Hey guys! I'm a novice at overclocking and tonight I finally decided two overclock my chip.
So I started easy with the overclock. 4.2GHz 30 min Prime95. No issues. I ran some other bits and did some googling on how to proceed from here. At this point I only adjusted the multiplier and the core voltage. Both set to fixed with the multiplier at 42 and the core voltage at 1.200 volts.
So I'm watching a Linus video on overclocking the 4770k and he says to do a quick dirty overclock at 4.6GHz at 1.25 volts to see what the chip is like. So I proceed to enter the values and snap. No post. The motherboard displays a messaging saying the overclock failed. So I think damn, maybe 4.5 will work with the voltage at 1.25. Nope. Get into windows followed by a BSOD. This happens over and over till I restore all settings to default.
Currently I'm sat at 4.3GHz with a fixed voltage of 1.200 volts. Nothing else changed. Currently running Aida64 and temps from 50 degrees on the coolest core to 65 degrees on the hottest core.
What is find odd is when I tried to run Aida64 at 4.3GHz last time, 5 minutes in I got a BSOD. This time I'm 15 minutes in and fine.
So is it that I've got a bad CPU that doesn't overclock? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong and I don't know?
Oh for reference, I'm using the MSI Z87-GD65 motherboard. Other hardware is in my sig. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
So I started easy with the overclock. 4.2GHz 30 min Prime95. No issues. I ran some other bits and did some googling on how to proceed from here. At this point I only adjusted the multiplier and the core voltage. Both set to fixed with the multiplier at 42 and the core voltage at 1.200 volts.
So I'm watching a Linus video on overclocking the 4770k and he says to do a quick dirty overclock at 4.6GHz at 1.25 volts to see what the chip is like. So I proceed to enter the values and snap. No post. The motherboard displays a messaging saying the overclock failed. So I think damn, maybe 4.5 will work with the voltage at 1.25. Nope. Get into windows followed by a BSOD. This happens over and over till I restore all settings to default.
Currently I'm sat at 4.3GHz with a fixed voltage of 1.200 volts. Nothing else changed. Currently running Aida64 and temps from 50 degrees on the coolest core to 65 degrees on the hottest core.
What is find odd is when I tried to run Aida64 at 4.3GHz last time, 5 minutes in I got a BSOD. This time I'm 15 minutes in and fine.
So is it that I've got a bad CPU that doesn't overclock? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong and I don't know?
Oh for reference, I'm using the MSI Z87-GD65 motherboard. Other hardware is in my sig. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.