Chrome BSODs my OC

[ValkyrieStar]

So I've spent many hours and through fine tuning ive got my i7-7700K stable at 5.2GHz at just 1.400v and a -2 AVX offset.

 

It runs Prime95 v26.6 Small FFTs for hours on end at its full 5.0GHz.

 

Temps about 75c max from that.

 

It also runs Prime95 v28.10 Small FFTs at its 5.0GHz offset setting (AVX offset ftw).

 

Temps about 80c max from that.

 

It runs games fine for hours on end..

 

It runs both prime95's together at the same time at 5.0ghz, happily, for hours.

 

It runs games and prime95s together, happily, though it feels sluggish (no suprise tho).

 

Yet as soon as i load up chrome alongside  prime95 the system freezes. I can push up to 1.425v and still the same freeze then some whea uncorrectable or watchdog timeout..

 

What is wrong?

[NTDaws]

what cooler do u have.

[ValkyrieStar]

Running Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm with NF-F12 PWM fans

[SageOfSpice]

The chip could just not be stable at 5Ghz.

My FX-6300 is stable at 4.6 all day at a reasonable voltage, but anything above that and no matter how much voltage I give it, it will inevitably crash.

I've pretty much experienced the same thing, though. Not sure why chrome is so much harder on the CPU than gaming and stress testing, but whatever.

 

In my case, I did find that my games did eventually crash though. It took about 12 hours of play for it to happen, but...

 

It is what it is.

[ValkyrieStar]

I have a slight feeling it could be because the Cache is also running at 5GHz, ill drop it back to 4.5 and see how it goes..

 

It's benchable at 1.460v & 5.3GHz (and i have a firestrike run to prove it) but thats just too hot and too high voltage for my liking.

 

Ill have a test at the lower cache clock and see how it goes anyway...

 

Tbh its kinda funny how my chip runs 5.3 at lower voltage than my 6700k needs for 4.8, and no matter what i pushed through that 6700k it wouldnt even boot at 4.9 lol

[ValkyrieStar]

34 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

The chip could just not be stable at 5Ghz.

My FX-6300 is stable at 4.6 all day at a reasonable voltage, but anything above that and no matter how much voltage I give it, it will inevitably crash.

I've pretty much experienced the same thing, though. Not sure why chrome is so much harder on the CPU than gaming and stress testing, but whatever.

 

In my case, I did find that my games did eventually crash though. It took about 12 hours of play for it to happen, but...

 

It is what it is.

Something wierd with chrome, oh well. 5.1 is perfect at 1.375v so i guess i'll just leave it at that lol. No matter what i tried it wouldnt get stable. Strange though normally i've had it where if i can't get one multi 100% stable the next either wont boot or takes a craptonne of volts to be benchable, and well i just managed to get 5.4 to boot up but bsod after windows login at just 1.5v (intel's absolute maximum recommended limit). Guess it's like the last core of my 6700K i could get it stable on 3 cores up to 4.8 at low vcores, 4.9 woudnt boot at all, and enabling the 4th core meant putting too much voltage through it, ended up at 4.5ghz 1.340v on that chip. bit poor.