I'm new to overclocking, and recently started to see how far I can push my chip, and so far things were going well until I hit that 4.9GHz point. The issue here is when trying to push my clock speed to 4.9GHz, I require a substantial increase in voltage (and with it, an increase in temperatures). I previously found it to be stable at 4.8GHz overclock at 1.275v with temperatures going from 75-85 when stress testing on RealBench and Prime95 (latest version, no AVX, small FFT test) - when gaming I only hit to high 60s to low 70s with Apex Legends.
From trying to get to 4.9GHz, I have been increasing the voltage all towards 1.34v so far (and still increasing as I have not found that stable point), and either get too high temperatures with the overclock on the stress test (up to 85-95 degrees as said by HWMonitor), or instability issues such as Prime95's rounding errors and RealBench crashes.
Increasing the voltage doesn't seem to solve those problems either, as I still get those instability errors and temperatures are just getting higher to the point where I reached high 90s. I just failed Prime95's small FFT test on 1.34v at an even earlier rate than the previous lower voltages (such as 1.32v), and that doesn't seem right.
I have a be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 air cooler, an AsRock Z370 Extreme4 mobo, all in a Meshify C case (with x2 140mm front intake, x1 120mm back exhaust and x2 120 mm top exhaust). I also use a GTX960 and HyperX 2400MHz 2x4GB RAM DDR4.
My BIOS settings that I have only changed so far are:
From trying to get to 4.9GHz, I have been increasing the voltage all towards 1.34v so far (and still increasing as I have not found that stable point), and either get too high temperatures with the overclock on the stress test (up to 85-95 degrees as said by HWMonitor), or instability issues such as Prime95's rounding errors and RealBench crashes.
Increasing the voltage doesn't seem to solve those problems either, as I still get those instability errors and temperatures are just getting higher to the point where I reached high 90s. I just failed Prime95's small FFT test on 1.34v at an even earlier rate than the previous lower voltages (such as 1.32v), and that doesn't seem right.
I have a be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 air cooler, an AsRock Z370 Extreme4 mobo, all in a Meshify C case (with x2 140mm front intake, x1 120mm back exhaust and x2 120 mm top exhaust). I also use a GTX960 and HyperX 2400MHz 2x4GB RAM DDR4.
My BIOS settings that I have only changed so far are:
- Core Clock Speed: 49
- AVC Offset: 2
- LLC: Level 1 (highest for this mobo, tried Auto)
- Vcore: 1.34v (have reached this point so far)
- Did I get bad luck on the lottery and reached my limit on overclocking?
- Is there any settings I need to concern myself with to actually get it to stabilize? I heard things about Cache Ratio and Power Limits, but I don't have a full understanding of what it does yet and don't know what values I should enter. I also am not looking to delid.
- Shouldn't the Dark Rock Pro 4 be more than sufficient for cooling at this point? I feel like it's not enough even though its advertised to be able to handle it/
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