Overclocking Problem

[Latro]

Okay so I've had this ongoing problem for a long time now, I have a i7 6800k which I purchased as an overclock bundle from scan a while back, this overclocked to 4.2Ghz. now I don't exactly know what the cause is but now I can't overclock the CPU at all it caps at 3.6Ghz no matter what I do. Now I did send it back to scan and they tested it and got it to work fine but I try it on my system and have no joy. Because they only tested the motherboard CPU and ram I have a suspicion its the power supply as I am also running a rtx 2080ti and my power supply is old. Appreciate any help and suggestions.

[Stormseeker9]

12 minutes ago, Latro said:

Okay so I've had this ongoing problem for a long time now, I have a i7 6800k which I purchased as an overclock bundle from scan a while back, this overclocked to 4.2Ghz. now I don't exactly know what the cause is but now I can't overclock the CPU at all it caps at 3.6Ghz no matter what I do. Now I did send it back to scan and they tested it and got it to work fine but I try it on my system and have no joy. Because they only tested the motherboard CPU and ram I have a suspicion its the power supply as I am also running a rtx 2080ti and my power supply is old. Appreciate any help and suggestions.

Could well be your psu. What exact model is it you have currently ?

[Roschlynn Dsouza]

25 minutes ago, Latro said:

Okay so I've had this ongoing problem for a long time now, I have a i7 6800k which I purchased as an overclock bundle from scan a while back, this overclocked to 4.2Ghz. now I don't exactly know what the cause is but now I can't overclock the CPU at all it caps at 3.6Ghz no matter what I do. Now I did send it back to scan and they tested it and got it to work fine but I try it on my system and have no joy. Because they only tested the motherboard CPU and ram I have a suspicion its the power supply as I am also running a rtx 2080ti and my power supply is old. Appreciate any help and suggestions.

Might be a PSU fault. It might be not providing enough power to the CPU for the overclock to be successful

[Latro]

On 5/18/2019 at 1:09 PM, Stormseeker9 said:

Could well be your psu. What exact model is it you have currently ?

i have a corsair cx600m

[Latro]

On 5/18/2019 at 1:22 PM, Roschlynn Dsouza said:

Might be a PSU fault. It might be not providing enough power to the CPU for the overclock to be successful

thats what i thought i had a look around on other posts and other people have suggested a more up to date psu for similar builds to mine

[unclewebb]

As far as I know, a recent Windows update disabled overclocking on the 6800K.  Do some Google research before investing in a new power supply.  

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/9ss5oi/i7_6800k_oc_not_applying_in_windows_anymore/

[Latro]

11 hours ago, unclewebb said:

As far as I know, a recent Windows update disabled overclocking on the 6800K.  Do some Google research before investing in a new power supply.  

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/9ss5oi/i7_6800k_oc_not_applying_in_windows_anymore/

Thank you I've done some digging around seems all the fixes are short term fixes which is a shame