[SOLVED] Msi z390 gaming plus HELP

[TeeRoy]

Specs:
MSI Z390 Gaming Plus
Intel i7 8700k
2x 8gb corsair vengeance ddr4
Nvidia 1060
Evo m2 NVME
Corsair Modular 650w PSU

Purchased this board saturday and put a build together. All day Sunday and Monday I was getting constant freezes and could not find the culprit. Tested Ram, , GPU, CPU HD's all on another rig all working fine. Noticed voltage dips and spikes to the CPU were talking from 0.6-1.48 on the auto setting in bios (at 37 ratio) went into the OC settings and changed ratio to 44 and voltage to 1.25.

The pc ran stable overnight and then crashed immediately in the morning. Reset the OC settings and it ran stable for another 8 hours under stress, another crash. Today it was stable for 4 hours this morning, crash and then stable for 8+ hours (streaming, gaming, ect). Do I have a bunk board, is replacing it going to fix the issue or does my problem lie elsewhere?

Just took apart the rig and am debating exchanging for another one in the morning. Advice or tips greatly appreciated

 

[bmockeg]

Did you do a fresh windows install?

 

[TeeRoy]

Did you do a fresh windows install?

Yup, fresh windows, flashed bios, ran memtest, relentlessly went through the event log, it showed nothing. The only abnormality was the fluctuation in the cpu voltage. Or the only thing I saw

 

[bmockeg]

Yup, fresh windows, flashed bios, ran memtest, relentlessly went through the event log, it showed nothing. The only abnormality was the fluctuation in the cpu voltage. Or the only thing I saw

Board is on the cheaper side for a 8700k. 8 phase VRM without heatsink for some of it. Might be your voltage culprit.

 

[TeeRoy]

Board is on the cheaper side for a 8700k. 8 phase VRM without heatsink for some of it. Might be your voltage culprit.

How do I go about fixing this (rather illiterate with these kinds of things)? It seems way more stable changing the Auto value of the voltage in bios to 1.25.

 

[bmockeg]

Manual values are preferred and that would be the easy fix. You’ll want to set a static frequency as well basically overclocking. You should be able to set it to the max boost speed at like 1.28-1.3v. Test with a benchmark like OCCT or realbench for stability.

 

[TeeRoy]

<3 thats what my friends and i had come to already as a solution, appreciate the insight! just getting a response outside my circle feels fantastic

 

[bmockeg]

<3 thats what my friends and i had come to already as a solution, appreciate the insight! just getting a response outside my circle feels fantastic

No problem.