X5650 Overclocking BSOD

[Guest]

Hey folks. 

Ive got my x5660 overclocked to 3.6ghz. Whenever I try raising that a bit more, it dies (presumably because it needs more voltage). However, that's the problem. When I raise voltage, I also get a BSOD. Iv just tried raising BCLK, and lowering my clock ratio (to give me 3.6ghz again), but it also BSODs then. Keep in mind this is with stock voltage. What could be the problem? 

[Liiioo]

Mybe you can't over clock it higher. You already have overclocked the boost clock by 400mhz.

How high did you raise the voltage?

[AdamBGames]

22 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Hey folks. 

Ive got my x5660 overclocked to 3.6ghz. Whenever I try raising that a bit more, it dies (presumably because it needs more voltage). However, that's the problem. When I raise voltage, I also get a BSOD. Iv just tried raising BCLK, and lowering my clock ratio (to give me 3.6ghz again), but it also BSODs then. Keep in mind this is with stock voltage. What could be the problem? 

Silicon lottery my friend, some chips just dont like to be overclocked more, sounds like you know what you are doing so im fairly sure its just that the chip doesnt want to go higher

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, Liiioo said:

Mybe you can't over clock it higher. You already have overclocked the boost clock by 400mhz.

How high did you raise the voltage?

Barely raised it. Think it was around 2.5-3v, to be safe. 

 

15 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

Silicon lottery my friend, some chips just dont like to be overclocked more, sounds like you know what you are doing so im fairly sure its just that the chip doesnt want to go higher

Yeah, that's what it seems like to me. 

However, another thought has come to my head. What's if it's my northbridge that's the problem? It's running at around 70-80c idle.... I should probably change the TIM but that requires me to remove my mobo from the case which I really can't  be bothered to do right now. 

[AdamBGames]

4 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Barely raised it. Think it was around 2.5-3v, to be safe. 

 

Yeah, that's what it seems like to me. 

However, another thought has come to my head. What's if it's my northbridge that's the problem? It's running at around 70-80c idle.... I should probably change the TIM but that requires me to remove my mobo from the case which I really can't  be bothered to do right now. 

it might be, but i understand the cba part

[Liiioo]

2 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Barely raised it. Think it was around 2.5-3v, to be safe. 

Is this the voltage with which you are running the cpu? 

Because 2.5V - 3V is much to high, normaly CPUs run with 0.8V - 1.5V. But 1.5V is really, really high.

[Guest]

27 minutes ago, Liiioo said:

Is this the voltage with which you are running the cpu? 

Because 2.5V - 3V is much to high, normaly CPUs run with 0.8V - 1.5V. But 1.5V is really, really high.

Edit: I'm genuinely stupid. I meant 1.2v is auto. 1.35 is safe for this cpu. Sorry my bad. 

Edited July 6, 2017 by ImadKnight