kingkaan wrote:
Mine was at the -70 too and i had no problems bf4 beta kept crashing after a while and also my pc started randomly restarting every 2 days and when i opened xtu it said it crashed so clocks were reset to defaults..what is a stable clocks for this cpu? what are u guys using? i have the same cpu 4700hq... i pulled the offsets down to 59 and i benchmarked it lost 5 points. but i have no idea if its stable now.
It does get confusing with all the variables involved, but keep in mind that the CPU should run fine at default settings. If you don't want to think about tuning for a while, put things back at defaults and enjoy your gaming, then come back to tuning later.
Increasing the multipliers to max settings is only 5% increase, modest and unlikely to overheat your CPU unless you have a bad paste job - which might be some. Check your temps at stock before turning up the multipliers. You can also run stock speeds with voltage offsets to reduce temps.
Setting the voltage offset to -50mV for CPU/cache should be stable for everyone, but it varies by CPU. Any amount that runs stably for your CPU is good, it will reduce the heat output. Also good to do at stock CPU speeds, really cool temps then.
For me setting at -65mV is stable, even under sustained load, but if I go to -75mV it will reset occasionally. I haven't tried -70mV, but I will at some point because it will reduce the heat further.
All tuning gets to the point where you might be 1 or 2 points off of failure, and stable.
Are you sure the BF4 crashes were due to CPU? BF4 hits the GPU pretty hard too. I ran BF4 for hours at 5200mhz Memory on the GPU. CPU ran fine at max multiplier and -65mV on CPU/cache.
