I'm just wondering what some of the reasons are for a stable overclock of 6-ish months to become unstable as this has happened to me with my i7 920 4.0 OC.
The only reasons I can think of which i've tried to compensate for are..
Temps.. so I reapplied thermal paste, cleaned out the dust etc.
Voltages.. I know power supplies slowly become less efficient over time I was thinking this could have caused the unstable OC so i upped the vcore a little.
I can't really think of anything else that could cause it, I'm normally able to solve stuff like this on my own so before I reset and start again I wanted to see if there was something I was missing..
The only time I seem to freeze is when playing Enemy Territory (which only uses 1 core).. Never freeze in Windows, and the OC passes the Intel burn test on maximum with no problems.
The only reasons I can think of which i've tried to compensate for are..
Temps.. so I reapplied thermal paste, cleaned out the dust etc.
Voltages.. I know power supplies slowly become less efficient over time I was thinking this could have caused the unstable OC so i upped the vcore a little.
I can't really think of anything else that could cause it, I'm normally able to solve stuff like this on my own so before I reset and start again I wanted to see if there was something I was missing..
The only time I seem to freeze is when playing Enemy Territory (which only uses 1 core).. Never freeze in Windows, and the OC passes the Intel burn test on maximum with no problems.