- Oct 13, 2014
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As per the title, the base clock on my cpu (FSB, reference clock, not sure what to call it) appears to have overclocked somehow while I was playing a game. I've never seen this happen before and I've had this cpu for ~4 years now.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll start off with those.
Idling with a web browser open:
http://imgur.com/dC8rWfc
Running Prime95:
http://imgur.com/TmXoOfg
The program that is showing the readings in the screenshot is HWInfo64,
The "maximum" values are the ones I'm talking about being overclocked while I play the game. The Bus speed goes from 245 (which is what is set in the BIOS) to 265. I can't say if this is a recurring issue, I've only noticed it today. I'm also not sure For how long these readings were taken, I will probably test a little more thoroughly later on using the graph functionality in HWInfo64 and update this thread
The name of the game I was playing when these readings were taken is "The Crew", a racing game.
Is it possible that the game itself has somehow managed to overclock my CPU or something? Perhaps another software piece is doing this?
If not, I would imagine this is a hardware issue?
Details of the PC the problem occured on:
AMD Athlon x4 640 (overclocked to 3.3GHz stable, tested in prime95 and OCCT)
Biostar N68S3+ motherboard
Seasonic S12 620W psu
AMD r7 260x GPU (overclocked also by roughly 15%)
2x4GB Patriot g2 RAM
PNY 120 GB xlr8 SSD (game is installed on SSD)
Hitachi 500gb HDD
Windows 7 64 bit Home edition
Anything else you'd like to know please ask I'd be more than happy to provide further details.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll start off with those.
Idling with a web browser open:
http://imgur.com/dC8rWfc
Running Prime95:
http://imgur.com/TmXoOfg
The program that is showing the readings in the screenshot is HWInfo64,
The "maximum" values are the ones I'm talking about being overclocked while I play the game. The Bus speed goes from 245 (which is what is set in the BIOS) to 265. I can't say if this is a recurring issue, I've only noticed it today. I'm also not sure For how long these readings were taken, I will probably test a little more thoroughly later on using the graph functionality in HWInfo64 and update this thread
The name of the game I was playing when these readings were taken is "The Crew", a racing game.
Is it possible that the game itself has somehow managed to overclock my CPU or something? Perhaps another software piece is doing this?
If not, I would imagine this is a hardware issue?
Details of the PC the problem occured on:
AMD Athlon x4 640 (overclocked to 3.3GHz stable, tested in prime95 and OCCT)
Biostar N68S3+ motherboard
Seasonic S12 620W psu
AMD r7 260x GPU (overclocked also by roughly 15%)
2x4GB Patriot g2 RAM
PNY 120 GB xlr8 SSD (game is installed on SSD)
Hitachi 500gb HDD
Windows 7 64 bit Home edition
Anything else you'd like to know please ask I'd be more than happy to provide further details.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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