Once again. 1700X Problems

ActuallyGoose · October 12, 2017

Okay, I give up with this thing. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but this chip just hates me, or hates being alive, or maybe a combination of both. So, I've been seeing all over that 100% of people are hitting 3.8Ghz @ 1.360. meanwhilte I can't get past 3.6Ghz without it crashing the second i run Cinebench. I've tried running it at every interval of volts, check that the cpu cooler is on properly (And Honestly, I don't want to have to take it off and go out and buy more thermal paste for it, but I might do that next week. And honestly, When I do manage to get a stable clock at 3.6, or 3.7, the Cinebench score is awful, it varies from 1300 and 1450 stock, to a high of 1573 at 3.7, But I haven't been able to get through one at 3.8 as of yet.

I honestly Don't know what to do, And I don't know if I can take it back, or get it checked out, Because technically it runs, and there's nothing wrong with it, It just really can't OC for shit, and the temps are kind of ridiculous at times. On stock atm I'm at 32.5C (Lowest I think i've ever seen it) besides when the case is open, it might drop 1 or 2 C. And at load it generally will hit 68C and on stress tests (Prime95) it hits about 78C

just_dave · October 12, 2017

Have you worked with LLC? Dont forget that auto LLC often drops unnecessary voltage, for example, if i run my mobo with auto LLC and 3.9GHz 1.375V, during load the voltage drops to 1.325V and it crashes. When i set LLC to L3, the voltage during load is 1.352V and it doesnt crash

Santo22 · October 12, 2017

8 minutes ago, Mufastang said:

Okay, I give up with this thing. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but this chip just hates me, or hates being alive, or maybe a combination of both. So, I've been seeing all over that 100% of people are hitting 3.8Ghz @ 1.360. meanwhilte I can't get past 3.6Ghz without it crashing the second i run Cinebench. I've tried running it at every interval of volts, check that the cpu cooler is on properly (And Honestly, I don't want to have to take it off and go out and buy more thermal paste for it, but I might do that next week. And honestly, When I do manage to get a stable clock at 3.6, or 3.7, the Cinebench score is awful, it varies from 1300 and 1450 stock, to a high of 1573 at 3.7, But I haven't been able to get through one at 3.8 as of yet.

I honestly Don't know what to do, And I don't know if I can take it back, or get it checked out, Because technically it runs, and there's nothing wrong with it, It just really can't OC for shit, and the temps are kind of ridiculous at times. On stock atm I'm at 32.5C (Lowest I think i've ever seen it) besides when the case is open, it might drop 1 or 2 C. And at load it generally will hit 68C and on stress tests (Prime95) it hits about 78C

I am having similar issues with my 1700x on an Asus C6H. I got the advise on here to turn up LLC and it has worked very well for me. I have an AIO and get almost exactly the same temps as you are getting. Seems to be pretty standard. Putting LLC to level 1 allowed me to hit 3.8ghz at 1.35 volts for the first time. I'm still in the process of testing and dialing it in but I would start there.

Ps. also put SOCP* (i thinks thats what it is) at 1.2v. This helped with vdroop

Sauron · October 12, 2017

It could just be an unlucky chip, it happens. There is no guarantee you'll get a single MHz more than advertised. As others said, try using LLC, but if that doesn't work you probably just got a bad die. This is why you should buy a cpu that satisfies you at stock speeds rather than banking on overclocking.