I've encountered an issue with my overclock. First off, I've been running this overclock for 4+ years with rock solid stability. Thousands of hours playing CPU intensive games like BF4/BF1, The Division, Fallout 4, etc.
Recently had a new little bundle of joy enter the world, so my computer was off for nearly 5 months. Started it up a few times to install updates (games, drivers, windows), but never spent more than 10 minutes playing any games.
So yesterday I finally had some free time, sat down to play some Battlefield 1. Game kept crashing at random points. I checked that all drivers were up date, started to monitor temps with HWmonitor as I initially thought the temps were getting too high. CPU temp was right were it always was, between 62c - 68c across all 4 cores. Got out the compressed air and cleaned the dust out anyways.
Then I noticed the strangest thing. HW monitor was reporting my max CPU speed at 4731mhz!? I opened CPU-Z and MSI afterburner to double check. They were also reporting these 1-2 second long spikes in clock speed.
Because I have a dual monitor set up, I left them running on one screen and started up BF1. Sure enough, random CPU frequency spike was causing the game to crash.
An increase in CPU voltage from 1.26v to 1.28v seems to have made the system stable...but still wondering why this issue has suddenly arisen.
I tried setting the max CPU limit in windows power options to 4600mhz, but it is still happening. Double checked all my OC settings, everything is were it was before. What could be causing my CPU clock speed to suddenly start spiking? Is my poor old motherboard finally starting to die?
I'm not using adaptive voltage. Fixed voltage with fixed clock speed.
System specs are as follows:
i7 3770k @ 4.6ghz, 1.26v, air cooled with Noctua NH-D14
MSI Z77A-GD55
16gb 2400mhz G-Skill Trident Z
EVGA GTX 970 ssc
240gb Intel 730 SSD
1TB WD Black
3TB WD Green
Recently had a new little bundle of joy enter the world, so my computer was off for nearly 5 months. Started it up a few times to install updates (games, drivers, windows), but never spent more than 10 minutes playing any games.
So yesterday I finally had some free time, sat down to play some Battlefield 1. Game kept crashing at random points. I checked that all drivers were up date, started to monitor temps with HWmonitor as I initially thought the temps were getting too high. CPU temp was right were it always was, between 62c - 68c across all 4 cores. Got out the compressed air and cleaned the dust out anyways.
Then I noticed the strangest thing. HW monitor was reporting my max CPU speed at 4731mhz!? I opened CPU-Z and MSI afterburner to double check. They were also reporting these 1-2 second long spikes in clock speed.
Because I have a dual monitor set up, I left them running on one screen and started up BF1. Sure enough, random CPU frequency spike was causing the game to crash.
An increase in CPU voltage from 1.26v to 1.28v seems to have made the system stable...but still wondering why this issue has suddenly arisen.
I tried setting the max CPU limit in windows power options to 4600mhz, but it is still happening. Double checked all my OC settings, everything is were it was before. What could be causing my CPU clock speed to suddenly start spiking? Is my poor old motherboard finally starting to die?
I'm not using adaptive voltage. Fixed voltage with fixed clock speed.
System specs are as follows:
i7 3770k @ 4.6ghz, 1.26v, air cooled with Noctua NH-D14
MSI Z77A-GD55
16gb 2400mhz G-Skill Trident Z
EVGA GTX 970 ssc
240gb Intel 730 SSD
1TB WD Black
3TB WD Green
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