CPU Voltage and Overclocking...

[bladegrasp00]

Hey guys, I'm not a hardcore overclocking guy, but I have overclocked most of my stuff when I normally have it...so for the most part i do know what I doing.

 

So here is a question for you guys...

 

1st, some history however.

 

Recently I upgraded my rig to a 4790K + KrakenX61 + GTX 980 + 2400Mhz Ripjaws RAM.  Upgraded from a i7 930 @ 3.4ghz from it's stock 2.8Ghz, 1333 OCZ Triple Channel RAM, GTX 580/AMD Radeon R9 280X varations.  To be honest, I don't remember what the voltages were on the 930 when I was overclocking it, but I do know, temps never went above 70. And it was with a ThermalTake NiC c5.

 

Anyway, recently I started delving into overclocking new board, after a week or so just running it at stocks.  Something strange occurred while I was dialing in a overclock.

 

My Motherboard is a GA-G1 Gigabyte Sniper z97.  I run most of my overclocking with just tweaking the rations and leaving everything else on auto.  Turns out I don't think I can do that on this board for this reason....

 

My motherboard thought it was a good idea to set the CPU voltage to a crazy 1.47 when I tweaked it to 4.7ghz without TurboBoost enabled.  That's.... retarded right?  WAAAAY to high isn't it.  Shouldn't you really not go much more higher than 1.3?

 

I intitated a burn on it, and the temp instantly got to 70c and froze up within a second or two.  So panicking I just turned the PC off, wait a minute or two, turned it back on, fired up BIOS, and reset board to defaults, got back into windows with a burn and was running at 51c at load for 20 minutes with a 1.27 volts on stock settings with turboboost back on running at it's native/stock 4.0/4.4 boost setting.

 

So why the hell did my board set the voltage so damn high...?

[BoredErica]

Hey guys, I'm not a hardcore overclocking guy, but I have overclocked most of my stuff when I normally have it...so for the most part i do know what I doing.

 

So here is a question for you guys...

 

1st, some history however.

 

Recently I upgraded my rig to a 4790K + KrakenX61 + GTX 980 + 2400Mhz Ripjaws RAM.  Upgraded from a i7 930 @ 3.4ghz from it's stock 2.8Ghz, 1333 OCZ Triple Channel RAM, GTX 580/AMD Radeon R9 280X varations.  To be honest, I don't remember what the voltages were on the 930 when I was overclocking it, but I do know, temps never went above 70. And it was with a ThermalTake NiC c5.

 

Anyway, recently I started delving into overclocking new board, after a week or so just running it at stocks.  Something strange occurred while I was dialing in a overclock.

 

My Motherboard is a GA-G1 Gigabyte Sniper z97.  I run most of my overclocking with just tweaking the rations and leaving everything else on auto.  Turns out I don't think I can do that on this board for this reason....

 

My motherboard thought it was a good idea to set the CPU voltage to a crazy 1.47 when I tweaked it to 4.7ghz without TurboBoost enabled.  That's.... retarded right?  WAAAAY to high isn't it.  Shouldn't you really not go much more higher than 1.3?

 

I intitated a burn on it, and the temp instantly got to 70c and froze up within a second or two.  So panicking I just turned the PC off, wait a minute or two, turned it back on, fired up BIOS, and reset board to defaults, got back into windows with a burn and was running at 51c at load for 20 minutes with a 1.27 volts on stock settings with turboboost back on running at it's native/stock 4.0/4.4 boost setting.

 

So why the hell did my board set the voltage so damn high...?

I would say adaptive voltage is the problem. Set it to manual.

There's a huge-ass Haswell guide in my siggy BTW. Good reading.