AMD Unknown 3081 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 3930 MB, Free - 1179 MB
Just to be sure, can anyone in this thread with an overclocked or otherwise non-standard CPU please make sure that you have
recently checked your hardware configuration for stability. It does no one (you, J River, or any of us) any good to chase phantom problems if they turn out to be hardware related.
As a test, I would run
Memtest86+on the affected machine to see if it can make it through a few passes. Then, run
Prime95's torture test for at least 6-10 hours (overnight) and preferably for closer to 24. Lastly, to check your video card, run it through at least one pass of FutureMark's latest version of
3DMark. If it "survives" these tests, then it is much less likely to be hardware related. You can often bang your head against the wall trying to diagnose problems through software that are actually hardware failures (memory, processor overclocking, and power-supply problems are some of the most common, and least diagnosed problems out there).
And lastly, if you haven't done it relatively recently, you could be in for a surprise. Overclocking actually does often reduce the usable lifespan of your CPU or RAM, at least at those high speeds. I've seen many systems that could once hit clocks without breaking a sweat, which tested completely stable, suddenly require voltage bumps to maintain the same clocks or require reductions on the clocks themselves two or three years later. Usually this is a sign of an eventual (sometimes rapidly, and sometimes slowly) decent towards total failure.
I'm absolutely not suggesting that this is everyone's problem (or even anyone), but it is worth checking and eliminating the possibility.
In this particular case, if that happens to be an older Socket 939 or AM2 CPU, I know some of them actually didn't hit 3GHz that easily, and sometimes required fairly hefty voltage bumps to hit those targets (while 2.5-2.8 remained relatively simple). I've personally had a few Socket 939 chips eventually go from that level of overclocking. Of course, your chip could just as easily be a much newer one that can easily hit those targets (or might even be underclocked or showing up as Unknown for some other reason, it can happen). But, if you had to push it a bit to hit that target, back in the day a bit (though it doesn't need to be that far back), it might not still be good.
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