MrSprint

ok, so I think I'm looking in the right place, but with Prime running, none of these appear to change (assuming this is the right view?)

Sorry, rookie error

ok, so I've downloaded hwinfo64, not used it before, what am i looking for? Thanks

So this is driving me nuts, with the cooler temps, i decided to dial my rig back up to 5Ghz (Normally run at 4.8Ghz over the summer), so dialled in a offset of 60 in the Bios, set the Multiplies to 50, and everything else auto DDR4 is at 3700Mhz (4000Mhz Dims) Clock Cache thing at 48 whats odd though is that when I run Prime95 FFTs, It maxes all 12 threads, but then very quickly, this happens... Certain cores seem to back off? Also, If i'm rendering in Adobe and leveraging the iGPU too, I get some funny behaviour where the screen will suffer like a soft crash, and the iGPU will just stop contributing... My suspicion is its perhaps a power issue, but perhaps not the offset, but this is where my knowledge starts to thin Any and all thoughts welcome Motherboard is an ASRock Fatality i6 Gaming on the latest Bios.

So I took your advice, and dialled the OC back to 4.8Ghz, and the difference while rendering video was significant! CPU usage doesn't hit 100% anyway, but the iGPU now does, solidly, and stably (used to fluctuate), and is rendering videos out faster than it did with the higher clock. As an added bonus, my temps have dropped nearly a full 10ºc! (under full load). So for the tiny gain, and the fact I can run all my cooling at much lower speeds, I'm just going to stick with this! A practical compromise! Cheers for the advice! Sprint

I have direct airflow over the VRMs, when I was dialling in the overclock, i did find that the VRMs getting too hot was causing the overclock to fail, so I now have a fan directly over the socket, so fairly confident the VRMs are ok... but I'll double check

Hi Guys So I built my rig back in March, and have what I thought was a very stable 4.9Ghz and 5Ghz overclock dialled in (I have both profiles saved in the UEFI), which has worked solidly since. Bomb proof under Prime95 and anything else I threw at it. As well as gaming though, I also do some video editing on the side, and as many will know, Adobe released an update to leverage the power of the iGPU within the 8700k along with the GPU (980Ti in my case) and the raw CPU power. However, with that now enabled, when the CPU/iGPU are both under heavy load, particularly while rending or skimming 4K footing in adobe, my screens will go black, and then the desktop will reload, almost like a "soft crash", but the clip i'm working on will just go "all red", the iGPU load in task manager drops to nothing (and the 980ti), and whatever I was working on (exporting for example) will be corrupt. I can render clips out using software only without any issue, it just seems to affect the iGPU. If i restart adobe it seems fine. I have an ASRock Fatality K6 Gaming board, and with alot of 8th gen boards from what I understand, they've made overclocking so easy, I really haven't had to change many settings, and left most of "auto", although I didn't use the Auto overclock feature as that ramped up the CPU voltage way to high, and was causing even my Corsair 150i to struggle. Do I need to be providing more power to the CPU socket for the iGPU? What setting would that be under ASRocks UEFI? Or is this possibly a problem caused by something else? All input and advice welcome Thanks guys 8700k@4.9Ghz (Delidded) ASRock Gaming K6 Motherboard 32Gb Corsair Vengeance 4000Mhz running at 3700Mhz 512Gb Samsung 960Pro NVMe (OS) 1Tb Samsung 860Evo Sata SSD 6Tb WD Black + 32Gb Intel Optane Memory 980Ti Hybrid Water cooled (No OC) 850W Corsair HX850i Corsair H150i 360mm AIO

So after rebuilding my old gaming rip with some old spares, a few choice new parts and such, I was pretty much up and running, and feeling pretty pleased with myself. i5 4670K @4.2Ghz 16Gb 1600Mhz 980GTX Ti Hyrbid CPU and GPU water cooling 240Gb SanDisk SSD for Windows 60Gb Corsair SSD for Caching of 4x 2Tb WD Black's in Raid 5 As stated, I have a lone 240Gb SSD for WIndows, and 4x 2Tb WD Blacks which I set up in Raid 5. Performance was good however for the mixture of gaming and video editing I intend todo, I decided to pickup a 60Gb SSD, and use IRST to enable SSD caching for this large volume in the hope I'd see some speed boosts. However, if anything the SSD cache is slowing it down to a crawl. If I copy a file from the stand alone SSD to the Raid volume, I get a bust of about 2Gbps where a third of the file transfers, but it then grinds rapidly to about 9Mbps... which then takes several minutes to complete I'm fairly sure I've set it up correctly but I'm doubting myself, having not played with IRST before... Am I doing something stupid or is there something wrong here? Thanks in advance Sprint

Hello chaps So quick bit of back ground, thought I'd share my little project and get peoples thoughts I was into PC building back in the early 2000's, having an old water cooled AMD 2600 Barton AMD and the worlds most unstable motherboard on a students budget, but somewhere along the line I started doing more editing than gaming, so switched to a MacPro. I've been using Macs for over 10 years but wasn't happy with the direction apple was taking with their desktop machines and OS, so have decided to come back to the PC realm. My god a lots changed and I'm considerably out of the loop! I discovered Linus Tech Tips while looking something up (can't remember what, possibly overclocking settings) and have been watching lots of videos and getting back up to speed on current hardware and new technologies. Anyway, in about 2013 I built my then girlfriend (now wife) a cheap mid range gaming PC. It was used for about a year before she decided she preferred her new PS4 for causal gaming. The PC was going unused and because of the profession i'm in, i decided to commandeered it, and pressed it into service as my ESXi server, a task for which it was woefully underutilized for. It had: MSI Z87-G43 board Intel i5 4670K @ 3.4Ghz 16Gb of ram (up from 8Gb for the VMs) some generic HDD Radeon HD 7700 Nothing special, it was mainly built to play SimCity so nothing stressing. Scroll forward to present day, and I finally find editing software that looks to be on par with Apples Final cut, allowing me to finally sever ties with Apple desktops. I decided I needed a desktop (I've had a windows 10 laptop for 5 years but its nothing special) which would allow me to edit, AND play PC games again!! I managed to recover my old Cooler Master Stacker tower from my AMD Barton days from my mums loft which I'd left there when I moved out, (attic for those over the pond), and decided to buy a cheap Mobo/CPU/Ram combo to take over as my VM server, and allow the gaming rig to once again become exactly that. Firstly I transplanted the gaming rig into my 10 year old Cooler Master case, and I have to say its a superb case even on today's standard, as i was able to switch the motherboard to be mounted on the other side of the case, and moved the new server hardware into the old case. I knew I wanted to squeeze a little more out of that CPU so went for a AIO cooler master from the off to allow me to overclock, but other than the cooler and an SSDs, everything else was recycled. So now I have up and running: MSI Z87-G43 board Intel i5 4670K @ 4.2Ghz 16Gb of 1600Mhz ram 240Gb SanDisk Ultra II SSD 4x 2Tb WD Blacks in Raid 5 with 60Gb SSD Cache (I had the WD Blacks lying around after upgrading some drives in my NAS and the SSD arrives later this week) Radeon HD 7700 750w Corsair PSU Cooler Master Twin 120mm fan AIO water cooler thing and an old DVD burner (which I think I might bin!) Up to this point, I'd only spent about £250! I'm quiet pleased so far! I think the weak link is the GPU, so I've since then ordered a EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti HYBRID Graphics Card off ebay, so total spend is just under £600. All in all, I've quiet pleased, (once the 60Gb SSD and GPU arrive) and have really got my PC Building bug back!! I've since found out about this new RGB craze (god I'm going to sound like a proper old boy, back in my day and all that ) and am loving the look of these RGB fans!! the LL120's have taken my fancy, but hears my question.... Seeing as my board is from the pre-RGB days, whats the best way to go about getting RGB control via desktop software into my machine? I want to get a year or maybe two out of this setup before I refresh it from the ground up, new case, Mobo/CPU ech) So yes, I can see myself spending some time here seeking advice as i get back up to speed, and seeking advice. If anyones interested, I'd be happy to post some pictures of the build? Thanks all for getting through all of the above, all thoughts and comments welcome Sprint