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Hi, thanks for replying. I'm not worried i'm just confused, Intel works in mysterious ways. Anyways thanks for clarifying this out, have a great day

Hi, checking for things on the device manager i noticed that under System Devices i have the 200 series drivers for the chipset the problem is that i'm on a Extreme 4 z370 motherboard... I'm not really into chipsets but it would be logical to me that the z370 needs the 300 series one, am i wrong? Tried installing the Asrock site INF driver and also ran a scan with the Intel driver and software online checker thing, averything looks normal but i'm still confused, can someone explain this to me? Thank you c:

Have some other questions.. This is what i get after 50 mins in AIDA Anyways yersterday during a test aida gave me a couple of times HArdware Failure Detected and i kinda freaked out, i read that it may be caused by bad RAM stick so i ran memtest86 during the night but it reported 0 errors so i thought it could be lacking some voltage on the cpu, i then set it to 1.22V instead of 1.21V and the above graph is what i get, what do experts think?

Wait, i just realized that i confused the VID with the Vcore.... VCore is @1.2V VID is 1.3V, my bad.

doesn't work for me: If boost enabled i can change the clock with no problem if boost disabled i can change it but after pressing enter boost reappears disabling it again set's clocks multipliers to AUTO changing them of my choice re enables boost ;v Anyways i played around with c-states, deactivated C7 then in windows i have resetted the power plans default settings and set the maximum performance minum cpu power to 5% and now it works (???) Dunno what to say, minimum voltage at 0.740V and 800 Mhz on idle, maximum on 1.3V and 4.8 even tho i set the bios @1.21V, LLC value to 2 which is the first non flat level it downvoltages to 1.26 on load. Cinebench score 1577 temps from 76ç to 78° except core 2 which is always angry and ramps up to 82°

Oooh, i see, well i could upgrade the cooler in the future, don't quite like the idea of delidding. Thanks sir for this information

Tried your suggestion but there is something i don't get, Boost technology allows you to basically overclock the chip infact if i disable it in the BIOS the freq. stays at stock (3.7Ghz) and the voltage lowers a lot (as expected), but if i manually set the core ratio to 4.8 it re-enables the boost by default giving me the same problems. Anyways i found that using balanced plans in power option fixes the thing on idle but i still don't understand why selecting performance mode and lowering the minimum cpu usage to 5% does not archieve the same results...

That's bad news, anyways i have to wait for the 1080 ti to arrive then i will see if the temps are acceptable. My friend has a h100i and infact temps are lower but i don't understand why... okay long term benchmark should benefit from the way more dissipation area that the h100 offers but during idle when the pump is let's say at 34° there should not be any differences, the contact area of the pump is the same for both.

Pardon me for the bad english . Hello again, i haven't specified the cooler, i'm using a H80i GT and the Artic MX4 (i believe). So i tested 4.8 on all cores using 1.25V because 1.2V was not enough and i get around 80° while running Cinebench, on idle i get like 36/37 on all cores except the second which is always a bit hotter then others. The problem is that with Prime95 on the first test (the hotter one) the chip throttles down because temps get on the 95/100 °, i tried to reseat the cooler but temps improved for about 4 degrees on idle with no significant changes on load, the pump stays around 40 to 42 ° during stress tests, is there something wrong? Maybe the TIM under the heatsink is not good enough (Thanks Intel, this is the second chip i found) but i don't want to delid until warranty expires. Furthermore i have a question, CPU voltage and frequency stays at maximum during idle and i can't get to lower it, i changed the power plans option and set the minimum cpu load at 20% while maintaning the maximum at 100%, in the bios i have all intel's technologies ON and the LLC to level 3 (from 1 to 5 levels scale), any suggestions? Thanks Edit: Found out that for a realistic ish real world usage simulation is recommended to use Prime 26.6 because it does not use some AVX istructions (correct me if i'm wrong), anyways temps stabilize at 85° for most cores while core 2 stays at 93°

Thanks for the replies, i will keep experimenting other settings and if anything usefull will be found i will update this post.

Hello friends, Yesterday has arrived my new boy the 8700k and the Asrock Extreme 4 so i started to do some benchmarks and optimizing the settings. Keep in mind that my last big boy was the 4790k which i never even tried to go after 1.3V and 4.6GHz. I noticed that the mobo (last bios) sets the automatic voltage of the core at 1.45V which i think it s insane infact i can t get on stress test without reaching 95+ on some cores, i decided then to set a fixed voltage of 1.2V and a 4.7 Ghz on ALL CORES and it seems pretty stable, i m running aida for about 2 hours and i get no more than 76°. I read a lot of people complaining about the right voltage for this chip, a lot if them suggests using 1.36V but it seems pretty high to me. Am i missing something? Is it normal that the mobo auto-voltages the cpuat 1.4 V+? Are there any settings that are causing issues? I m sorry for these dumb questons but i read a lot of topics and i can t get any good (consistent) news fron them, i know that chips are not built in an equal way but i can t figure out if this is or not a good chip. Thanks for the replies

Sorry for bad english <3 I had the same (kinda) problem, i wanted to upgrade from 970 to 1070 ti or 1080. The fact is you are paying a lot for a brand new card so paying a bit more should not make a huge difference and it could be a good investment, if the price difference isn't excessive i would go for the 1080 as i think the TI is a bit excessive if you don't want to play 4k. I decided to go for the 1080 and i'm really happy with this choice, no problems even for 144hz so far but as Alex says this is a bad time for decisions, i would definetly wait for some benchmarks from the RTX series and then i would put my eye on the 2070 aswell

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Hi everybody, can you help me on this? I'm sorry for bad english, pardon me. So there isn't a lot to say i just have stutters in pretty much every game with really bad frametimes. My system; i7 4790k stock / oc to 4.6 GTX 1080 AORUS stock / +125 core , +400 mem (Stable) 16 DDR3 Vengeance 1600 Mobo -> MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Storage -> Sandisk 240 ssd for system and some games with a 2Tb WD Green Playing on a 34um67 ultrawide monitor from LG (Yes it does have freesync, obviously disabled), with a cooler master mouse and a corsair k70 LUX i will provide you some graphs, first of all this is my UserBenchmark result -> http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/10393428 Keep in mind that cpu temperature never goes over 75 with stock frequences and all games are capped to 60 Fps as video refresh rate (Yes i tried uncapping them, nothing changes) This is the situation in PUBG, med settings vsync on (SSD) This is witcher 3 all maxed vsync on. (HDD) Final Fan tasy XV 4k textures Maxed vsync on (it never ran smoothly it may just be not greatly optimized as PUBG (HDD) And last but not least GTA V all maxed with 1.250 resolution vsync off (HDD) Thing i tried: 1)Clean install 2)Changing pagefile to manual / system managed or even to 0 3)EVERYTHING UPDATED (Mobo bios, vga bios, vga driver, chipset etc) 4)Cleaned the pc from dust 5)Malware free, after clean install 6)Tried different settings ingame and with Nvidia panel (Vsync on / off / Adaptive, Triple buffering, Threaded optimization, power management) 7)Deactivated monitor features as DAS or Response time as it might interfere with the frametime 8)Tried different OC's for CPU and GPU 9)Changed hdmi cable 10)Prayed our lord and saviour jen Hsun Huang 11)Disabled Sneaky windows features as superfetch prefetch 12)Updated windows to latest version No changes whatsoever. Mobo Issue? HDD / SSD Issue? Ram is new, the gpu has like 7 months, cpu and mobo somewhere between 2014 / 2015 I really need a hand, i cannot find any other things to try anymore , thank you all who lost their precious time reading this

Hi friends, sorry for bad english. i'm experiencing a nasty problem with my 1080 Aorus, for those who don't know it has rgb lighting and it is controlled only via the Gigabyte's proprietary software "Aorus Engine" which controls the overclock too. So the problem is that i use Msi Afterburner to have an OSD while playing and seems like it is interfering with the Gigabyte's program, i cannot set the overclock because if i leave the Afterburner settings on default it will "Lock" the voltage limit of the card to stock even if on the Aorus engine is all the way up to 150% (I found a stable OC +125 core +400mem) while if i overclock only via Afterburner everytime i restart the setting are not applied because the other program loads a bit after the msi so it overrides the settings (yeah i could set manually everytime i log in but i think there is a smarter way) Seems like afterburner is controlling the Voltage and power settings while Aorus the frequencies, this creates stutter and frametime spikes in games such as Rust PUBG FFXV etc. The funny part is that i cannot uninstall the card software otherwise the led would go white, at the same time i wan't to monitor the system via MSI's OSD because i love that program, is there any way i can get the rgb controls without the app? Thank you