overclock

[trainut]

hi all newbie here just joined wishing you all well can anyone explain this please all inputs welcome, did overclock to what I wanted 4.6 in bios. xmp sync all cores set my voltage to 1.270 set on manual all my other settings were ok exit. ran aida 64 for 4 hours all well voltage never went above 1.284 my highest temps did not exceed 63 c, thought great that will do nice. then I decided to give it a quick realbench stress yes quick was the word it crashed in less than3 minutes now should I have given it more voltage to get ok from realbench and which stress monitor do I belive ps this is my 1st build and overclocking experince

[Nate152]

Hello trainut, welcome to the ROG forum.

You've come to the right place for overclock advice.

Give us your system specs as this might can tell us where the overclock failed, but more than likely you just need a little more vcore.

[trainut]

cosmos case, rm 850 psu maximus v111 ranger. 6700k 16 gb g skill ripjaw corsair h110igt 250 ssd boot drive 1+1+3tb Seagate hds 42 lg smart senhouser h/p if I needed more voltage why did aida run for approx. 4 hours no faults volts set manual 1.270 never exceded 1.286 temps tops63 c ps forgot gpu strix asus 970 gtx

[Chino]

trainut wrote:
hi all newbie here just joined wishing you all well can anyone explain this please all inputs welcome, did overclock to what I wanted 4.6 in bios. xmp sync all cores set my voltage to 1.270 set on manual all my other settings were ok exit. ran aida 64 for 4 hours all well voltage never went above 1.284 my highest temps did not exceed 63 c, thought great that will do nice. then I decided to give it a quick realbench stress yes quick was the word it crashed in less than3 minutes now should I have given it more voltage to get ok from realbench and which stress monitor do I belive ps this is my 1st build and overclocking experince

Realbench is harder to pass. Continue tweaking your overclock.

[trainut]

will continue to tweak . if I do a overclock ie 4.5 set in bios stress test it and I am happy with results ,just close down come back tomorrow start my pc I assume it starts and the overclock is still there, so if I don't want to bother with profiles I now have a pc of 4.5 assuming it does not crash, if I start heavy loading it. the reason I ask this when I first tried I made 2 profiles but they were a mistake and ,tryd to delete or over wright to no avail I wanted to keep things neat,. my memory is showing 1499.30 to 1500 when stress testing ram is 3000 rated many thank for inputs all helps

[pimpdoobie]

ok so ive done a bit of research and it seems that when stress testing you want to have cpu core/cache voltage in manual mode (witch keeps core voltage near set value) then when you are stable turn it to adaptive mode witch lets cpu turn voltage down when pc is not doing anything sorry for the miss information its been a while since ive overclocked an intel cpu like chino said leave turbo on you don't need to turn it off when testing anymore its only older intel cpu's that benefit from doing this when stress testing

[iCTEKGUY]

pimpdoobie wrote:
when you are stable turn it to adaptive mode witch lets cpu turn voltage down when pc is not doing anything...

As easy as that sounds, I ran into some issue. After trouble shooting, I realized it was due to running my cache multiplier too high. It appears that while at manual mode, I am able to run a cpu/cache multiplier at 4.8/4.6. However when setting Adaptive Mode, I am was only able to set the multipliers at 4.8/4.5. Oddly enough, I learned of this while bored and playing with the Asus 5-way Optimization Software and letting it do a 4.6/4.5 overclock, only running 2 cores at 4.6 and the other 2 at 4.5. At this time, I'm just running my Processor at the 5-way setting as I don't have a need for anything greater.

Just a heads up in case you run into the same issue I did. Chino has a --->link<--- in his signature of a fantastic guide he wrote you may wanna check out if you haven't already. I went looking for a solution on my Adaptive Mode issue when I saw it. Thought I was doing something wrong, turns out through trouble shooting, I was...just not what I thought I was doing wrong. I basically just rushed jumping to a 4.6 cache multiplier.

Good luck!

[trainut]

I have read the link you sent excellent item I will keep referring to it , the only thing I see he starts with1.35, I only started with 1.264 which passed on aida64 crashed on realbench I then only went to 1.295 as I thought that would give a bit spare , but I am a long way off 1.35 and it has tested on both todate seems ok ill try a few more test runs today and add a couple of photo shots .you commented on the 5 way you were playing about with. my very first attempt went to 5 then referd stable at 4.8 but temps were 80c across all cores scared me to death when it crashed as I had never seen it before when I go adeptive shall I go to say 1.30

[trainut]

did two tests this morning all was well then changed to adaptive realbench passed 1 hour adia64 failed 30 seconds that was on 1.290, so I went back to bios took off xmp sync 46 then as per chino manual1.35 test both passed then went adaptive1.36 both passed 1 hour tests. all my temps top 71c the only thing I did notice on xmp my memory clock was1500 and this tests1077-+ I also noticed pcu ran at 1.344 most of the time 4.620 most of the time also do I leave at that or do anything else lads thanks a lot oh one spike of volts 1.360

[iCTEKGUY]

trainut wrote:
did two tests this morning all was well then changed to adaptive realbench passed 1 hour adia64 failed 30 seconds that was on 1.290, so I went back to bios took off xmp sync 46 then as per chino manual1.35 test both passed then went adaptive1.36 both passed 1 hour tests. all my temps top 71c the only thing I did notice on xmp my memory clock was1500 and this tests1077-+ I also noticed pcu ran at 1.344 most of the time 4.620 most of the time also do I leave at that or do anything else lads thanks a lot oh one spike of volts 1.360

You don't want to use Adaptive Mode when benching, as it adds a variable to the amount of voltage that is much higher than one you've preset/determined to be safe, with Manual Mode. Once you obtain a stable overclock with the minimal voltage to obtain it, then you set Adaptive Mode. Only use Manual Mode for benchmarking. Adaptive mode for everyday use and energy savings.

Benchmarking pushes your system greater than anything it will see in normal/gaming use. So that is why you want more control over the voltage you are feeding your system. Without control, you are asking for trouble and risking damage to your components.

Good luck, keep us posted.