Voltage Creep?

[lhgpoobaa]

Has Anyone experienced voltage creep when overclocking? This is what i mean:

I have a TbredA XP1700+ with a 8K3A+ and a big beefy 550W psu and a kickass MCX-462.

When i first started overclocking, i found the following two speeds to be 'moderately' stable, or at least stable with the basic stresstests like memtest, prime95 and toast:
1750Mhz @ 1.600v or 1833Mhz @ 1.700v

Then after more demanding stress testing, particular UT the original i found that the game kept bombing out after a few minutes unless i did
1750Mhz @ 1.650v or 1833Mhz @ 1.750v

So at those settings all seemed hunki-dory... and have been chugging away at 1833 for the past number of months. (cure for cancer 100% all the time)

Recently though ive been getting odd crashes, sometimes when i was nowhere near the system, and they seem to have progressivly got worse IMO.
1833Mhz @ 1.750v just doesnt seem stable anymore, usually crashing within a day... and to get stable operation at 1750Mhz needs 1.7v.

HMMMM
I wonder if the OC is hurting it at all?

Anyone else seen such behavior of creeping voltages?



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[TheMASK]

i have had similar experiences too. sometimes the games i am playing just exit to windows. but i have never kept my system ON for more than 6 hrs at a time. Prime95 needs a solid voltage for the overclock to work fine while some other apps run perfectly fine.

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[namek0]

I've heard the 1700+A isn't all that stable overclocking more than 1700mhz, I'm not 100% on that though.

All I know for sure is that the 1700+B is hella stable at almost any mhz

It's all good ^_^

 

[lhgpoobaa]

well 1833 seems just slightly buggey, so im happy to use 1750 with less core voltge and alot less heat.

Now all i have to do is trouble shoot my new R9700 thats have issues.

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