Quote Originally Posted by Skerlnik View Post
So my PC has been running great for weeks, until yesterday. Vista started crashing for no reason. Haven't installed anything (or any windows updates) so I knew it had to be hardware. Thought it was my memory, so I ran memtest86 for hours and hours, and it all checked out ok. Even worse, due to the crashing my user profile corrupted, so Vista started loading a "temporary" profile - such fun! Spent hours recovering my settings... if anyone is experiencing this, I have some tips for ya!

Bad news... it was my CPU. I don't know what's going on, but I had to up the voltage from 1.38 to 1.40v to make it Orthos stable again. It's been perfectly stable at 1.38v for many weeks, so now I'm worried. I remember hearing about processors that continually need more & more voltage to be stable - a sign that they're on their way out. I hope this isn't true!

Any advice?

Regards,
Sker
was your cpu set at 333 x 9 with 1.38v? was it orthos or prime95 stable? how long?

e6600@ 3.0ghz seems very conservative....No at worst cpu is not on the way out but degrading and I highly doubt this at 1.38v and 3000mhz....