I brought my PC around 8 months ago and the previous owner told me there was an overclock on the CPU an i7 4790k and I tested it it was fine for the game's I played mainly (Realm Royale,Rogue company and fortnite).
Now lets fast forward till a couple of weeks ago I started playing apex and my game started crashing/freezing my PC to the point where I had to turn it off at the power and I have reinstalled apex multiple times and it still happens.
So I seen in task manager my CPU was running at around 4.4-4.6GHZ whilst playing apex and then seen that the specs on my CPU says it only turbo's to 4.4Ghz and I read a little bit about overclocking and from what I read it help's if you have a good motherboard
to go with the CPU and I'm not sure if mine is, its a ASUS H81M-Plus motherboard and I have an air cooler on the CPU.
So I was wondering if:
Now lets fast forward till a couple of weeks ago I started playing apex and my game started crashing/freezing my PC to the point where I had to turn it off at the power and I have reinstalled apex multiple times and it still happens.
So I seen in task manager my CPU was running at around 4.4-4.6GHZ whilst playing apex and then seen that the specs on my CPU says it only turbo's to 4.4Ghz and I read a little bit about overclocking and from what I read it help's if you have a good motherboard
to go with the CPU and I'm not sure if mine is, its a ASUS H81M-Plus motherboard and I have an air cooler on the CPU.
So I was wondering if:
- the motherboard is good for OCing ?
- Could the OC be the problem of the crashing/freezing ?
- How do I remove the OC (as long as its safe to remove it) ?