x4 860k Stable in Prime95 but crashes in Gang Beasts?

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epicman2456

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Okay so this may seem weird but for some reason, when I overclock my x4 860k to 4.1Ghz@1.44v it remains perfectly stable in Prime95 for a few hours with decent temperatures, but crashes randomly in the game 'Gang beasts'? I really don't understand how that's even possible because I run Prime95 for a few hours and it's perfectly stable but I play gang beasts for an hour and I get a CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT crash. I upped the voltage but it still finds a way to crash, with a higher voltages it crashes with a DPC_WATCHDOG_ERROR or something like that. My PSU is an EVGA 650GQ and my motherboard is Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H. To be clear, this never happened when I had a 4GHz@1.392v OC so I think it is a stability issue but I was just wondering if there were any other steps to follow that might allow to me to fix this.
 
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Martell1977
I OC'd my secondary PC a while back from 2.83ghz to 3.6ghz, it took Prime95 over 5 hours to find an error. It's stable at 3.5ghz but 3.6 is a little to far and rarely and randomly crashes when gaming. It sounds like you either need to run Prime95 longer or just leave it at 4ghz, I doubt 100mhz will make much of a difference at those speeds anyway.
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I OC'd my secondary PC a while back from 2.83ghz to 3.6ghz, it took Prime95 over 5 hours to find an error. It's stable at 3.5ghz but 3.6 is a little to far and rarely and randomly crashes when gaming. It sounds like you either need to run Prime95 longer or just leave it at 4ghz, I doubt 100mhz will make much of a difference at those speeds anyway.
 
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Prime95 is arguably the best program to use for temperature testing of an OC system under stress of 100% cpu usage. But thats it. It doesn't use the full gamut of instruction, it does nothing for gpu usage, it does nothing for ram usage or stability. These too are important for OC stability, not just temps. If you want to really test for stability you'll need a program like Asus ROG RealBench that'll tax the entire system.
 
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