016

So long story short, I've had my I5 6600k overclocked for several weeks now to 4.2ghz @1.235vcore. I decided that I wanted to start pushing it a bit more, so I bumped it up to 4.3 and restarted. Everything worked fine, including stress tests. However, for some reason, the programs I use to monitor my temps when stress testing keep freezing. Thinking that it was unstable, I tried opening other programs such as chrome while I had a test running, and they worked fine. Could this be a sign of an unstable overclock, or a problem with the programs themselves? I'm using NZXT Cam and HWMonitor.

YedZed · August 16, 2016

NZXT CAM is still buggy, so don't trust it too much.

aBagofRockss · August 16, 2016

13 minutes ago, YedZed said:

NZXT CAM is still buggy, so don't trust it too much.

I've heard that before. However, it's with HWmonitor as well, but it's kind of inconsistent. As in, it will freeze up for a few seconds and then unfreeze.

Edit: Seems like it is with other temp monitoring programs as well.