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Hey, so I've been having trouble with my PC since I put it together with a friend of mine last year. We found it to be drastically under-performing given its overkill levels of part quality. We found that it may have been because the RAM I had gotten was not on the official QVL of the motherboard I had (oops). I thought since I got new RAM that was on the QVL, it would finally start performing to expectations, but it's still giving me trouble. For example, when I run it at all stock settings, I get a Cinebench R20 score of about 4696, a timespy score of about 12900, and a Firestrike Ultra score of about 7990. However, when I overclock my CPU to 5.0 GHz (the lowest voltage I could get it stable at was 1.33 volts which my computer automatically moves up to 1.346 for some reason), I only get a Cinebench score of 4790-4900, a Timespy score of 13200-300ish, and a firestrike ultra score of 8000ish. I tried turning XMP on setting 1 (setting one takes the RAM to 4000MHz whereas setting 2 takes it to 3600 MHz), and XMP makes no difference if not makes it worse by bringing the scores down by 100 or so points each test. I tried raising the DRAM voltage to different degrees, and lowering it as well but it makes no noticeable difference. I tried messing with the Ring Ratio, but all that did was make my OC unstable so I left it at default (4300 MHz) I did not turn on my GPU overclock for any of these tests, so I know it's not that. Also, before you ask, yes I believe the overclock is stable. It withstood all those benchmarks just fine as well as Prime95 (small FFTs) for about 2 hours with no errors or crashes and Prime 95 (blend) for about 6 hours with no errors or crashes. I'm honestly at a loss here, and I'm relatively new to overclocking so I'm open to all kinds of suggestions. I'm attaching screenshots of almost every part of my BIOS to help, and I'm willing to add more if needed. Thanks, and if you're in the Bay Area and know a lot about this stuff feel free to let me know and maybe I'll pay you to just come do it for me.
Hey, so I've been having trouble with my PC since I put it together with a friend of mine last year. We found it to be drastically under-performing given its overkill levels of part quality. We found that it may have been because the RAM I had gotten was not on the official QVL of the motherboard I had (oops). I thought since I got new RAM that was on the QVL, it would finally start performing to expectations, but it's still giving me trouble. For example, when I run it at all stock settings, I get a Cinebench R20 score of about 4696, a timespy score of about 12900, and a Firestrike Ultra score of about 7990. However, when I overclock my CPU to 5.0 GHz (the lowest voltage I could get it stable at was 1.33 volts which my computer automatically moves up to 1.346 for some reason), I only get a Cinebench score of 4790-4900, a Timespy score of 13200-300ish, and a firestrike ultra score of 8000ish. I tried turning XMP on setting 1 (setting one takes the RAM to 4000MHz whereas setting 2 takes it to 3600 MHz), and XMP makes no difference if not makes it worse by bringing the scores down by 100 or so points each test. I tried raising the DRAM voltage to different degrees, and lowering it as well but it makes no noticeable difference. I tried messing with the Ring Ratio, but all that did was make my OC unstable so I left it at default (4300 MHz) I did not turn on my GPU overclock for any of these tests, so I know it's not that. Also, before you ask, yes I believe the overclock is stable. It withstood all those benchmarks just fine as well as Prime95 (small FFTs) for about 2 hours with no errors or crashes and Prime 95 (blend) for about 6 hours with no errors or crashes. I'm honestly at a loss here, and I'm relatively new to overclocking so I'm open to all kinds of suggestions. I'm attaching screenshots of almost every part of my BIOS to help, and I'm willing to add more if needed. Thanks, and if you're in the Bay Area and know a lot about this stuff feel free to let me know and maybe I'll pay you to just come do it for me.
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