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Hey guys, I recently decided to upgrade my system, so I bought motherboard, memory, m.2 nvme ssd and used cpu. Everything seems to be working well, but I can't enable XMP on my new memory. Everytime I play with the frequencies or timings I get blue screen or memory errors. My hardware: CPU: Ryzen 3900XT (Used) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4-RAM 3600 MHz 2x 16 GB 64GB in total (Brand new) Motherboard: MSI MEG B550 UNIFY Gaming Motherboard ATX-AMD AM4 Ryzen 5000 Ready (Brand new) SSD: Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD (Brand new) GPU: MSI ARMOR GTX 1060 (From old system) PSU: Corsair RM750 (From old system) Cooler: AIO Corsair H100i V2 (From old system) Things I tried to fix this problem: Update BIOS. Tried 2 different BIOS versions. Tried to use XMP1 and XMP2 profiles. Tried to manualy tune the memory using DRAM calculator. System didn't boot after that, had to use CMOS Tried to lower the frequency, I could boot at 3200Mhz but the system wasn't stable. Memtest showed some errors. Is it normal that XMP profiles doesn't work? Do I need to buy better memory or is it my motherboard causing all those problems? Thanks for your help! References:

Hello, for sure it's not the smallest desktop ever done, but it's pretty small ...so I put together a Raspberri pi 4b 8gb (overclocked) with an ICE Tower cooler and an RGB OLED 1.5 inch Display (128 x 128 pixel). I designed the case in Moi3D and printed with a PRUSA i3 MKs. As a prototype I'm pretty happy with the result even if the finishing of the print is not super amazing, I'm actually investigating to find ways to get a perfect finishing looking quality of the prints (not that easy with a filament printer). Hope you like it, let me know if you have questions. Cheers

I want to overclock my ram, I got HyperX Predator DDR4 with i7 7700k and ASUS z270e board. I want my ram to run at 3600 Mhz, I got the timings that I'll have to enter manually in the BIOS but there is one thing missing in the bios which is the RAS# Precharge time, it got CL, tRCD and then directly tRAS skipping tRP in between, I have spent hours finding where to enter the precharge timing value but couldn't find it anywhere, the timing I have to enter is 17-19-19 but I cant find where to enter the third value in because it isn't there in DRAM timing control. Please help me. I have attached a screenshot I took from a YouTube video, this is exactly how mine looks. It got CAS# Latency (CL), RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) and then tRAS cycler time and no RAS# Precharge (tRP)

hello am here because i have a fx 8300 and I bought a gtx 1050 ti thinking i will be ok with this cpu and gpu without bottleneck and i was playing fallout 4 and the game stars bottleneking i have a amd stock cooler and so i think i cant put on turbo clock or overclock someone knows a good and cheap stock cooler to overclock ?

Hello Overclockers. I have an issue with my overclocking and have run into a problem. I have seen other threads which have been solved but their solutions has not worked with mine. Well, I have an i5 6600k cooled by an evo 212. With the core volts set to 1.2 it is stable at 4,2Ghz. I can also make it run stable at 4.3Ghz if I increase to 1.24 volts. If I go for 4.4Ghz I need to increase voltage to 1.28 and this is here the odd thing starts. The multiplier starts fluctuating between 44 and 42 (effectively 4.4 and 4.2ghz). If I further increase voltage to 1.30 the fluctuation increases to be between 44 and 38. If I dial back the overclock to 4.3Ghz and let the volts be at 1.28 it is still unstable and fluctuates between 43 and 42. I have tried disabling all kinds of power saving functions, speedstep, etc. I have also made sure that no power settings in windows has been enabled. The temperatures are max 62 degrees, so I don't imagine it is thermal throttling. The TDP at 95w, only about 82 watts are used, so I don't imagine that is the issue either. The problem seem to occur independently of the frequency but solely dependent on the voltage. I am satisfied with my 4.3ghz overclock, but I am simply curious to learn what is happening:).

***UPDATE!*** THIS MAY NOT BE SAFE! After some research I found a few threads on the Intel and Overclockers.net forums where there is discussion on whether the temp drops are real or not. According to some, by dropping the VCCPLL OC voltage skews the temperature readouts. So it could be that it's the thermal probes that are giving lower than actual reads. Others have indicated that the temps are real but as of this moment there's no straight answer on this. I've gone back to my previous settings till there's confirmation of what's going on. Link to Intel forum thread: https://communities.intel.com/thread/112262 Overclockers.net thread: http://www.overclock.net/t/1621111/i7-7700k-temps-vs-ram-speed-on-z270-mainboard If anyone has any input (or straight answer) it would be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original post: I'm sure there are tons of you in this forum that already know this, but I just found out about it and it blew my mind! As you all know, the 7700k is a toasty chip. In order to get a stable OC at 4.8GHZ (with no AVX offset), I had to push the Vcore to 1.3V. With these settings my max temp would hit 90c in Realbench (23c ambient temp). It made me uncomfortable. I found a setting called VCCPLL OC in my Z270 Gigabyte board, the default was 1.25V. I dropped it to 1.15V and stress tested again with Realbench (again 23c ambient). Temps maxed out at 80c! That's a 10c difference! What the hell?! I stressed tested with Realbench for two hours and another two hours of Prime 95 (26.6). Stable. So now I can push it to 2.9GHZ (AVX offset of 1) with 1.31V and it maxes out at 85c, go figure! When I get home tonight, I'll try dropping the voltage some more and see if it remains stable.

Hi, I have tried to OC my ram but I can't make it work. I'm using 2x8go of LPX 3000mhz from Corsair with a Ryzen 1500x and a B350 gaming 3 from gigabyte. In the bios it's by default at 2133. When I enable XMP, it goes up to 29.66 mult and 1.35v. I can't find the good timing to make it stable. Since I update my MB bios to F9d i can make my PC boot, but after a minute or two it crash... Anyone knows the right timing for this MB/RAM combo? Is there any other update that I need to do? Unsolvable incompatibility? Bad silicon? Thx for your help!!!!

Hey , this might be a dumb question , but how do I change the voltage when overclocking a graphics card , as far as I can see afterburner only allows you to change core voltage (%) and dragging the slider up doesnt change much. How do I change the actual voltage (ie. 1.2mv to 1.3) and in what intervals should I change it when I find out how

Hey guys,I have been trying to get my i7 6700k to 5GHZ but I'm stuck at 4.8GHZ it just doesn't wanan go up every time I try 4.9 it crashes in a stress test I have It delidded and at 4.8 with 1.340 and cache at 4.5 and with my cooling solution it does't go above 70-75 degrees celcius.Does anyone have any advice for me? I dont really care that much about performace I just want to get there.(btw in the photo the cpu is under stress)(For the validation:https://valid.x86.fr/spdhjp) Thanks!

So I have an i5 8600k and i was wondering if I could overclock to an extent. currently at 90-100% load it will run at 58-62 degrees Celsius, and this is at 4.1 GHz. I would possibly want to overclock to around 4.6GHz. I have a Cryorig h7 CPU cooler and this is all on a MSI Z370-a pro. If anyone could get back to me that would be awesome

Hey guys, I have a 7700k that i use for gaming, recordinng, streaming, editing well, making gaming videos. i have already delided, put conductnaut liquid metal, lapped the IHS and used kryonaut thermal paste with a 240mm aio(that i plan to replace one day for a full hard tubing watercooling system) and i wanted to take it to the next level so i bought a direct die guard but i taught about the video of der8auer who lapped his die of his cpu but he said he didn't know what could be the long therm problem associated with that. is there anyone who already tried it for a real day to day use not just a bench that you build for a week. did you see anything after a long period of use(like 1-2years) have you got any trouble with it? anything i should know before buying all the tools needed? p.s. i just want my computer to be as much over the top of what a normal setup would be, this is my thing ? Link if the video:

Alright so here’s the case I just built my first pc Ryzen 2700xRtx 2070 system In nzxt h500 caseI’m using the stock cooler right now, but I’m looking to OC my cpu soon, so I am looking to put in a liquid cooler My case can have one fan in back 120One top 140 and up to 240 in the front Back and top are exhaust, so can I just put a 240mm liquid cooler in the front and not have an intake, or should I get a 140 mm liquid cooler for top and put one intake in the front Or should change the back fan to an intakeWhat should I do?

Hi im thinking on doing this to my gpu, but im worried about if its safe for 24/7 or notI know that liquid metal is going to damage my card, so i want to try soldering tin on the 0M5-0M2=R002-R005 shuntsDo i have to solder both? or i can do on one instead? what is the difference in them? Someone made that of this way?I saw a lot of ways of doing this like, soldering resistors to the voltage chip controller, but seems hard to do and i dont want to break my gpuSo thanks for every advice and sorry for my bad english, this is not my native languageMy current oc settings are 2050mhz max on core and 8858 on mem, on afterburner my voltage is everytime my limitant

Hey guys , I just did my first manual over clock on my aorus 2070super ( boost clock 1905 MHz ) and was able to squeeze out an extra +50 core clock so far with no extra voltage. However in Kombustor after a few minutes or so I’m reaching about 70-71c. I’m ready to except this as a win and call it a day considering the temperature Limit with the slider all the way is 88c but I wanted to hear it from you fine experts. After all I want this card to last at least the four years it’s warranted for. Thanks in advance for any help.

so i was running without oc for past 2 years and decided to oc on medium level, got my i7 6700k stable 4.5ghz with 1.320v on maximus 8 hero motherboard with LLC level 5, tried 4.6ghz but voltage kept on rising to 1.35v with no good results and i gave up tried 4.7ghz and it kept on crashing aida 64 stability test even with 1.38v, i guess i did not win in ''silicon lottery'' this time since my cpu is picky after 4.5ghz so my question is as follows is it safe to run 4.5ghz at 1.320v all time, even at idle it is full speed

I am thinking off building a custom loop for a 1080ti and a 8700k or 2700x and was just wondering how far i would be able to push one of those cpu's. I am just wondering which cpu will give me the better performance pushed to its limits with 2 480mm radiators. Cheers

Hello guys. I would like to ask for help. Recently I bought I7 8700K and MSI z370 krait gaming motherboard. I am trying to overclock this chip but I am not able to get it stable after passing 4.8 Ghz. Even for 4.8 Ghz I have to use higher voltage. I also bought Alphacool Eisbear 420mm AIO but it is not helping as I have to use 1.4 volts for 5.0 Ghz - but still not able to pass Prime 95 and temperatures are really high. Cinebench is working fine though.... And by higher voltage I compared it to other people on internet and they used 1.24-1.26 volts for 4.8 Ghz, but I have to use at least 1.32. So if you have any ideas please reply to this Topic! Thank you guys.

I previously was having trouble keeping my 7700k cool without having my computer sound like a Boeing 767 got the double fan artic freezer 33 and I dont know what I'm doing wrong if anything I'm am seeing people getting a little higher temps then mine when the overclock to 4.8 the cooler is installed properly but could the cold plate need to be adjusted I get around mid 60s when playing and the fans sound ok

So I'm trying to OC my cpu in a.... not the most typical fashion... Why you ask? Why Not? also I saw on Reddit someone posted they got an extra 10% FPS jump using this method. So here is what i want to do. Rather than overclocing my cpu by adjusting the base clock multiplier i want to try raising the reference clock. Before i get into too much more detail here is my parts list > http://pcpartpicker.com/list/nrTdCy < although technically my graphics card is Nividia branded and not EVGA branded but that honestly shouldn't make a difference. now for what I am attempting to achieve. 1. a reference clock of 112.5 MHz with a base clock multiplier of 40 for an over all base clock of 4.5 GHz. (A speed that is well established to be a good overclock for a 6700k using other methods) 2. Ideally a turbo clock multiplier of 44 for a turbo clock of 5 GHz. (while harder to achieve not out of the realm of possibility.) 3. some sort of system stability. (Yeah this one is hard I'm aware) 4. Not to fry my cpu. (Yeah technically intel lets me buy 2 cpus a year pretty cheap but I can't get another one from them until some time this fall and I was planning to use that opportunity to maybe try out a Broadwell-E not replace my skylake.) now for the problem. from what I can tell this method seems to cause some system instability I have gotten to 104 MHz reference clock fairly easily; However when i got to about 105 MHz (with the BC multiplier of 40) even with the voltage turned up i get some instability and I cant seem to get anywhere close to 112.5! Now for some guidelines about responses. I'm not a stickler about things like double posting or anything sometimes i forget and even do it myself but I would appreciate it if we could stay semi on topic and avoid comments like "this is stupid its a lot of risk to your cpu for very little benefit". I am aware this is not the best safest way to do things... I just kinda want to do it because i can. Also I ask you include as much information about your solution as possible voltage, reference clock, base clock, turbo clock, multipliers, even stuff like wattage and the color or your mobo are welcome (who knows maybe having the color purple in your build helps or something. Cant rule it out!). Debate is encouraged but please don't argue just to argue and please try to avoid a prolonged argument about facts... Opinions and ideas are a good thing but bickering over whether 1+1 = 2 or 3 is just spammy and you should just agree to disagree at that point. Oh also i like to read things and respond from my phone when i'm not at home so don't make fun of all the typos okay

Hi i don't which cpu cooler can fit my case here is the link http://www.amazon.in/Cooler-Master-CMP-FRONT-120MM/dp/B00DC29ED2 can you guys suggest a cooler that can fit my case and overclock a i5 6600k

Im trying to overclock a g1 980. It doesn't give any crashes what the card does is limiting the core clock to 535mhz and my valley benchmark fps is around 30's before the oc its 130's.the only way to reset is to restart the pc. Can someone help me with this.

Dear TechGeeks , I recently bought a new laptop which is the Asus ROG G751JT and i really want to overclock the CPU which is a Intel® Core™ i7 4710HQ Processor. The CPU runs @ 2.00GHz which i find really slow.. If someone has experience on how to properly overclock a laptop i need your tips. More Specs: http://valid.x86.fr/miywzm Thanks! -HOXSEC

Hardware MB: MSI z170a gaming M3 CPU: Intel i5 6600k CPU: cooler: Corsair H100iGTX VGA: MSI GTX 970 Ram: 16 GB 2x8GB G Skill ddr4 (can get exact if needed) PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1 80+ GOLD, 650W Continuous Power, Fully Modular Storage: 250 PNY CS1211 SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD, 500 GB Seagate HDD OS win 10 64bit Hello, I am a bit new to overclocking and have some questions and I believe I have an issue. So I have been able to overclock my CPU to 4.7 GHz without changing anything setting except for the clock speed I have not touched the voltage or any other setting except for enabling XMP and setting the ram o run at 3200 MHz.below is a screen cap of my OC settings. As far as I can tell its running stable I have run prime 95 as well as some other CPU stress testing software, I get no crashes so the PC itself seems to run fine. Now where my issue comes in when I am running the CPU at max with prime 95 it jumps up to 4.7 like it should but does not stay there. it will bounce between 4.66 and 4.7. I tried dialing the OC back a bit but it does the same thing @ 4.5 is will bounce between 4.45 and 4.5. First, off is this normal or should it run at 4.7 the whole time it's maxed out? Is this a voltage issue? Any help would be great. below are two more screen caps show the different clock speed. Both CPU-z and task manager bounce but they both show different

hello there im currently in the process of trying to get the most out of my i7 4790k i cant tell if i just got a bad pick or its another component that is causing instability making it bluescreens i am able to run more than stable at 4.6ghz @1.275v with no problems i tried to push it up to 4.7ghz @ 1.285v and after 10-12 mins on aida is blue screened the tempatures were max at 69c-70c as i am using a dark rock pro 3 so i know that was not the problem i know it was not my psu as i have a corsair rm650x is it possible that its my mobo (asus z87-a) stopping me from achieving higher results ive looked at other people results and they can push alot less volts into there cpu without any problems and still get higher clock speeds should i just go to 1.3v and try get to most out of that or should i just stick with what i got thank you

Please bear with me on this, I'm referring to Intel line of processors/CPU, Nowadays, you have to pay more to get an unlocked version of the CPU, which will cost you more money. You have to pay for Z-chipset motherboards to be able to overclock things, which also in the end costing more money. You have to buy an adequate aftermarket cooler to get a decent OC, which also in the end costing more money. You *probably* need to have more headroom in your PSU to OC, which *probably* in the end costing more money as well. Since you have to pay more to OC your CPU, and not to mention you better to pair it with an adequate GPU to keep up with the CPU, doesn't it actually cancel out the "free performance upgrade" of things? Is the overclocking part now more of a hobby (beside the actual performance gain ofc) ? It's probably still valid on high-end workstations, where you need a little extra performance gain without having to spend on a much more expensive CPUs and where the cost of the extra gimmicks can actually be justified.. -> your thoughts ? Yes you are still able to get free performance gains on AMD chips since most of them are unlocked, but you'd probably spend more on some aftermarket cooler as well to get more juice, and yet again costing more money. And yes you still get performance gains on OC'ing GPU, but in this case I'm referring to CPUs (Intel's).. Thoughts ? Do you think OCing to get "free performance upgrade" argument still valid ?