AI Suite OC causing bluescreen error??

[syrus64209]

I have been working on trying to OC my CPU (intel i5 4670k) using the AI Suite 4-way optimization which auto clocks it to 4.2 from 3.4 and brings my memory to 2400mhz (8gig G-Skill Trident DDR-3). I have a H100 corsair lquid cooling system. When i ran prime95 after the tune for an hour it passed all tests however it did get a bit warm (90C at higher tests 800k). But non the less i have no issues untill i started running BF4 then twice now i have blue screen crashed. I have the Hero board with 256g SSD and HX850 Corsair PSU gold rated. Also running SLI 760s gigbyte. I am new to attempting to OC which is why i was really hoping (as many were) that this "Auto OC" would work well with my setup. Please any help would be nice because i should be able to jump my memory to its rated 2400mhz and OC to atleast 4.2 w.o a issue. And yes i know there isnt a major gain at having memory at 2400 but i stream and record gameplay as well.

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 When i checked the dmp log file it is resulting in a hal.dll driver with a hal.dll+12a3b address failure cause.

[ewind]

I can't clock mine with AI Suite 4-way optimization at all (4670K). It just reboots and locks up, although I am able to clock to 4.1GHz using auto I just change the multiplier to 41 and set my memory too 1600HMz. Runs fine that way. I am sure some people have no issues with AI Suite 3 it just don't work on my board and processor.

[syrus64209]

Ya what im slowly coming by is not to use the auto OC and just to do it normally. My problem is idk anything about overclocking but guess im going to have to learn. Ideally I want to hit 4.2 because I know its a solid clock speed.

[ewind]

http://rog.asus.com/tag/4670k-oc/

Here's something that may help you with your learn curve. I think the problem with AI3 is it tends to either over vot. or under vot. the CPU. to hit 4.2 Ghz I need a voltage of at lest 1.225 and my air cooler or the H80i I had (sold) can't keep the heat under control. So I opt. for 4Ghz that 11% boost at 4.1 it's only 13% and at 4.2 it's like 14% so I didn't see much use of adding the heat for 4%.

[syrus64209]

Ya I originally had h60 which I quickly swappdd for h100 cuz I knew it wasnt going to do the job. Ill chrck into that link and also fry to manually OC with xmp and go to 42x

[ewind]

I didn't use XMP, I set it all manually - timing and voltage, then put in 42x it worked out for me, although I'm not really that great at this platform. Hope you get it going.

[static1]

So the thing is that Haswell is way diff than prev CPU's. You can no longer push the CPU and the RAM. You more or less have to choose which to overclock. You can't really overclock both (at least not much). You can google this. Even the Asus tutorials state this clearly. The short answer is, do what they said above. Set multi manually and cpu voltage, leave rest auto. Run ram at 1600. Good luck!

[ewind]

I'm still kicking myself for not going with the Z77 or the X79 . If I could sell my board and chip with out taking to much of lost on it. I'd go down to the z77's or x79. I broke my own rule to never buy a NEW chip-set within the first year it's released. But I am somewhat happy with it. It's still a lot faster then my older i5 650 ... by a long shoot. Just not as over clock able, I had it running at 4.5GHz 24 stable on H80i with NO heat issues at all. But this one at 4GHz kills it in bench marks. I'm still running two EVGA 550 Ti's in SLI. (older cards).

[syrus64209]

So last night I enabled XMP profile 2 (2399mhz memory vs 2401) and set the cpu lvl to 4.200g (I hope thats what ur refering to as a multiplier). Ran memtest 86 for 2 hours bwfore OC with no errors then put in OC and ran prime95. I stayed in the 70s except for at 800k iterations I average high 80s with 93c as peak for one core. Thats about 6c lower then my before average but still a lil high. However those high temps were on a very high stress iteration.

[Raja]

The AI Suite software on the ROG boards is configured to use static voltages for the presets. This can cause issue with processors that don't overclock well because they need more voltage to reach the target frequency. There isn't anything we can do as a cure4all in this case, because it would push the voltage range past tolerable for most forms of cooling and also increase voltages further than the average processors need.

If you happen to have a weak CPU sample, it's better to learn overclocking it manually.

-Raja