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Overclock causing system instability?
Hey all, I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me out with. You see i've had this custom built PC for about 8 months now. From the day I assembled it, I've had my 3570k running a 1GHz overclock to 4.8Ghz. Now although I haven't done any day long torture tests on the OC, I have tested it multiple times for up to an hour with Prime 95 and not had any crashing. I have however noticed for some time that powerful applications (cad software, games, etc.) are often unstable, and sometimes my whole system loses its stability. Now the other day, I finally got fed up with all the crashing (ive already tried troubleshooting my Windows install, memory, and graphics) I lowered the clock rate down to it's native 3.8GHz. When I went back in to launch the game that had been crashing (LoL) it started fine. I then restarted it several times with no issues. Now I haven't been able to do very thorough testing at the new clock speed, but does anyone think the overclock could be the reason for all my crashing? I'll probably test this more later, but another question is, will this down clock have much effect on my gaming performance? (I game at 6000x1200 on a HD 7870, so I was thinking my GPU would bottom out long before my CPU does) Also, do you guys think i could safely bump my OC up to 4GHz without having to worry about stability? Thanks guys.
tl;dr Is a 1GHz oc above stock speed enough for system instability? Will dropping the oc back to 3.8GHz also drop my framrate in game? And is 4GHz a stable number?