Prime 95, one worker ceasing working.

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Heyo, sorry to bother ya.

Alright, for the past month my PC would crash whenever I would play a game or run a Prime 95 test for longer then 5-10 minutes, no blue screens or anything, just screen would freeze on whatever it was on. In Prime 95 when I ran a test, 4-5 of my workers would stop working before this happened.

After upping the VCore though everything seems stable after running a test for about an hour, though core 6 seemed to stop working. Is this cause for concern?

AMD9590 and I've raised the voltage from 1.53750 to 1.60000.
 
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Well it still wasn't exactly stable so I took it to the shop. Guy there ran some tests but he said he couldn't get the damn thing to crash at all even after an 8 hour stress test and playing some Doom on it. He restored my BIOS to default though and ran a scan getting rid of some malware, got it back today.

Plugged it into a different outlet, been playing games now for 2.5 hours and no crashes or anything. Hell seems snappier than before even.
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That is how Prime works. If one of your cores are not working properly (in this case, probably because of undervoltage) it will stop the worker automatically. If you look at the log, you will probably see that it will express an error. Regarding the freezing issue, that sounds (to me) that you have to little voltage going to the core, hence why it crashes.

Just for extra details, what CPU is it, and what voltage do you run?
 
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It's an AMD9590 and I've raised the voltage from 1.53750 to 1.60000. The only error I've ever gotten was an illegal sumout error.
 
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I am not at all into AMD, but for Intel that voltage would be considered a little high. What frequency is it running at right now, and at what temperature?

If it is running fine, without crashes and without any cores dropping out in Prime, then you should be fine. Just watch the temperature of the cores and the package, aswell as the CPU voltage.
 
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It is very high I think, and I never had to mess with the VCore before. I'll post the frequency in about 5 hours when I get back home.

I still have my old AMD processor, think it was an AMD8320, back from when I upgraded a year ago. Would it hurt anything if i plugged to run some more tests?
 
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Just make sure that you do not fry the chip, that is all. Apart from it beeing a higher voltage (and I presume) higher temperature.
Other than that I presume it is running fine since you increased the voltage?
 
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Well it still wasn't exactly stable so I took it to the shop. Guy there ran some tests but he said he couldn't get the damn thing to crash at all even after an 8 hour stress test and playing some Doom on it. He restored my BIOS to default though and ran a scan getting rid of some malware, got it back today.

Plugged it into a different outlet, been playing games now for 2.5 hours and no crashes or anything. Hell seems snappier than before even.
 
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