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My system is an interesting combination of an i7-9700k, 3080ti, and Corsair Vengeancy RGB RS 3600 Mhz ram and a Gigabyte Z390 UD rev 1. I've got some concerns as the XMP profile1 causes the system to be unstable, and that the actual ram channel voltage was 1.4v + some change (which seems a little bit high). I'm very new, and scared when it comes to messing with the magic in the UEFI BIOS. I simply have no idea where to start making the system more stable, and I'd rather not have my expensive ram be set to 2133mhz. Things like the DDRVPP voltage and all the other labels seem too complicated. I can't seem to find any online resources for my exact BIOS on what settings to adjust; any help appreciated.

Want to buy Asrock Z790 Steel Legend Wifi , site says they have tested up to 7000OC ram, but not from gskill, or corsair only teamgroup I wanna buy G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 7200 (F5-7200J3445G16GX2-TZ5RK) or the 7000 version would I be fine? since the price difference i found is very small 10-20 dollars, I don't mind if it doesnt reach full 7000 or 7200, would be ok if it only goes up until 6800, since the gkill 6800 version is in the compatibility list. is there a change that the ram stick with 7000 or 7200 wont work at all in the system, or is the worst case scenario that it will run fine at 6800?

Hello, So i want to overclock my rig, i7 11700k, z590i aorus ultra, 16 gb ddr4 3600 cl16 corsair, sf600 corsair psu. The problem is that my motherboard only saves the vcore value i type in(for example 1.35v) when i choose fixed mode or auto. On Adaptive or Override, no matter what i set vcore to, no matter what offsets i set (plus or minus), after i choose for example 5 ghz all core, the voltage is on 1.467v (in bios). What i want to achieve is adaptive overclock, with adaptive voltage and frequency in windows - when i do not need horsepower frequency and voltage is lower, when i start gaming or doing something - frequency rises and so the voltage I had previously z97 mobo and i7 5775c, and when i set adaptive mode there everything worked as i was expecting (like above) Any ideas? Maybe i need to enable or disable some kind of setting in bios for voltage to be what i typed in All power limits for cpu were disabled (i mean enabled, but i chose highest values like 488 or 4096 ad so on),

I'm trying to OC my 13700k and it seems to be stable after a 30 mins cinebench stress test @ 5.7Ghz 1.55v (P Cores) with max temp of 91 C I know overvolting decreases the lifespan of the CPU, especially with an OV this high. I'm wondering by how much if I keep it running at 1.55v for around 7-8 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dunno if I lost the silicon lottery, but I can't seem to be running it stable with any voltage below that. Should I keep the OC for the little bit of extra performance or revert back to stock turbo settings for the sake of longer lifespan? (5.4Ghz, 1.38v) Your opinions?

Both have positive/negative offset options. What is the actual difference between the two? Changing the Core Voltage Offset in XTU shows a negative IA Offset in voltage monitor (HWMonitor), while the VRM core voltage seems to be lowering CPU voltage usage in bios. Which one should I be tinkering with when undervolting/overclocking?

Running my 9700k at 5.2ghz, 1.38v 1.1v vccio 1.12v vccsa with turbo llc on my z390 aorus ultra. Under load draws 180w, cinebench r23 stable, vrvout reading measures 1.31v - 1.32v under load. Hottest core at 97c. Could I benefit from a repaste? I used a friends thermal paste that came with his cooler master air cooler around 4 years ago. Thinking of getting syy 157 as its only 5 bucks on amazon right now. What other pasts perform better? I want one that lasts a long time and can be used for gpus too.

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Hello everyone, I'm having quite the challenge getting these two new computers to work properly. For the my computer, I had it working completely fine until I started troubleshooting my Wife's builds RAM. The other RAM would not overclock to the rated speeds so I chucked into my PC to see if the RAM was the issue but my PC wouldn't even boot the other RAM. So I pulled it and put my RAM back in. Now I can't get any video signal and the VGA QLed is always lit and sometimes the BOOT QLed is always lit sometimes. I've reflashed the BioS with and without the graphics card, cleared the CMOS with and without the graphics card, moved around the DP cable, only thing I haven't done is reseat the CPU as it worked fine before (was using it without my old 980 for a bit). Am I missing something? Is there anything else I can do? Here is the parts list: Asus ROG Strix Z690-G Intel i5 13600k Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 5600mhz C36 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD EVGA GeForce GTX 980 (temporary until I can snag new graphics cards) Corsair RM1000e Power Supply EK D-RGB 360 aio For the other PC I can't determine which the faulty part is. I cannot boot with XMP and I always get the DRAM QLed when I reboot the PC. I felt like I was missing a setting when enabling XMP so I chucked it into my PC however, as mentioned before, my PC wouldn't even boot with them not matter what; clearing CMOS, Safe Boot, ect. The CPU overclocks just fine so I felt that maybe it was definitely the RAM, however, when I put in the RAM from my build it also will not boot with XMP enabled even though I know it works on my PC. So maybe the motherboard? or CPU? I have no idea. However, when I returned the RAM from troubleshooting on My PC I can boot up just fine at 4800 mhz and an overclocked CPU and back into Windows just not at the rated 5200 mhz speed. So what's the problem here? I'm at my wits end lol. Here is my Wifes build: Asus Prime z690-A Intel i5 13600k Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 5200mhz C40 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD Corsair RM1000e Power Supply Corsair H150i iCUE aio No GPU yet Thank you to anyone that can help me. I'm so lost after today, especially after the working PC no longer boots. I feel like I'm losing my mind haha. Kind regards, HutBunz *SOLVED In regards the first computer it was as simple as a bad DP cable. Booted fine off of an HDMI cable. Everything working as intended now. As for the second computer, I downloaded Cinebench and the CPU was only landing a score of 10,000. Far cry from 24,000ish. So I downloaded HWinfo and noticed the CPU was only drawing 120W but was absolutely pegged during stress testing. Checked connections but they were all good. Turns out the chipset firmware and intelME needed updating. After installing the updates, BOOM, pulling ~170W and scoring 24,000 in Cinebench and also, BAM, XMP enabled no problem. Only issue is now is the CPU absolutely does not like being overclocked, although I have been using the Asus AI feature. Might try updating to latest BiOS as it improves stability, or manually overclock or could just be a loss in silicon lottery. All that said, I'm happy I got it all figured out after awhile of troubleshooting and I hope this information can maybe help someone else down the line. HutBunz

I am a novice, I don't know anything, apologies for my ignorance, please treat me like a fool and explain things as if you were talking to a simpleton. Question 1 I was looking to buy Asrock Z790 Steel Legend Wifi. it says on Asrock website (link) it runs RAM memory Up to 6800+ MHz (OC), 4800 MHz Natively (also has some different number for DPC R which I after googling I still don't understand what they are, what is a channel and a rank, I wasn't sure, I want to buy RAM with 2 sticks of 16GB each, which rank and channel number apply to me?). I have seen in other websites selling this board some say up to 7000 some say 7200, is this because when the Asrock website was written the new memories that are 7200 werent out yet? And they just haven't updated the page? I want to buy DDR5 32GB 7200MHz, specifically, either Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5 2 Modules 7200 (CMH32GX5M2X7200C34), or G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 R 2 Modules 7200 (F5-7200J3445G16GX2-TZ5R) Would I be ok with either of these 2 RAM purchases combined with the Asrock Z790 Steel Legend Wifi motherboard? Question 2 If a motherboard were to run the 7200 natively, would it consume less power than one that has to be overclocked to run 7200? Or it is more or less same power but just have to adjust settings cause when the board was made those memory Hz weren't out yet? Would I be stressing it too much and reducing life expectancy overclocking it to 7200?

Okay I hate that I have to come here to ask this but it seems that my gpu isnt allowing me to OC it. Using both Precision X1 and MSI AB its not letting OC my new MSI - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 3X 12G OC, you'd think with OC in the name it wouldn't be giving me this many issues. I can change the values in both but it doesn't seem to change anything, even when pushing the system with Kombustor, I cannot change the Power % to higher than 100, and I don't think my fans are letting me change them either, I know this is probably some dumb mistake on my part LOLOLOL, but any advice and answers are appreciated. Thanks!

I got an 8 cores 16 threads coffee lake CPU in hand base 2.1 GHz boost 39-4.4 GHz. Obviously looks to be a mobile sample. The power budget is 45W. The main purpose is to get most out of this sample without exceeding the power limit (since it is a mobile CPU). I increased the vcore to 1.4v and pushed boosting to 4.6-5.1. that resulted in less multi core performance and more single threaded performance (Cr15 multi 1300>>1207, single 192>>216) now I am sure the CPU is going to perform better in single threaded applications aka: gaming, adobe photoshop... etc. The next step is tweaking the uncore ratio and here I got lost a bit and need help. If I increase the uncore ratio that would increase the power usage and because I am limited to 45W... I may get less performance in some cases? in single threaded applications OR...... the CPU would switch the core and uncore ratio automatically when power limited to achieve the maximum performance at the given power limit? I wanna know about coffee lake behaviour so I can guess better. Running benchmarks on different applications is gonna be very time consuming in my case as I am not prepared for that so a simple answer would save my time and be appreciated

Hey beginner OC’er here. Been fiddling around with the basic stuff for CPU overclocking in msi x570 tomahawk wifi. I managed to have it pretty stable with 4,7 ghz on ryzen 5700x. However id like to compliment it with some better RAM Speeds. I mean I built this thing so why not try and get the most juice out of it? I recently upgrade my ram from a pair of Corsair vengeance 2x8GB 3600 mhz cl18 with pair of Corsair vengeance 2x16GB 3600 mhz cl18. They’re as close to the same types of ram as I could get from the shop. Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18 BK DC (AMD optimized) - 32GB - CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18 Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18 BK DC (AMD optimized) - 16GB - CMK16GX4M2Z3600C18 After reading some of the basic stuff around it seems my setup is turned out to be a mix of two single rank sticks (2x8GB) and two dual rank sticks (2x16GB). I want to use them all together but wondering which setup would be best on my motherboard which is daisy chained. Currently I have them in pair where I have single ranked in A1-B1, and dual ranked in A2-B2. Seem to be stable with XMP profiles. What Is the best setup for performance and overclocking, would setting one dual rank and single rank together be better? Is there any hope to get these bumping up to 4000mhz with cl16? So far Ive managed to get 3800 mhz cl18 (same tightnings as factory) with the msi memory try it! while pretty unstable with gaming and vm, but everything else leads to a cmos reset. Havent tried to manual set it yet.

Hello guys, i whant to enable the power limit for my 11400f on the MSI b560m mortar, but i csn not find the setting through the BIOS. Can anyone help me plz

I have a 2600 OCd to 4GHz and i had never had any problems, but that was only with gaming, today i needed to use handbrake to convert a video and my cpu overheats and the system dies. I'm on a stock cooler, what should I do?

Hey guys is this normal? 4615 on a r7 3700x? I thought people were having trouble even hitting the rated clocks on the box. Are these numbers safe or should i check out my mob settings to make sure something isnt funky? Thanks

Hello everybody, I decided after 1 year and a half of buying my CPU and motherboard to OC them. I have as it says in the title a i7 7700k and a msi z270. When i run OCCT with default settings i am getting normal temps. 30 idle and max 70 when loading. At this point i imagine that my cooler is good enough to OC. I have a noctua nh-u12s and installed it yesterday so it is new. I also applied thermal paste from thermal grizzly made to OC. As you can immagine this is all new to me. After checking a lot of videos and posts i noticed that the i7 7700 is a "hot chip". So at this point i started the OC with 4.8ghz and 1.2v. I got errors on OCCT and temps going to 90 degres in the minute. After that i tried all the voltages from 1.2 to 1.35v until i got no errors on OCCT. This is what i get now : https://gyazo.com/4372fc39d86c5fda1ae4e8e153ca678b first question is : is it a decent OC that i did or is it bad? second question : in RealTempGT i reached LOG on all my cores which means thermal throttle right ? is it bad considering i m getting around 88c in OCCT when loading ( as you can see in the gyazo ) I feel like this is high temps for a 4.8ghz OC am i right ? My airflow is fine, i have 4 fans in my case including my noctua. Thank you for the futur answers,

Hello everybody, I just got a gigabytes geforce rtx 2070 super windforce oc 3x 8g yesterday. I am pretty new to this and wanted to do my first overclock GPU. So i decided to OC my RTX 2070 Super to see how far it can get and how much fps i can increase in games. i managed to get the core clock to +115 MHz and the memory clock to +820 MHz without crashing while playing for hours or testing. I have two questions. First : Is it a decent OC ? As i said i am new to this so i don't really know. Second : Are the temps high ? i am around 80c and spike to 84 sometimes as shown in the picture. In test with engine Heaven or games like COD Warzone. I don't know if it matters but i have a I7 7700k + MSI z270 carbon and 2x8 3200 XMP. Thanks for the futur answers,

Hey guys, I one problem I hope someone can help. I have a Rx 5500xt from msi (mech 4Gb) every time I try to change the core or memory clock and I press apply it goes back to normal. It shows me 2000mhz, when I change it to 2020 or more, press apply it goes back to 2000. However I can change my fan speeds or power limit. I tried to update drivers but still nothing, when I install the program from evga it won’t even open someone might know how to fix that? I’m really stuck on this one. 60796779764__F6F5C973-BA4D-4FEF-BB39-09C8EE4D7D89.MOV

Hey guys I have a msi rx 5500xt and I when I try to overclock, I can’t go over these settings(2000gpu clock & 3720 memory clock) if I go higher and press apply it goes back to normal. does anyone know how to fix that ? btw I can’t oc my cpu as well I can’t change from auto to manual... maybe that has something to do with the gpu idk

Hey guys I just can't figure this out here is my specs for info: 8086k delided (with thermal grizzly Conductonaut) Arctic silver 5 thermal paste used for heat sink MSI Z370i Gaming pro carbon ac Cooler Silverstone AR06 Case: Node 202 GPU: MSI GTX1080 Armor So I understand that I am cramming a high power cpu into a small case and temps will be high. I built the system originally in a NZXT H200 with a corsair H80v2 cooler and the cpu was OC'ed to 5ghz Vcore 1.3 no problems with thermals. After moving the system to the Node 202, I was noticing high idle temps with stock settings and an undervolt of -0.01 offset on the VCore however I was still getting 60C idle. I ordered some liquid metal and delided. It got to low 50ish idle. I made sure that the cpu cooler was properly mounted and the spread of the thermal paste seemed good. My CPU IHS is decently flat and I even delided again with no glue holding on the IHS for maximum contact and to make sure that it wasn't bad contact with the die. Since I was still getting idles of low 50C (ambient temps around 23) and the CPU wasn't even boosting, I tried to manually OC with 47x on the multiplier 42x ring 1.224 VCore, -2 AVX, LLC mode 6 and the CPU was stable at around the same temp (at most 5 C difference when completely idling) even though the CPU ran at a much high Vcore... (Stock voltage when idle is around 1.09-1.05). Max load temp Oced is around 89 while averaging high 70s and low 80s in Prime 95 with 1344 for both ftts. I am seriously out of ideas any help would be appreciated.

I have a ryzen 5 1600 AF with asus b450m-a mobo and a single stick of 8gb ram (G.skill Aegis F4-3000C16S-8GISB) and an rx 580. I first tried the XMP profile but the system kept rebooting so I tried to play with frequency and timings manually. I increased it from 2133 to 3000 and it didn't work. I tried increasing the voltage (1.4) and playing with the timing but no use I even tried to use 26xx frequency but couldn't. I also tried ryzen dram calculator safe values also to no use. It seems this thing just won't overclock. Any tips??

I recently bought a manufacturer refurbished Vega 64 reference card off ebay (for $205). I also bought a new Enermax Revolution DF 850 watt PSU at the same time (originally got a 750 watt version but returned it after seeing my issue, so this isn't a problem caused by a jank PSU). After installing both components, my PC will shut down during a load that spikes my GPU wattage draw. According this PSU calculator (https://outervision.com/b/cvy7mY), at max load i should only draw 747w. Anyone have any experience with something like this? Could this be a problem with my specific card? It works great until is pulls 250+ watts. I've tweaked the clocks, volts, and power limit to get it seemingly stable in the games it was crashing in before, but Folding@Home + youtube = crashed PC still. Obviously I could clock it down further, as well as my CPU, but I'd rather avoid that if I can. PC Components: Ryzen 5 2600X OC to 4.125 @ 1.4v DeepCool 120mm AIO 16 GB Ballstix sport RAM base 2400 OC to 3133 Gigabyte Gaming B350 MB 5 SSDs (4 sata, 1 NVME) 4 PCCooler RGB fans, 1 LED light strip Aisa horse PSU cable extensions Enermax 850w Revolution DF PSU Thanks!

Hi Linus Tech Tip'ers! So i built a Ryzen 9 3900x system for my friend, and now he wants overclock it! I have not overclock and do not know where to start! Maybe someone can share some overclocking setting (voltage, clock ratio etc). The target is 4.3-4.5 GHz! Maybe someone can share GPU overclocking too?! PC specs: CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x; MOBO: ASUS TFU X570-Plus; RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8GB), 3600 MHz, CL18, DDR4; CPU FAN: Corsair Hydro H100i Pro; GPU: ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2080 super; PSU: Seasonic FOCUS PX PSU 750W.

You know what i think LTT should make? An in depth Overclocking guide to AMD/Ryzen (or intel but eh) by Anthony

I installed A-Tuning but realized I didn't like it much and heard people had issues with their PCs because of it. I'm new to the PC and overclocking game so I want to make sure I'm not going to burn out my rig. I uninstalled the A-Tuning program so I just needed to know if by uninstalling it if it changed my settings back to what they were before I started screwing with it in the program. I changed it back and forth between the 3 settings and left it on the standard when I uninstalled it if that helps.