Excidium00 Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Well, today, I've had 3 BSODs in 3 hours. I checked all my BIOS settings, which have been at stock for a while now. My second core decided to fail during the blend test and I popped the voltage up a touch before typing this out and I'm gonna start prime up again. If it actually takes more voltage to be stable at stock, should I get a new chip? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireonice Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 I would. But its really up to you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excidium00 Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 I would. But its really up to you. Well, I ram memtest overnight and it appears that it has been causing the problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLS2008 Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 I was going to say, run memtest to check the RAM. If the memtest fails, replace the RAM and run Prime again. If Prime fails with RAM that passes memtest, get a new CPU as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excidium00 Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Right now I'm running my RAM at a slower speed with tighter timings, seems to be working in the meantime until I can order some new RAM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verran Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Man, it's just amazing to me how fast people jump to spending money to fix their OC. Maybe it's just a temp issue, or maybe you just need to adjust some secondary voltages a bit. Why are you so quick to just buy a whole new chip just because the OC wiggles a littlle bit? People are always so quick to throw money at OC issues. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excidium00 Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Man, it's just amazing to me how fast people jump to spending money to fix their OC. Maybe it's just a temp issue, or maybe you just need to adjust some secondary voltages a bit. Why are you so quick to just buy a whole new chip just because the OC wiggles a littlle bit? People are always so quick to throw money at OC issues. Well, it isn't OCd anymore, if it was, I'd have played with the voltages and other stuff like I usually do. It was just weird that I was getting BSODs left and right just gaming. So I ran prime95 blend, second thread died, figured it was my 720 but after running the small FFT test and 2 cores threw an error. So I freaked a bit, ran Memtest overnight and saw that it had an error. I knocked the speed down on my RAM, kept it at stock voltage and it hasn't had a problem since. I'm gonna run another few tests tonight, but I'm thinking its the RAM atm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Well, it isn't OCd anymore, if it was, I'd have played with the voltages and other stuff like I usually do. It was just weird that I was getting BSODs left and right just gaming. So I ran prime95 blend, second thread died, figured it was my 720 but after running the small FFT test and 2 cores threw an error. So I freaked a bit, ran Memtest overnight and saw that it had an error. I knocked the speed down on my RAM, kept it at stock voltage and it hasn't had a problem since. I'm gonna run another few tests tonight, but I'm thinking its the RAM atm. it's almost always RAM, RAM can be so troublesome in the OC'n world Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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