Improving overclocking stability, understanding VID and Vcore, and analyzing clock speeds and times.
Improving overclocking stability, understanding VID and Vcore, and analyzing clock speeds and times.
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I made my first attempt at PC building about a year and a half ago. If you’re curious, I was mostly ignoring things like CPU/RAM speeds, voltage levels, safe temperatures, and so on. Over time, I started seeing temperatures climb above 85 degrees, and I had to rely on a temporary fix with help from someone who wasn’t very experienced in overclocking. The PC kept running okay for a whole year.
Recently, I’ve been dealing with some BSODs and frequent disconnections (error 519) while playing WoW on my HDD (the second drive), which damaged my Windows. It could have been corrupted addons, but they were up-to-date, so that’s less likely. My RAM might also be the culprit, as I’ve encountered MEMORY_LEAK BSODs and a few other memory-related issues. Despite this, I reinstalled Windows, reapplied thermal paste, and reformatted my HDD. Now I’m working on adjusting clockspeeds and voltages before running a memtest86, hoping it won’t cause any more problems since the test passed well.
Right now, I don’t have another USB drive to run the tests. During stress tests, I noticed some voltage fluctuations. My CPU is clocking in at around 4.6GHz with 1.24V, while the RAM is running at an XMP profile of 3200MHz at 1.35V. The system seems stable (I believe so) when using Cinebench R23.2 and p95 26.6, with core temps maxing out at 81°C and 78°C respectively, showing about a 9°C swing between minimum and maximum in HWMonitor.
I’m using an H100i Pro RGB AIO cooler, which should handle higher speeds if I leave the case open for style reasons. On idle, though, I experience random spikes in temperature and voltage—something that looked normal in older posts, but I want to confirm with solid evidence since the fluctuations seem too much.
To illustrate my worries, I created a graph to visualize these concerns.
https://imgur.com/a/5yrlSaM
The last time you changed the thermal paste was at a lower temperature. You mentioned using 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and products such as Noctua NT-H1, therml grizzly kryonaut, or gc gelid extreme. For the final cleaning before applying new paste, use a coffee filter soaked in isopropyl alcohol.
The last time you changed the thermal paste was at a lower temperature. You mentioned using 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and products such as Noctua NT-H1, therml grizzly kryonaut, or gc gelid extreme. For the final cleaning step, a coffee filter soaked in isopropyl alcohol works well.