After oc system sometimes wont boot

leonnee

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Hey
I just oc my cpu from 2.4 to 2.65, it was stock at 2.1. Its a phenom x3e.
Some times when i try to boot the system, it just hands and my monitor is blank, usually works fine the second time. I didnt have this at 2.4. Ive been running prim95 for 2 hours now and seems fine so far, is the oc unstable or is it fine?
I made the voltage 1.3. Strange thing is that cpuz says vcore is 1.216. In the bios i set vcore to 1.2 the max than i set over volt to .1, so i would think it would be running at 1.3 right?
thanks
 

PreferLinux

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Update the BIOS to see if that fixes the boot problems, as it is definitely the overclock but could be caused by BIOS problems (as it seems to possibly be stable). Try running LinX as it stresses the CPU significantly more than Prime95 to see if it is stable. If you don't like to do that, then run Prime95 for more like at least >4 hours, some would say >8.