4790K overclocking failed

[cdominic3]

Booted my PC today, got greeted by the BIOS saying that "overclocking failed." It was set to 4.6GHz, tried to adjust it to 4.4GHz, but it still would give me the same error. Anyone know what could be happening?

 

My Build:

Intel 4790K

ASUS Z97-AR

MSI GTX 970 OC SLI

Kingston HyperX 16GB 

EVGA 750W B2

[TheRandomness]

What voltage

[cdominic3]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

What voltage

1.25, it's been fine for 6 months suddenly crapped out, runs fine on stock.

[TheRandomness]

You can go to 1.35v just fine @cdominic3, try a higher voltage with your overclocks. 

[Beeeyeee]

thats odd, try more voltage it can change over time. overclocking wares on your components.

[cdominic3]

@TheRandomness alright, i'll try that right now

 

@Beeeyeee yeah, that's what i was thinking cause it was pretty stable at a low voltage

 

[0ld_Chicken]

I've never heard of a DC chip degrading from 1.25v, that sounds crazy to me.  I've been running 1.3v+ (usually closer to 1.4) for 18 months without a single bit of degredation.  If it was stable then not at 1.25v at 4.6ghz and you dropped it to 4.4ghz and it still failed then maybe something just got messed up.  have you tried running your same previous OC after resetting everything to stock? 

edit: unless your abusing the thing heat wise or something like that

[Beeeyeee]

6 minutes ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

I've never heard of a DC chip degrading from 1.25v, that sounds crazy to me.  I've been running 1.3v+ (usually closer to 1.4) for 18 months without a single bit of degredation.  If it was stable then not at 1.25v at 4.6ghz and you dropped it to 4.4ghz and it still failed then maybe something just got messed up.  have you tried running your same previous OC after resetting everything to stock? 

edit: unless your abusing the thing heat wise or something like that

its not just the voltage, increasing the clock speed is hard on those little transistors. also it varys based on architecture, are you running Haswell too? and yeah whats the average temps?

[cdominic3]

@0ld_Chicken @Beeeyeee i'm running it with a thermaltake ultimate 3.0 360mm rad push-pull, avg temps are 24-27 idle, 50 max when gaming

[Beeeyeee]

3 minutes ago, cdominic3 said:

@0ld_Chicken @Beeeyeee i'm running it with a thermaltake ultimate 3.0 360mm rad push-pull, avg temps are 24-27 idle, 50 max when gaming

you got an odd situation. also it could be something on your motherboard failed.

[0ld_Chicken]

6 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

its not just the voltage, increasing the clock speed is hard on those little transistors. also it varys based on architecture, are you running Haswell too?

yup, 4790k running at least 4.8ghz since I got it 18months back.  I've spent a decent amount of time benching it as well, running up to 1.45v and 5.2ghz.  Still does 4.8ghz at 1.275v just like the day I got her.  If I try 1.265v it'll certainly crash within an hour of anything other than idling.  

 

I believe in, and am afraid of degradation... Just not at 4.6ghz @ 1.25v while watercooling.  I've talked to a few other users that claim they use higher 24/7 voltages than I do and have never experienced degradation. 

@Benji_w (pretty sure he's banned thou)

[Beeeyeee]

Just now, 0ld_Chicken said:

yup, 4790k running at least 4.8ghz since I got it 18months back.  I've spent a decent amount of time benching it as well, running up to 1.45v and 5.2ghz.  Still does 4.8ghz at 1.275v just like the day I got her.  If I try 1.265v it'll certainly crash within an hour of anything other than idling.  

 

I believe in, and am afraid of degradation... Just not at 4.6ghz @ 1.25v while watercooling.  I've talked to a few other users that claim they use higher 24/7 voltages than I do and have never experienced degradation. 

dang. I had one that refused to go any higher than 4.2

[cdominic3]

@Beeeyeee @0ld_Chicken exactly why i'm here, this is flat out weird, even got this to clock to 5.0ghz, i think i should just play with the settings more. increase voltages like you guys said. i'll update you with how this goes.

[0ld_Chicken]

4 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

dang. I had one that refused to go any higher than 4.2

whaaaa?  4770k?

edit: haha finish a thought much?

2 minutes ago, cdominic3 said:

@Beeeyeee @0ld_Chicken exactly why i'm here, this is flat out weird, even got this to clock to 5.0ghz, i think i should just play with the settings more. increase voltages like you guys said. i'll update you with how this goes.

what? I doubt I can boot into windows at 1.325v and 5.0ghz  not that its necessarily stable but thats a good sign right there.  Did you try the 1.25 and 4.6ghz after resetting everything to stock?

[Beeeyeee]

8 hours ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

whaaaa?  4770k?

edit: haha finish a thought much?

4790k, what do you mean? I finished all my thoughts.?

[0ld_Chicken]

25 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

4790k, what do you mean? I finished all my thoughts.?

sorry, I meant ME finishing my thoughts. My bad   

I've never heard of a 4790k not being able to get past 4.2.... Mine turbod to 4.4 out of the box without touching a single setting....

[Beeeyeee]

2 hours ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

sorry, I meant ME finishing my thoughts. My bad   

I've never heard of a 4790k not being able to get past 4.2.... Mine turbod to 4.4 out of the box without touching a single setting....

I know its not cool man! i gave it all the volts, it had a liquid cooler, everything. not fair!:P

[Coaxialgamer]

Clear cmos and try again

[cdominic3]

@Beeeyeee @0ld_Chicken okay boys figured it out, VRM is busted. voltages weren't changing automatically or manually, getting it replaced today. thanks for telling me to adjust voltages wouldn't have figured this out.

[Beeeyeee]

1 hour ago, cdominic3 said:

@Beeeyeee @0ld_Chicken okay boys figured it out, VRM is busted. voltages weren't changing automatically or manually, getting it replaced today. thanks for telling me to adjust voltages wouldn't have figured this out.

I'm glad you figured it out. See you in 2-7 weeks when you get your board back!;p