Quote Originally Posted by horatiub View Post
gtj, question:

for a few months, I was stable at 3.4Ghz with the CPU at 1.375V ,FSB and MCH voltage at 1.4 respectively 1.6. Now, I have just ran Orthos blend, and after an hour , it crashes. I went up all the way to 1.45V for the CPU and after less than 2hrs, it crashed again.

Is it possible that over time the CPU will need more power? I mean, it was stable before and now all of a sudden is not.

I have the E6600, 2GHZ G-Skills, 7600GT, 1 Sata HD. My power supply is a Seasonic S12 420W. I hope that is powerful enough.

Any ideas ?
If your machine is otherwise stable, I wouldn't worry about Orthos. My "ernie" machine couldn't pass a 30 minute Orthos but hasn't locked up or otherwise had a problem in months and I push my machines pretty hard.

Having said that, your vcore is pretty low so you have plenty of room to increase. If the Orthos fail bugs you, try increasing vcore in small steps (watching your temps of course) and see how much voltage you need to be stable.

Knowing your memory settings and what the Orthos error message was will help also.

With only 1 drive (and a CD/DVD I assume) a 420 should be OK.

Quote Originally Posted by Velatra View Post
It's funny. I thought Rockmore's posts were rather rude, but nonetheless he managed to reawaken the thread :-).