Overclocking errors and help

[SolarpandaS]

So I've been overclocking my 4670k for a long time, but never on this motherboard (I think). My last motherboard had some fancy auto-voltage thing, so I never had to worry about my voltage into the cpu. This time around, I've gotten a stable overclock at 4.15 (4.2 in bios) GHz with a voltage of around 1.200v. I don't have enough experience to know if this is a good voltage to be running the cpu at. Also, as soon as I try going for 4.3 in the bios I start getting instabillity, and I'm not sure if it's because of the voltage.

 

Any tips?

[Skiiwee29]

4 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

So I've been overclocking my 4670k for a long time, but never on this motherboard (I think). My last motherboard had some fancy auto-voltage thing, so I never had to worry about my voltage into the cpu. This time around, I've gotten a stable overclock at 4.15 (4.2 in bios) GHz with a voltage of around 1.200v. I don't have enough experience to know if this is a good voltage to be running the cpu at. Also, as soon as I try going for 4.3 in the bios I start getting instabillity, and I'm not sure if it's because of the voltage.

 

Any tips?

You are fine with Voltage until you get above 1.3v then it starts getting Iffy and could potentially damage the chip and/or board. 

[Imakuni]

3 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

Also, as soon as I try going for 4.3 in the bios I start getting instabillity, and I'm not sure if it's because of the voltage.

Most likely, your chip can't do 4.3 at 1.2v. I'd say that's pretty normal. Either increase your voltage if cooling allows or leave it at that and don't rry pushing any higher. It's your choice.

[SolarpandaS]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Most likely, your chip can't do 4.3 at 1.2v. I'd say that's pretty normal. Either increase your voltage if cooling allows or leave it at that and don't rry pushing any higher. It's your choice.

 

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

You are fine with Voltage until you get above 1.3v then it starts getting Iffy and could potentially damage the chip and/or board. 

So I'm 50% sure that my 3rd core is already damaged/weaker than the others, because when I try to play games at higher settings such as GTA5 or FarCry4, my entire computer will freeze unless I set the affinity to all cores but the 3rd... Any thoughts on that? I will try pushing it up to 4.5 at 2.3, if you guys agree - I don't know voltage 

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

 

So I'm 50% sure that my 3rd core is already damaged/weaker than the others, because when I try to play games at higher settings such as GTA5 or FarCry4, my entire computer will freeze unless I set the affinity to all cores but the 3rd... Any thoughts on that? I will try pushing it up to 4.5 at 2.3, if you guys agree - I don't know voltage 

NOOOOOO not 2.3... I really hope that was a typo....

[Imakuni]

2 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

 

So I'm 50% sure that my 3rd core is already damaged/weaker than the others, because when I try to play games at higher settings such as GTA5 or FarCry4, my entire computer will freeze unless I set the affinity to all cores but the 3rd... Any thoughts on that? I will try pushing it up to 4.5 at 2.3, if you guys agree - I don't know voltage 

DO NOT GO PAST 1,3V ON THAT CPU. Unless you want to start a campfire in your PC (make sure you film it when it happens).

 

But anyway. Are you crashing with the 4.2 at 1.2v?

[SolarpandaS]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

NOOOOOO not 2.3... I really hope that was a typo....

yup I meant 1.3  see I told you IDK voltage

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, SolarpandaS said:

yup I meant 1.3  see I told you IDK voltage

Which motherboard do you have?

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

yup I meant 1.3  see I told you IDK voltage

 

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Which motherboard do you have?

And what is your cooling solution for your CPU. 

[SolarpandaS]

1 minute ago, Imakuni said:

DO NOT GO PAST 1,3V ON THAT CPU. Unless you want to start a campfire in your PC (make sure you film it when it happens).

 

But anyway. Are you crashing with the 4.2 at 1.2v?

4.2 is working fine, but when I tried 4.3 on 1.2 my computer crashed on me. So if I head up to 1.3, what do you think can I push my clock up to (or should i just move it up slowly instead of starting high and moving down)? On my last computer, I SOMEHOW managed to get 6 GHz STABLE... Possibly what damaged the 3rd core

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

4.2 is working fine, but when I tried 4.3 on 1.2 my computer crashed on me. So if I head up to 1.3, what do you think can I push my clock up to (or should i just move it up slowly instead of starting high and moving down)? On my last computer, I SOMEHOW managed to get 6 GHz STABLE... Possibly what damaged the 3rd core

Dont go to 1.3 right away, try like 1.215v and increment .005 from there on the voltage to test.

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, SolarpandaS said:

4.2 is working fine, but when I tried 4.3 on 1.2 my computer crashed on me. So if I head up to 1.3, what do you think can I push my clock up to (or should i just move it up slowly instead of starting high and moving down)? On my last computer, I SOMEHOW managed to get 6 GHz STABLE... Possibly what damaged the 3rd core

Don't instantly go to 1.3. Slowly increment it by a notch at a time and stress to see if your cooler can handle the pressure. Once temps touch the 80, stop increasing voltage and up the multiplier as far as you can.

[SolarpandaS]

Off the top of my head I believe its a Gigabyte gaming MX5 something or the other... I'll have to check. I'm running air cooled on a coolermaster setup (I'm sorry I can't be more specific, I completely forgot all of that)

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

Off the top of my head I believe its a Gigabyte gaming MX5 something or the other... I'll have to check. I'm running air cooled on a coolermaster setup (I'm sorry I can't be more specific, I completely forgot all of that)

is it a hyper evo 212?

[SolarpandaS]

9 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

is it a hyper evo 212?

No, I was looking at that but it ended up being too tall for my case (which was why I had to give up on the twin frozr as well ) it's some other, slimmer one, but I believe it has a larger fan.

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

No, I was looking at that but it ended up being too tall for my case (which was why I had to give up on the twin frozr as well ) it's some other, slimmer one, but I believe it has a larger fan.

MMMK, So what you want to do is once you can boot into windows after a step up stable, download Aida64 and run the test on the CPU for about 10 minutes, if it doesnt crash then you are good and stable. Then try and keep pushing it until you reach what you feel you are comfortable with on Temps as long as you dont go above 1.3v. 

[Imakuni]

5 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

download Aida64 and run the test on the CPU for about 10 minutes, if it doesnt crash then you are good and stable.

AIDA64 is potato. That test is rather easy to pass, especially for a mere 10 min. Get Prime95 (or even just play some games for hours if you feel like it), it would do better.

[SolarpandaS]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

AIDA64 is potato. That test is rather easy to pass, especially for a mere 10 min. Get Prime95 (or even just play some games for hours if you feel like it), it would do better.

playing games for hours is what I do best

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

AIDA64 is potato. That test is rather easy to pass, especially for a mere 10 min. Get Prime95 (or even just play some games for hours if you feel like it), it would do better.

prime 95 is horrible. It will give him unrealistic results. Aida64 is much closer to what you would get under normal loads as a gamer. 

[Imakuni]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

prime 95 is horrible. It will give him unrealistic results. Aida64 is much closer to what you would get under normal loads as a gamer. 

Well, at least it's an actual stress test. It's rather easy to pass AIDA and still have your OC crash as soon as your throw a game, which is something that rarely hapens if you use P95. While I agree that it isn't a perfect gaming representation, P95 is far from being horrible.

[SolarpandaS]

3 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Well, at least it's an actual stress test. It's rather easy to pass AIDA and still have your OC crash as soon as your throw a game, which is something that rarely hapens if you use P95. While I agree that it isn't a perfect gaming representation, P95 is far from being horrible.

 

8 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

prime 95 is horrible. It will give him unrealistic results. Aida64 is much closer to what you would get under normal loads as a gamer. 

Can I just do both? that seems like it would work splendid

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, SolarpandaS said:

Can I just do both? that seems like it would work splendid

If you want to, you can do it, yeah.

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, SolarpandaS said:

 

Can I just do both? that seems like it would work splendid

You can, but will likely see very high temps on P95 compared to Aida64 and may actually hit your TJ Max where your PC may shut down abruptly due to heat. 

[Imakuni]

10 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

You can, but will likely see very high temps on P95 compared to Aida64 and may actually hit your TJ Max where your PC may shut down abruptly due to heat. 

That only happens for people that shoot for the moon on the voltages. If you take it steadly (like you should) it will never shutdown.