I have a water-cooled 4790k OC'd to 4.7 GHz stable on a Z97X Gigabyte Gaming 3 mobo and recently upgraded to 32 Gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 DDR3. With the latest F8d BIOS, I activated the only XMP Profile available and was able to log into Windows 10 but was bombarded with a barrage of crashes, errors and blue screens with any demand put on the CPU.
The voltage is at 1.65v and the timings are set at 11-13-13-31 despite corsair's recommendation of 10-12-12-31 which did not work. I tried memtest86 which produced errors well into the thousands but everything comes back to homeostasis when I drop the frequency to 2200.
I know there is minuscule performance loss, if any at all, but I've paid my dues and want to enjoy the performance.
I am enthusiastic about computers and open to learning. Any advice will be helpful.
Thank You
Specs:
CPU: 4790k @ 4.7GHz
Cooler: Corsair H80i
GPU: Asus Strix 1080ti OC Edition
RAM: 32gb Vengeance Pro DDR3
MOBO: Z97X Gigabyte Gaming 3
PSU: EVGA Supernova 850
SSD: 1T Samsung 850 EVO
HDD: 6T WD Black
Chassis: Cooler Master Storm: Trooper
Display: Asus ROG PG279Q 1440p 165Hz
OS: Windows 10