Overclock Failure Warnings

[Schwartzinator]

This last week I thought I'd been seeing odd hitching while pursuing around on my desktop, but chalked it up to my mind playing tricks. Yesterday evening I'd left the computer on and was making dinner and when I'd returned, no picture would display on the monitor though the computer was clearly on. Restarted it and it appeared normal. This afternoon I go to power it on for the first time today and it returns an overclock failed splash screen and prompts me to adjust settings. I just had the CPU replaced 1/13/17, and the board was replaced in 3/6/17. Standard configuration had been a 24/7 4.0GHz and 1.04v overclock (aside from 3 or 4 runs of Firestrike at 4.5GHz and 1.17v). I haven't gotten around to a thorough testing, but I tried increasing voltages and it still wouldn't start up. A reset to the default configuration got it up and running, but may not be stable. I was planning on waiting for cascade lake, but will now be looking for a new configuration as a stock 5960X is not going to cut it.

Ryzen is interesting but dual channel memory and 16 lanes isn't particularly appealing and the inner OCD in me doesn't want to pair an AMD CPU with NVIDIA GPUs. The 7820X would be golden if not for the removal of the full 44 lanes and use of cheap TIM. Intel. WTF?! The 7900X sounds cool, but I just am not interested in dropping $1,000 on a cpu along with the necessary custom loop; my X61 ain't gonna cut it. Kind of stuck in a rut trying to figure out what to do.

 

[Schwartzinator]

Ended up purchasing a 6850k to tide me over until something new drops. Before y'all ask why I didn't buy Coffee Lake: I'm ditching it for the next HEDT release, the 6850K is soldered and gives me 40 lanes for 16x16x SLI for the low price of $350. Sold.