What to Expect from My 7700K-Stuck

[Roger3006]

Hello Everyone,

I built my first computer about three years ago for image editing. it was a Maximus XII Hero board with a 4790K that was mildly overclocked. It failed and I replaced the motherboard with a Maximus IX Hero and had to do it fast. 32GB of Corsair 3200 RAM with six SSDs and 4 spinners.

My last setup did a great job with still images and I was amazed when I first used my new setup. A few things of interest, my current machine is plenty quick with stills (images) and I do not edit video. I am probably the oldest one on this forum. I have never been able to leave anything alone that can be made to go faster or better. Cars, sailboats and rifle cartridges are among my many vices, past and present. How many of you raced slot cars? Y'all missed something fun. That's where I am coming from. In other words, I am turning this machine up because I am having fun.

I have tried BIOS settings found in this forum and have been tweaking the BIOS. The AI Suite will do as good a job as I can. None of the BIOS settings I found at the beginning of the forum will run. Windows 10 64 will not even start. If I attempt to go up to 49000 MHz I rarely make it to Windows. If I do it will crash the minute I start RealBench.

No matter what I do or try I cannot get my CPU past 48,000 MHz with a RealBench score of about 90,000. Temps run below 75 degrees. I have a dual 140MM AIO cooler. I have not delidded my processor, yet. My delidding tool will be here Wednesday.

I do not know if my barrier is temperature related, bottleneck in my hardware, bad BIOS settings or some of each. I do not know what utilities to use that will tell me where the problem is. I need help. You can see my complete setup in my profile.

Following is a report from Real Bench. I really do not know what is good, bad or what to expect.



Sun Oct 29 2017
19:03:19




Image Editing: 87170
Time: 61.1217


Encoding: 79824
Time: 66.7467


OpenCL: 90610
KSamples/sec: 16730


Heavy Multitasking: 94672
Time: 80.6148




System Score: 88069






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Sun Oct 29 2017
19:15:02




Image Editing: 85713
Time: 62.1605


Encoding: 81528
Time: 65.351


OpenCL: 90610
KSamples/sec: 16739


Heavy Multitasking: 92781
Time: 82.2577




System Score: 87658






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Sun Oct 29 2017
19:25:58




Image Editing: 86285
Time: 61.7481


Encoding: 84250
Time: 63.24


OpenCL: 90610
KSamples/sec: 16732


Heavy Multitasking: 97179
Time: 78.5349




System Score: 89581






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I am open to any and all suggestions.

Thank you,

Roger

[Roger3006]

The multiplier was raised to 49 and the machine is running a stress test. I tried 50 and did make it into the OS. Crashed and burned when I opened RealBench.

Temps are well in the green. If I am reading things right, the highest temp spike was 83c. The machine runs in the mid 60s at 100% and about 85 Watts.

Where shoud i go from here in fine tuning the CPU? I don’t want to find out the hard was what this little red button does!

Thank Y’all anf have a great evening.

Roger

[Nate152]

Hi Roger

I'd suggest setting the cpu core/cache voltage manually to 1.30v. In adaptive mode enter 1.30v in the "Additional Turbo Mode CPU Core Voltage Override" setting. This should lower temps as your cpu is likely getting overvolted when on auto, you should be able to do 4.8GHz - 5.0GHz with 1.30v.

LLC set to 5 looks to be working good for you as there isn't much vdroop or fluctuation.

Download the basic version of 3DMark and run the Time Spy test and see what you get.

3DMark Basic Edition - https://www.futuremark.com/support/downloads

I do have a better gpu but the cpu score should be pretty close.

[Roger3006]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to everyone's help, I am making progress. Clocking at 5GZ and stable. Below, you will find a couple of benchmark test.

My Open CL scores have dropped and I have not touched my GPU. Any ideas what might be going on?

Thanks,

Roger3006

[Roger3006]

Below, you will find another BenchMark test.

Roger3006

[Roger3006]

Below, you will find another BenchMark test.

Roger3006

[Nate152]

You're using an older version of Realbench but your Time Spy score looks ok, we're pretty close on the cpu score.

So give us a summary on temps and voltages, or open HWinfo then run a test and post a screenshot of Hwinfo, that will show us everything.

[Nate152]

Check in Task Manager and turn off windows defender, see if this helps your score.