Iv been using this Intel CPU for quite a few years now and its been great and I noticed a huge difference in power when I got it after upgrading from an Intel Pentium 4. But Iv never been able to overclock it without running into problems so its been at 3.00GHZ its entire life. I think the problem may be my motherboard. It's an Asrock N7ad-SLI and iv never really been able to get a stable overclock with it, It would usually either crash on prime after 5 or 6 hours or Blue Screen at some random point. So I'd always put the settings back to default becasue I didnt want to push the voltages any higher. Its been about a year now since I last tried overcloking it again.
Iv never actually successfully overcloked a CPU before because this is the first one I ever tried it with.
Its a socket 775 CPU so I'v found it hard or even impossible to find any good motherboards of that socket type for sale now.
So what do you guys suggest I do with it? My graphics card at the moment is a Nvidia GTX 570 so would I be getting a bottle neck somewhere with it at 3.00GHZ? And would I be seeing much of an improvement in performance in games and general PC use if I did manage to overclock it somehow successfully or bought a newer CPU?
Ok I need some serious help now. I tried overclocking again to 3.6 GHZ and the system was running fine for a good few hours. But then programs and google chrome tabs started crashing and getting weird errors. Finally I got loads of blue screen crashes and a few complete system crashes while playing skyrim.
Now as soon as I log into windows, the system crashes with a blue screen. The errors I get include Memory_management, System_Service_Exception and page_fault_In_Non_Paged_Area. Some of thses seemed familiar so I ran Memtest86+ 4.0 for the last 12 hours and got 27 errors. Here's a picture of it
So what should I do next? Start swapping out ram or change memory timings.?I have 8GB of ddr2 800mhz ram, I'm not sure of the timings. At the moment there at auto values. The brand is Vdata
Do you have any other RAM you can test in the system? Also can you get into the BIOS? I assume you can because you said Windows crashes as soon as you log in. First thing I would do is either try different RAM or try one stick at a time and I would also change everything in the BIOS back to it's default settings and go from there.
Yeah, there should be an option in the BIOS to reset everything to default settings. Try that, and then try different RAM or booting with one stick at a time. My motherboard was acting the same way before it died, but we don't have the same motherboard so take that with a grain of salt. Also, you may have to try going up on the voltage, I'm assuming that's why you have no stability when you overclock.
I had already set everything to default and it was still happening. Everytime I try and go near overclocking on this computer this kind of thing ends up happening and then there's always Ram problems. What iv done now is taken out 2 sticks or ram and run the test again, choosing test 5 which it always failed on before. It then passed test 5 a couple of times so I loaded up windows. This time it didnt crash but of course it was running a lot slower since it only had 4Gb of ram. I then repeated that process with the other 2GB of ram and it was fine.
What I'm doing right now is running memetest with all 8Gb again, but I'v switched their postion from where they were originally. So far its been running for 50 minutes with no errors and its on test 8.
Iv been trying to overclock this CPU and motherboard for the last 2 years with no real success. Iv had the vcore up to 1.3V with only a 3.6ghz overclock and still it would crash eventually. The other volatage settings on this motherboard have really weird options with no steady increments of voltage change. If I remember correctly NB was at 1.36V, VTT at 1.25 and GTLREF at Middle while I was trying to get it stable at 3.6GHz. Eventually the computer would just crash or fail prime or even fail to post so Iv kinda given up on bothering overclocking it now because I always end up getting these kind of problems which I appear to have with my RAM now.
Ok she appears to be stable again, It ran memtest without any problems and loaded into windows fine and iv been logged in 40 minutes now without any programs crashing or giving errors.
What just caused that problem then? All I did was rearrange the Ram sticks.
