SWTOR Damaged My i7 2600K

I've been overclocking and tweaking PC's for 20 years and from what you described you are suffering data loss and corruption from an unstable overclock.

While it's great that you can play those other games overclocked and not have issues, I can also tell you that MMO's don't function the same way as FPS or RTS games and that your issues are overclock related.

With your overclock enabled, run 24 hours of Memtest 86+, if you pass that your memory side of the OC is fine and won't need voltage, speed, or timing adjustments. If it fails, you need to slow it down or crank up the volts (but don't exceed 1.6v on your voltage or you'll nuke your processor). If you throw red, you've been corrupting your data slowly until it's gotten you where you are now.

Then boot into windows and run 24 hours of Prime95 x64 on torture test. If one or more cores stop working during the test, your processor side of the overclock is bad and you've been corrupting your data this entire time, until it got so bad you BSOD.

After Prime95 x64, run 8 hours of OCCT Linpack. It will push your processor temperatures through the roof, so be ready to shut the system down as it emulates a full load and if heat's the issue, this will find it (I ended up going to a Noctua DH-14 to pass my OCCT Linpack).

Then, run OCCT GPU Linpack, as it will do the same thing and identify issues in your cooling on your cards.

If you fail any step of that process, YOUR OVERCLOCK IS UNSTABLE AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

It took me over a week to get my current overclock stable, and I had to go so far as to tweak GTLVREF lane voltages to stabilize the system.

Good luck.

Why was I quoted? I didn't say that overclocking my card has given me significantly more frames over a stock clock. With an overclock to the video card I NEVER get temps over 68c, EVER, even with my stock EVGA fan cooler assembly - That's what I was driving at. What do your stock clock GPU temps get to, since you're mentioning cut scenes?

I built a system that performs great and has never had a single stability issue, even running DDR3 memory at 1866@9-9-9-28 (on an 800MHz clock with 1.654v) utilizing the weird imc i5's have.

Oh, by the way, the "K" Intel chips have fully unlocked multipliers and were specifically designed to be overclocked and are otherwise no different than the non"K" counterpart.

P.S.: So tell me again about how you don't OC your system but you still bought a K-branded processor? How much did that extra letter cost you?

1. This game is so low on CPU that OCing gives you exactly.....NOTHING
2. I do not buy a CPU because it can be OCed-it oc's itself when need be. Never had the need.
3. OCing your GPU is almost always trouble-be it manufacturer OC or yours.
4. Cutscenes show how dangerously hot it can get. I usually have around 69-71 degrees during gameplay on my GTX 570 in SLI-in cutscenes it gets up to 85 easy. BAD! The game is dangerous for hardware....or can be as I said before.

And stop being so antagonistic. I am IT engineer since around 20 years and just tell you out of experience that overclocking is rubbish. It's tinker ****. Trust me if you need it you need a new rig. Not based on SWTOR though. The games code is broken.

1. This game is so low on CPU that OCing gives you exactly.....NOTHING
2. I do not buy a CPU because it can be OCed-it oc's itself when need be. Never had the need.
3. OCing your GPU is almost always trouble-be it manufacturer OC or yours.
4. Cutscenes show how dangerously hot it can get. I usually have around 69-71 degrees during gameplay on my GTX 570 in SLI-in cutscenes it gets up to 85 easy. BAD! The game is dangerous for hardware....or can be as I said before.

And stop being so antagonistic. I am IT engineer since around 20 years and just tell you out of experience that overclocking is rubbish. It's tinker ****. Trust me if you need it you need a new rig. Not based on SWTOR though. The games code is broken.

Impossible for game to kill systems.

I too have an overclocked i7 2600k @4.5Ghz however in order to maintain stability with Swtor I have had to scale it back to 3.6! This is the only game that cant handle it and im glad im not the only one with the issues. I cannot overclock my CPU and expect Swtor to run more than 20 minutes without crashing.

It's an unstable overclock. Like I said in my last post, if you can't pass the 4 steps of overclock testing, it doesn't matter than you can play a game - you aren't stable and are slowly corrupting the information on your disks until they reach a point of BSOD/reformat/reinstall/start over from scratch.

I guarantee you your "stable" at 4.5 would fail prime95 x64 within an hour.

It seems like people with "K" Sandy Bridges are having a rough time operating this game. I've only got an i5 2400 (3.1/3.4TB) and one GTX460 (Aren't those sweet, little cards?) and it sounds like I'm getting far better performance than you are in the areas you described as having difficulty with.

My resolution is 1920x1080@60hz with all setting turned to max and I VERY rarely drop anywhere below 35fps, even when looking out to the horizon on planets such as Taris. Now, my GTX460 has a core overclock to 800 and I nudged the core volts up to 1050 to compensate for that (no driver crashes), but even that shouldn't make me run circles around your 2600K and SLi'd 460's.

My CPU temps spike to 60c and my GPU temps hit ~68c. No liquid cooling, stock cooler on my CPU, Intel TB turned on, XMP memory profiled and seated on a Gigabyte mobo.

Again, seems like the K's are getting the short end of the stick.

Edit: I do have Vsync on or I tear so freakin' bad because I'm using an LCD HDTV as my display.

Wait a sec. You have been an I.T engineer for 20 years, yet you still don't understand the reason why people overclock their machines.

I'll give you a clue. It's the same reason people mod their vehicles, or throw in some superchargers or a performance exhaust etc...

They do it because they can and want to see how far they can take their machines.

I very much doubt you've been an IT engineer for 20 years. Maybe a user, but certainly not an engineer.