Overclocking 3770k halp

thepurplesquares · June 11, 2013

so ive had my 3770k running stable at 4.4 ghz for the past few months and i decided to oc it a bit more just out of curiosity. but no matter what voltage or ratio i input, the system wont ever clock above 4.4Ghz. it doesn't BSOD, it just wont show it any higher when i go into cpuz after booting up. im currently at 1.33 volts and the processor still wont show any higher than 4.4. is there something wrong with my chip or am i missing something in the bois? i have a sabertooth z77 motherboard.

Jackbe · June 11, 2013

I have the same motherboard and CPU as you. When I got the motherboard and tried to overclock, it wouldn't let me go very far at all. I searched around and found that I should update the BIOS. Go to the asus website and look up the sabertooth z77 and download the latest BIOS. Put the file on a memory stick and go into the BIOS and update it. Make sure you do NOT remove the usb stick or you may kill your BIOS, although this board does have 2 BIOSs that you can flip between.

After I updated it I managed a stable overclock on my 3770K at 4.5GHz at 1.23V in prime95. I have it on offset so it returns to a lower voltage when it is not under load.

Good luck :D

P.S. You also need to understand that all chips will overclock differently, I was lucky with mine, it runs cool and at a low voltage. You may not have been so lucky unfortunately.

d33g33 · June 11, 2013

I 2nd the BIOS issue, I had the same issue. I went back to an older version of the BIOS but updating or reapplying the same version has worked for a lot of people as well.

P.S. I don't have the best chip and had to run 1.344v for a 4.6ghz OC (I also have 3770k and z77 Sabertooth)

Cheers,

DeeG

thepurplesquares · June 12, 2013

that's the issue ive seem to come up with also. my cpu was stable at 4.5 and 1.232V earlier in the year but i knocked it down to 4.4 because the temps were a bit hot for my hyper 212. now that i have an h100i i decided to put it back up and it just wont indicate higher than 4.4. i also encountered a problem this morning that my bios splash screen isn't showing up in general, and if i hit the delete key while booting nothing will show up and the computer will just idle indefinitely. i think later tonight im going to try to reset my bios and then update it, because this is starting to get a bit weird.