Problems with overclocking PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

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Ok before I start, heres my specs
Viotek Black ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case W/ 120MM & 80MM RED LED, USB 3.0
ASUS Z97-A ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97-A
Intel 4670K 3.4 GHz Quad-Core (BX80646I54670K) Processor
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 - CPU Cooler with 3 Direct Contact Heatpipes
EVGA 02G-P4-2763-RX GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Suppor
1 x ADATA XPG V1.0 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model AX3U1600W8G9-RB
850W Gaming 120MM Fan Silent ATX Power Supply SATA 12V
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Driv ST1000DM003

Anyway just a heads up, I am new at this so bear with me and this is my first from ground up build.
I've been in the bios tring to figure this out for 2 days now. To start first I went for the EZ method in the EZ tuner. I go ahead and go through the EZ tune, then when it reboots my monitor says no frequency after reboot.
I've also tried some manual tuning like bumping up the core multiplier up to 40 and same result after reboot. The only way to fix it so my monitor picks up frequency again is by removing cmos battery from mobo and resetting it and I've had to do that numerous times and that cant be good in its self....
Anybodies help/ assistance would be MUCH appreciated.........
 
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Kew-el ! I'd say 4.5 is doable.

On my box...these were max temps ... will give you an idea of what to expect with each bump....

4.4 CPU / 4.4 Cache / 2400 temps were 61, 61, 58, 56
4.5 CPU / 4.5 Cache / 2400 temps were 67, 66, 60, 58
4.6 CPU / 4.6 Cache / 2400 temps were 72, 72, 68, 62

What max voltage are you hitting (will be during Open CL test) ?


 
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Open CL on the benchmark test? Didn't reach the 70s I know that, because I have my toolbar core temps set to alert me when going over 70. And its hard to take a screen shot, because it wants to stop if you move mouse lol. But I'll get you specs with my next push
 
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Yeah But you was saying the open CL and I was thinking you was refering to the open CL test on the benchmark. When I run the stress, as far as I can tell, it's one long test instead of a series of test. I just picked 8 gigs of ram and ran 2hrs. I ran both!
 
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If ya watch JJ's (Asus) videos on overclocking, they recommend keeping cache multiplier within 3 of CPU multiplier as "some application's performance will be negatively affected". I have personally conformed this but so far the only applications affected that I have found is image editing ... real bench will confirm ..... but always disregard the 1st run.

Do 11 runs and average the last 10 to make comparisons
 
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11 stress runs or benchmarks??
 
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Tried to bring catch up to 40 this morning but got a OC fail, which I'm not that worried about at the moment, since I don,t do any video editing. But I'll eventually play with it also I'm sure lol. I'm just happy to have my system stable where it's at now.
And so you suggest I go ahead and run 11 stages of benchmark test also?? Thats probably just as much pressure as a stress?
 
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The only reason to run the image editing tests is to confirm for yourself whether the cache ratio is detrimental to performance .... when you OC, you want to keep voltages as low as possible to meet your goals .... so you may want to run at 45 multiplier / 45 cache and then say "wow I don't like that cache voltage of the extra heat.", so by doing a test, you can see whether or not it's "worth" the extra performance. At 46/46 I had more heat than Id like .... so I tries 46/43 and it was significantly lower.... running the test tells me what the performance difference was between 46 and 43.

You don't run the test 10 times to stress the machine, you run it 10 times to get enough results to be statistically valid. Let's say I just ran 4 tests on each and discarded the 1st one ... cause 1st is always very low.

39 cache = 118,817/ 115,522 / 116,530
42 cache = 118,797 / 121,240 / 120,264

So if you just ran the 1st test, you would conclude that 39 was actually better than 42 .... but if you average the 3 tests you can see that 42 does better.

 
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Hey It's me again lol!!!!! I know I must be a pain...
Anyway I got my new RAM kit in, Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX318C10FBK2/16), now I can't get back up to my recent OC. It wouldn't even post at 4.5ghz and keep getting OC fail at 4.2ghz, with even tweeking the cpu voltage up a little higher.
I might try to come down on DRAM frequency, maybe down to 1666 idk.
By the time I get all of this down, I might be able to take up a carrier in this lol
 
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