i9-9900k Issues

[xAchillies]

Hello all,

I just made a recent change to my PC and I've been having some gaming issues since.

I now have in my build as follows: ASUS Prime Z390-A, i9-9900k, RTX 3070, H100i AIO, 16 GB 3000Mhz DDR4 and a new 750 W Gold+ Efficiency PSU. Upgraded from an i5-8600k GTX 1070i. I had the i5 clocked about 5-5.1 Ghz without even trying to push it hard no problem. This i9 is giving me a hell of a time and seemingly its stable at about 4.9 @ 1.284 V, maxes about 4.6 AVX but it'll get super hot otherwise. For the most part temps stay under 50-60 while gaming, renderig, 70s-80s running prime95. I have the 3070 +150 Core Clock +1200 Mem Clock. I've never had issues with any other card overclocking so I don't believe this one is the issue here. As for the i9, I'm trying to decide if its a chip worth overclocking. Playing some games it only hits 50% usage at 4.8/4.9 ghz on a few cores its using. Default boost I believe is 5 Ghz on a couple cores which may help my gaming performance..unsure. I'm also having random crashes and visual distortions in games. I've crashed Vegas multiple times trying to render, my games on occasion will flicker or cause visual dragging and flashing (that's the best i can describe). It doesn't happen consistently, itll happen that whole game but ill restart the game and it'll be fine the next and this is across multiple games. Prime 95 wasn't crashing my PC at this point and Cinebench R15 runs normal too. At a total loss as to this overclock or what errors may be caused here.

Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[jwwagner25]

You might get more bites by doing something with that massive wall of text..

 

Aside from that, you need to isolate the issue. Revert all changes on either GPU or CPU, and go about your business. That will tell you which one is the problem. From there, dial back the overclock until things are back to normal. It really is that simple. No one can tell you what to do, whether it's worth it to OC your specific chip, etc. 

 

Best of luck, 

Jake

[Bobbysixjp]

Voltage is too low I think. With my 9900k I needed at least 1.35 V to hit 5 Ghz. In the end I decided that the extra heat wasn’t worth it and left it stock.

[xg32]

show powerdraw and temp under a full avx load, something like r20, i'm pretty sure prime will just crash

a h100i is around the bare minimum for a 9900k

ddu ur gpu drivers.

[xAchillies]

3 hours ago, xg32 said:

show powerdraw and temp under a full avx load, something like r20, i'm pretty sure prime will just crash

a h100i is around the bare minimum for a 9900k

ddu ur gpu drivers.

Results running R20: 4491 Score