Computer crashes with Overclocked 1700X when trying to render in Sony Vegas

[Rankin McKechnie]

A while ago, I made a thread very similar to this about virtually the same issue when I had an AMD FX cpu. Basically whenever I overclock my CPU (which I'm going to assume is stable, as I followed a guide using the same hardware) everything seems to work just fine. But whenever I begin to try and render a video in Sony Vegas, my entire computer shuts off without warning after a few minutes. I am going to automatically associate the problem with overclocking since rendering videos before, using my system at its base clocks/voltages, everything worked just fine. Same thing with my previous FX build.

I also tried lowering rendering threads from 16 to 4 in Vegas and that kept the rendering going a bit longer before crashing, but it didn't solve the problem. Looking at my CPU temps while rendering, it fluctuates from 70.0 C to about 90.2 C and usually lingers around 86. 0 C. I want to solve this problem without compromising my overclock. If necessary, I can list my system specs and voltages. Thanks.

 

[Mikeandike]

Specs would be great but I personally think your OC isn't 100% stable, try reducing the overclock by 100mhz or slightly bump the voltage and try it again

 

[scout_03]

check your motherboard uefi settings for bios you might have gone to high with a 92 c on load .

 

[Rankin McKechnie]

Specs would be great but I personally think your OC isn't 100% stable, try reducing the overclock by 100mhz or slightly bump the voltage and try it again

Alright, so here's what I tried so far:

4.1 GHz; 1.3875V - Refused to boot
4.0 GHz; 1.3875V - Booted, but PC shut off right after starting my video render
3.8 GHz; 1.3975V - Same as the latter, but shut off a bit later

I've heard about setting the voltage to 1.4V, but I don't know if that would be considered overkill. I also want to mention I have Cool n' Quiet enabled on the motherboard and the SOC voltage is set to 1.2V.

 

[Rankin McKechnie]

check your motherboard uefi settings for bios you might have gone to high with a 92 c on load .

That's what I was kind of thinking. I thought about lowering the voltage to 1.35V as that's what a few other articles read.

 

[Mikeandike]

I'd say try stock clocks first just to make sure it's 100% your CPU and not anything else.

 

[scout_03]

what is the ram you have that could help to overclock witout having to raise voltages on cpu or ram .

 

[Rankin McKechnie]

what is the ram you have that could help to overclock witout having to raise voltages on cpu or ram .

2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000. Base clock speed was 2933MHz, upon overclocking, it raised to 3066MHz.

 

[Rankin McKechnie]

I'd say try stock clocks first just to make sure it's 100% your CPU and not anything else.

Rendering before overclocking was perfectly fine. Now should I try just overclocking my RAM or just overclocking my CPU separately?

 

[ElectronGuyzz]

Try to lower the ram to 3000mhz instead

 

[Mikeandike]

try to bump up the ram lastly, take the cpu clock and slowly bring it up, voltage with it as well, do some stress testing, then rinse/repeat until you get instability issues. then just tone it back a little bit from there. Lastly follow the same procedure with the ram, i was able to get my lpx 3000mhz to 3200mhz

 

[Rankin McKechnie]

try to bump up the ram lastly, take the cpu clock and slowly bring it up, voltage with it as well, do some stress testing, then rinse/repeat until you get instability issues. then just tone it back a little bit from there. Lastly follow the same procedure with the ram, i was able to get my lpx 3000mhz to 3200mhz

I'll try that. The strange thing is, once I overclocked the CPU, the RAM speeds auto defaulted to 3200. However in my task manager, the speeds are only 3066. I should also probably mention, I only have XMP profile 1, not profile 2.

 

[scout_03]

what is the name and model of your motherboard might have miss a settings .