Fast Question about Prime95

Eastrider1006

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Hi everybody!

Well, I was testing my Q6600 on overclock. Everything okay, and I never had to change the voltage till 3,1GHz.

But there comes a problem. The first time, I had a bsod when Prime95 was running. I set a bit more voltage (about 1,275 or 1,285), and another bit of FSB. Now everything's alright, I'm alive during 30 minutes and doesn't seem to be any fatal problem.

BUT when i run Prime95, in the FPU stress test (the first one), at the two minutes, the CPU use is at 75% and Prime says "Fatal Error en Worker Thread, etc etc, expected less than 0.5".

I know what it means, calculating failure, but, how do I solve this?

The GTRLMV (?) rails are all in auto, just the lane... 2? or the 3, is about 90mv. Would i have to change it manually?
 
More voltage tends to fix that - it means that the CPU is still getting too little, but the error was not serious enough to cause a bsod. I'd bump the CPU voltage up one notch.
 

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Try the northbridge voltage and maybe FSB term. Also ram instability can cause the rounding errors, make sure your ram is not overclocked so you can rule out ram errors.