3700+ overclock

[Willz]

Hi

during christmas i overclock my 3700+ AMD 64, i manage to get it to 2.8ghz at 1.45v, did a 12 hour stress test, and got no errors, my idle temperature was 29 degrees and load was 42.

recently i have been experiencing random resets and just last night got a wierd blue screen, when my dad told me i thought ah BSOD, but no, there was no writing so cant of been a BSOD, anyway i went into the bios, and my temperature of the cpu was 49-52dgrees from the game he was playing (Tomb Raider Legend), i upped the voltage to 1.47V and the shutdowns have stopped.

So why all this time have i been able to have my cpu working 100& stable at 2.8ghz overclock and 1.45v but now i have to run it at 2.8ghz and 1.47 to be 100% stable :s


Also, is 49degrees for an AMD 64 3700+ safe?, i think the temperature outside was about 34 degrees aswell.

 

[Addis]

For load, 50c is comfortable. Any higher and you should think about better cooling.

Also upping the voltage increases the temperature. This is just a theory, but maybe your CPU is deteriorating while operating at higher voltages.

 

[Matt555]

Yeah a CPU deteriorating over time (whilst o/c'd) sounds plausable.

 

[Willz]

hmm, yea, well if i get random resets at this voltage then its time to loew the cpu clock speed untill i get better cooling.