4690k help

[Dimetime35c]

okay so last night i OC my 4690k to 4.6Ghz. my settings were cpu multi 46 cpu base clock 101.5 and core cpu voltage 1.25. after running 3 cinebench test runs back to back i felt okay with the stability of the cpu. i then played WoW for over 3 hours with pretty heavy cpu loads. temps were stable never topping 50c. finished playing then set the pc to sleep mode and went to bed. this morning when i turned it on i had a black screen message waiting for me that said my oc settings had failed and my system was reverting to the default settings. what did i do wrong???? i cranked the settings back down to whats in the attached cpuz image thing. is it still going to crash on me or am i safe? any ideas as to why the old settings crashed? it ran fine and never once gave any warnings or temp spikes. any help or insite would be much appreciated!!!

[arronleeds]

the oc was not stable, games dont stress it like benchmarking tools do.

 

you dont need to mess with the base clock, all you do is the multiplier, my 4690k runs at 4.6ghz at 1.25v and for 4.8 requires 1.32v.

[arronleeds]

this is mine

 

[Dimetime35c]

then why didnt it crash when i was running cinebench??? i did 3 runs in the span of like 30 seconds and it never crashed on me. when i tried that with my 4.8oc it crashed on the second run instantly. it was stable between the runs and wasnt showing any signs of stress. im not understanding how it can be fine for 3+ hours of gaming then as soon as i put it to sleep with no load on it it crashes. can you tell me a stable 4.8 setting? i use an h100i cooler so im good on cooling. or would 4.7 be a safer bet to run it at?

[arronleeds]

then why didnt it crash when i was running cinebench??? i did 3 runs in the span of like 30 seconds and it never crashed on me. when i tried that with my 4.8oc it crashed on the second run instantly. it was stable between the runs and wasnt showing any signs of stress. im not understanding how it can be fine for 3+ hours of gaming then as soon as i put it to sleep with no load on it it crashes. can you tell me a stable 4.8 setting? i use an h100i cooler so im good on cooling. or would 4.7 be a safer bet to run it at?

youre supposed to stress test for atleast 2+ hours, most stress for 24hours, every cpu is different, not all will get to 4.8ghz. mine runs at 4.8ghz at 1.32v, but 4.8ghz wont benefit over 4.6ghz in most instances, why do you want to oc your cpu? you dont need to for gaming.

[Dimetime35c]

it actually does boost my frame rate by a very high margin in most games. also loads things faster and just runs faster overall. how do i do a 2+ hour stress test? i only have cinebench and its like a 1min run at the most. can you give me a link to a longer stress test? ive seen linus use a program but cant remember its name when they stress test on there benchmarking. just need a free one thats good.

[arronleeds]

you can use ones like occt or prime95 version 26.6, links below, if you do prime95 do the small ftts test and if you do occt use the linkpack test.

 

http://www.ocbase.com/

 

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504

[Dimetime35c]

you can use ones like occt or prime95 version 26.6, links below, if you do prime95 do the small ftts test and if you do occt use the linkpack test.

 

http://www.ocbase.com/

 

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504

 

which is better???? sorry if this is a dumb question. just new to ocing and benchmarking and want to make 100% sure im not killing my cards. also when i try and set my voltage to 1.3 it will pop up with a warning about how this voltage is to high and it doesnt like it. do i just ignore that sense im kinda going outta the spec anyways?

[arronleeds]

which is better???? sorry if this is a dumb question. just new to ocing and benchmarking and want to make 100% sure im not killing my cards. also when i try and set my voltage to 1.3 it will pop up with a warning about how this voltage is to high and it doesnt like it. do i just ignore that sense im kinda going outta the spec anyways?

none will kill your gpus, its a cpu benchmark you will be  doing mate, no gpu involved, people say dont run prime95 on haswell cpus but i do as it stresses it alot meaning if your cpu isnt stable it will show quicker.

 

if you have a realllllly good cpu it will run at 4.8ghz at under 1.3v but its very unlikely, try 1.32v then go lower.

[Dimetime35c]

okay cool so i just basically download, install and click run and itll do the rest? will prime95 do anything to the haswell chip is it more people dont like it as much? which is the easiest to use?

[arronleeds]

okay cool so i just basically download, install and click run and itll do the rest? will prime95 do anything to the haswell chip is it more people dont like it as much? which is the easiest to use?

download prime,   run it, click small ftts, test then see how it goes, people dont like prime95 because if you dont set a voltage, say you test at stock, it adds more voltage than it should, but if you overclock and set your voltage  it doesnt, people just say it gives too high temps when it doesnt unless your cooler is crap.

 

btw what cooler do you have?

[Dimetime35c]

download prime,   run it, click small ftts, test then see how it goes, people dont like prime95 because if you dont set a voltage, say you test at stock, it adds more voltage than it should, but if you overclock and set your voltage  it doesnt, people just say it gives too high temps when it doesnt unless your cooler is crap.

 

btw what cooler do you have?

 

okay ive got prime95 and ran something for 5 mins and it seemed fine. does it have some type of like graph or chart mode? or is the txt boxes all you get? im looking for something thats got the visual like readouts i can see. all i was able to see with prime was some txt boxes with the workers in it and no like temp or other info. it also keeps saying failed to load the help

[arronleeds]

for temp readings you need something like coretemp or msi afterburner.

[Dimetime35c]

for temp readings you need something like coretemp or msi afterburner.

 

o okay can cpuz work with it? and i just press it and leave it? like leave it for one hour then see whats good?

[arronleeds]

Cpu z doesn't read temps I don't believe.