Asus 5G Over Clock profile

[jay2ayy]

I used the auto overclock profile from Asus to overclock my I7-8086k. All cores are clocked at 5.0 and the voltage is about 1.34. If I want to try for a lower voltage can I just manually lower the voltage, or do I have to change other settings as well?

 

[kiss-method]

You should follow a guide as to how to overclock your cpu on that motherboard.

Quick Overclocking tools are great, but they up the voltage to the max to give the cpu stability, this creates lots of heat and increases possibility of damage. So it's best to run your own stable overclock. With a personal Overclock you will tweak many other settings which will generally lead to a much more stable system

 

[The Original Ralph]

you can lower the voltage and run Prime95 v26.6, and choose the small FFTs selection - run for 15-20 minutes, if it doesn't crash, BSOD etc, then lower again in a small increment, ie 1.340 > 1.335 and if you can lower in smaller increments then do that - but when you hit the value that causes Prime95 to crash, then bump it back up 2 of those increments

but it would be best to start from scratch, as you don't know what other presets (XMP, Turbo boost, etc) that that factory OC app has selected

there's a good guide here on Tom's, would good detail, and an easy by the numbers guide over on the MSI website
https://www.msi.com/blog/intel-9th-cpu-overclocking-5ghz-with-z390-motherboards with page by page selections shown. Some of the nomenclature is slightly different from your Asus BIOS, but it won't take a second or two to recognize what they're referring to

This may or may not apply to your board, and i haven't seen anyone post about this issue, but mine was crashing while running P95 - i used WhoCrashed to pull up the mini-dump files, and it was showing a file from my virus program (Emsisoft) conflicting with a windows kernel - when i dis-abled virus program during P95 stress testing, those crashes stopped and i made it to 5.0 on my current CPU