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I can do the first one, but not the second. I'm running the base clock for the cache. Didn't want to mess with it until I made progress in other areas. Don't know if that was necessary, but it was the route I took. OCing isn't new to me, but getting this far into the weeds is.?

That would be ideal, but I'll be damned if it can be done. I swapped out an H100 for an H115 and it helped a bit, but the only other option would be a custom cooler, but even then I don't know if I can keep it cool. I will be messing with voltage more tomorrow and hope to get it lower.

Good to know. I will stop trying to OC to pass this test. Sure wish they would better note what actually is happening in their stress tests. Now I have a new one to figure out. When I use the settings I have, I can pass the OCCT small and large and Aida64 runs for hours and shows an average of 88c with some spikes at 94c. I figure that is good as I know in real world use I won't get there very often, if ever. The issue I have is with Realbench. The stress test gets going, but blue screens after about 2 minutes with Clock_Watchdog_timeout. IT is so bad that Windows can't even create the dump file. I have to do a reset or hard shutdown or it will set on the screen at 0% complete. I'm not sure what part of my OC is causing it and if it would crossover to my daily use. So far nothing I have done with regular use in Windows has caused any BSODs.

Might be a stupid question, but I am able to set the max voltage I want, but with adaptive, how do I make sure it doesn't dip below a certain point? So if it is dipping to 1.02 and it shouldn't go below 1.25, where would that setting be? Thanks! This is the first time I have gotten into tweaking voltage settings beyond a simple manual entry.

OCCT 5.0.1. It was using the 2019 set with AVX, Logical Cores and 90% memory.

Okay, a bit of an update. I switched to adaptive CPU voltage and moved the LLC to 5. I can now run OCCT large and small without errors and got a max temp of 81c doing the small. However, when I did the LINPACK, it racked up 15 errors in a 30 minute run. I wish I knew what those errors were, but I couldn't find a way to view them. I thought the end of the run would produce a report in OCCT, am I wrong? How are you supposed to know what errors it found? I was also able to run an hour long test of AIDA64 without issue and the max temp was 92c with an average of 87c. Any suggestions on other tests I should do? Should I move the AXV offset up one? During the testing, HWiNFO64 showed an average of 1.203V and a max of 1.296V.

I'm getting faster ram this week. That's why I haven't tried any RAM stuff.

HWiNFO64 shows the voltage at 1.23V. Just ran the LINPACK again and after 5 minutes some of the cores jumped up to 101c for a moment and so the the CPU Package. It seems only during the part of the test where AVX is done as the test while at 5G has the cores running under 70c, but when the speed drops to 4.8, they start to climb and start to peak really high. I know this must be the AVX part as the offset is taking place and the speed drops by the offset.

Okay, it has been awhile since I put together a new machine and I'm working on overclocking it manually as the settings in the UEFI put way too much voltage and I hit thermal max pretty quick during stress testing. I have managed to get it stable at 4.9 with 1.24 volts, LLC 7, stock cache speed and an AVX offset of 2. However, when doing certain tests (LINPACK in OCCT) it will eventually stop because a couple of the cores will eventually reach over 96c even though the AIO coolant is still 35c with an ambient temp of 21c. I am using a Corsair H115i and it idles around 31c and during anything other than small sets or the linpack, it never gets above 82 degrees. My goal is to get to 5GHz with an AVX offset of 2. I think I can get there without a major bump in voltage, but I'm wondering why the AIO can't keep those couple of cores from reaching higher temps over a period of about 10 minutes of hardcore stress testing. If I can get 5G and keep the temps down during less aggressive testing (larger sets and an offset for AVX), I think I'll be okay. Since I have gotten to 4.9 on 1.24 volts, does that mean I got lucking in the silicon lottery for that, but not in the heat generation area? Is it normal for the cores to keep jumping up a degree or so every iteration of the test until thermal max and the AIO's coolant staying so low (35c)? Any input would be great. The last OC I did was a 5820K that I got to 4.7 on an H100i. I put my system information in the signature. I hope it shows up.