OC help

[NasSeKa]

Hello all!
I'm new here but couldn't find much on the topic so i thought i would ask for help. I tried OC my cpu but seems to crash very often so i'm sure i'm doing something wrong.

Can someone help me OC it properly?

My setup :

CPU - i5 - 9600kf

CPU Cooler - Arctic Freezer 34 eSports DUO

MB - AS ROCK Z390 Phantom Gaming 4

RAM : 2 * CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DIMM KIT 16GB 3000 MhzXMP 2.0 SUPPORT CMK16GX4M2B3000C15

SSD :  KINGSTON NV1 M.2-2280 PCIe NVMe 500GB

[LIGISTX]

16 minutes ago, NasSeKa said:

Hello all!
I'm new here but couldn't find much on the topic so i thought i would ask for help. I tried OC my cpu but seems to crash very often so i'm sure i'm doing something wrong.

Can someone help me OC it properly?

My setup :

CPU - i5 - 9600kf

MB - AS ROCK Z390 Phantom Gaming 4

RAM : 2 * CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DIMM KIT 16GB CMK16GX4M2B3000C15

OCing takes a lot of work, learning, and patience. It’s going to be very difficult to get a full rundown of how to do it without a lot more information. But I mostly suggest reading forum guides on how to OC both your CPU, and with your specific mobo (or at least a very similar mobo). Understand how you go about increasing speeds, testing, increasing voltages to make it stable, checking temps and testing stability again, rinse and repeat until it’s stable at the speeds your shooting for assuming temps are under control and voltages are safe. 
 

Vdroop is also important to understand. A little vdroop is a good thing. 
 

It can take a week to get a fully stable, lowest voltage possible overclock. If your PC is crashing when OCed but not at stock speeds. It likely is your OC settings, either too much GHz, not enough voltage, or to high temps (or all three, or only 2 of the 3). Also VCCIO or system agent voltages may need some tweaking. OR your CPU can’t run at your rams XMP speeds with a high core clock, which would require VCCIO or system agent tweaks if even possible. What speed is your RAM? Is XMP set?

 

OCing these days can be easy, YouTube videos certainly make it look easy. But there is a lot more to it…. And it takes a while to fully master. Take the time to read through guides and watch videos specific to your CPU and mobo. I have been OCing for over 15 years, and when I get a new platform (like when I went from a 9900k to a 10700k) I spent about a week reading forum guides and watching videos learning the nuances and changes even just from 9900k to 10700k….

[NasSeKa]

10 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

OCing takes a lot of work, learning, and patience. It’s going to be very difficult to get a full rundown of how to do it without a lot more information. But I mostly suggest reading forum guides on how to OC both your CPU, and with your specific mobo (or at least a very similar mobo). Understand how you go about increasing speeds, testing, increasing voltages to make it stable, checking temps and testing stability again, rinse and repeat until it’s stable at the speeds your shooting for assuming temps are under control and voltages are safe. 
 

Vdroop is also important to understand. A little vdroop is a good thing. 
 

It can take a week to get a fully stable, lowest voltage possible overclock. If your PC is crashing when OCed but not at stock speeds. It likely is your OC settings, either too much GHz, not enough voltage, or to high temps (or all three, or only 2 of the 3). Also VCCIO or system agent voltages may need some tweaking. OR your CPU can’t run at your rams XMP speeds with a high core clock, which would require VCCIO or system agent tweaks if even possible. What speed is your RAM? Is XMP set?

 

OCing these days can be easy, YouTube videos certainly make it look easy. But there is a lot more to it…. And it takes a while to fully master. Take the time to read through guides and watch videos specific to your CPU and mobo. I have been OCing for over 15 years, and when I get a new platform (like when I went from a 9900k to a 10700k) I spent about a week reading forum guides and watching videos learning the nuances and changes even just from 9900k to 10700k….

Thank you for the answer, it's 3000Mhz, XMP 2.0 supported. Yesterday I downgraded to 4.7 on CPU and RAM to 2800 and seems to run kinda stable(Still didn't crash xD) but sometimes i get some freezes on the screen and i couldn't say I overloaded it too much at that time tbh.

[BetteBalterZen]

Just now, NasSeKa said:

Thank you for the answer, it's 3000Mhz, XMP 2.0 supported. Yesterday I downgraded to 4.7 on CPU and RAM to 2800 and seems to run kinda stable(Still didn't crash xD) but sometimes i get some freezes on the screen and i couldn't say I overloaded it too much at that time tbh.

If you are unsure about what settings you might have applied or what exactly crashes your PC, I'd suggest clearing CMOS, enabling XMP, and then start again with experiementing with OCing your CPU, so you're back to "basics" and have a clear understanding on what exactly is crashing your system. 

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, NasSeKa said:

Thank you for the answer, it's 3000Mhz, XMP 2.0 supported. Yesterday I downgraded to 4.7 on CPU and RAM to 2800 and seems to run kinda stable(Still didn't crash xD) but sometimes i get some freezes on the screen and i couldn't say I overloaded it too much at that time tbh.

It doesn’t necessarily take a heavy load to make it crash. If voltages are not correct and vdroop is not enough, transient loads can cause crashing. There is a lot to overclocking….

 

I would reset defaults, apply XMP, and try and learn a lot more about overclocking and what settings need adjusting. 3000mhz is pretty easy for CPU’s to run, so it likely is fine at 3000mhz. Just need to dial in the CPU OC and voltages to get it stable. And make sure you stress test with something like AIDA64 for at least 10 hours is my recommendation.