Quote Originally Posted by R31Nismoid View Post
Well since the other week with the heatwave here and my BSOD...
I cant get my E8400 to 4320mhz/480FSB/1.280vcore

Im currently on 4185mhz/465FSB/1.296vcore, and thats about it. I CBF'd at the moment edging it up, to find the total limit

So it seems now i cant clock the CPU back to the original setting that was stable in cooler weather (and its cooler again now)
Every time i run Prime is fails one of the CPU workers in less than 5mins.

Any idea what would be causing it?
Ram or CPU im guessing... fk this is annoying as it was stable perfectly and passed hours on hours of every test under the sun.

Don't keep torturing these chips. Listen to Lee. He keeps telling you guys not to keep torturing these chips like this. Run IBT a couple of times, then just run Orthos Blend/Memtest, and just *use* the computer and enjoy it.

Running these stress tests (that stress the CPU far more than anything else) repeatedly, especially IBT and sometimes prime small fft on hours/days on end, is not really healthy for these chips when they're pushed too hard. Your chip might be degrading from it. Seen it happen plenty enough. One guy degraded from 3.6 to 3.4 ghz (needed higher vcore--1.34 vs 1.32v) for 3.6 after a few weeks of repeated IBT's. And 1.32v isn't even that high.

Yes it's possible for chips to degrade even at lower voltages.
All chips respond differently, so what may happen to 1 person might not happen to someone else. Board timings/settings may play a part too.

There have been cases where it was the northbridge going south, or RAM, but memtest would pick that up (you'd probably need something a bit tougher on the NB to pick up problems there, like Orthos/prime Blend).