Hey guys, turns out I might have a problem with either RAM, CPU or MB.
I just got my first SB CPU (2600K) and MB (Asus P8Z68-V Pro) a couple of weeks ago and was using offset to overclock. I was only going for 4.5-4.6Ghz overclocks. Volts under 1.38V most of the time. Went to about 1.42 a couple of times as I was learning to use off set. Didn't really do any stress testing at that voltage.
Once I worked out what I was doing after some reading on the Asus forums, I set it up to run 4.5Ghz and ran Prime95 blend and that passed so I left it for a week or so. I decided to try to go a bit higher to 4.6Ghz and this time I ran Prime95 blend, but used a custom RAM size of 6500MB (I have 8 GB of RAM) which was suggested to me by a member on another forum. Running it like that I get an error within 5 seconds. I then decided to run Intel Burn Test and it also failed. LinX same thing.
Usually I only run a few passes of LinX or Intel Burn Test then go to Prime95.
Anyway, I decided to load optimized defaults and put everything back to stock and I keep getting an error within 5 seconds of running Prime 95 Blend with custom RAM size. LinX and Intel Burn Test both fail too on stock settings.
I never actually tested at stock settings when I first got the CPU, MB and RAM so it was probably like that from the start.
So what do you guys think is the problem? From the quick Google search I did it seems to indicate that it's a memory problem. I'm running Memtest 4.20 right now, but so far there is no errors at all.
I'm stumped. Not sure if it's the RAM, CPU or MB.
I just got my first SB CPU (2600K) and MB (Asus P8Z68-V Pro) a couple of weeks ago and was using offset to overclock. I was only going for 4.5-4.6Ghz overclocks. Volts under 1.38V most of the time. Went to about 1.42 a couple of times as I was learning to use off set. Didn't really do any stress testing at that voltage.
Once I worked out what I was doing after some reading on the Asus forums, I set it up to run 4.5Ghz and ran Prime95 blend and that passed so I left it for a week or so. I decided to try to go a bit higher to 4.6Ghz and this time I ran Prime95 blend, but used a custom RAM size of 6500MB (I have 8 GB of RAM) which was suggested to me by a member on another forum. Running it like that I get an error within 5 seconds. I then decided to run Intel Burn Test and it also failed. LinX same thing.
Usually I only run a few passes of LinX or Intel Burn Test then go to Prime95.
Anyway, I decided to load optimized defaults and put everything back to stock and I keep getting an error within 5 seconds of running Prime 95 Blend with custom RAM size. LinX and Intel Burn Test both fail too on stock settings.
I never actually tested at stock settings when I first got the CPU, MB and RAM so it was probably like that from the start.
So what do you guys think is the problem? From the quick Google search I did it seems to indicate that it's a memory problem. I'm running Memtest 4.20 right now, but so far there is no errors at all.
I'm stumped. Not sure if it's the RAM, CPU or MB.