Question Youtube Overclocking Video

[Kinnyr90]

Hi My question is in regards to overclocking Not my Graphics card but my cpu. I have a Gigabyte Z 370 Gaming 7 Motherboard I believe I have a 1151 socket I have a core i7 Intel processor .stock running at 3.7 and it has 12 cores. I have fans in my desktop computer mid tower custom built Not sure how many fans but I know I have sufficent cooling. I just know that I do not have a liguid cooling system I have 64 gigs of memory Crucial Name brand (2400) (1200) (ddr4) dual channel) core speed 500 Gz from stock which is 3.70 Core voltage 1.344 V Memory uncore frequency 400 MHZ Dram Frequency 1200. Have not yet used any benmarking software. (ddr4 2400 1200MHZ) Model Crucial Dram Micron technology. Nvidia Geforce 1050 Graphics 2 Gigs memory size memory 405.0 MHZ.Max tdp they say if it's 15 W or under you can't overclock Mine is at 95.0 I guess I can overclock. Lol.

So my question I guess is after I do the overclock that I got from watching a youtube video. This guy had the same motherBoard that I have Gigabyte z370 Gaming 7 same memory 64 gigs. I'm not sure who the Manufacturer is of his memory. So I just whent into the Bios and did it. And then set the XMP Profile to Profile 1.. So far so good and I did all of this after a complete reinstall Of windows . So My question is after doing all of this . I shouldn't use programs Like Process Lasso or quick CPU Or core parking right? Anything that makes it so that your using all of the cores on your processor. In my case it's 12. I shouldn't use these programs right? I should just stick to using a single core right? Because it will cause stability issues right? Oh and I have my Power managment set to High perfromance. But I wouldn't want to use bitsum with the Process lasso program or Quick cpu software right? Avoid these softwares. Right?

 

[hotaru.hino]

So My question is after doing all of this . I shouldn't use programs Like Process Lasso or quick CPU Or core parking right? Anything that makes it so that your using all of the cores on your processor. In my case it's 12. I shouldn't use these programs right? I should just stick to using a single core right? Because it will cause stability issues right? Oh and I have my Power managment set to High perfromance. But I wouldn't want to use bitsum with the Process lasso program or Quick cpu software right? Avoid these softwares. Right?

You don't need to use any of these programs. Just let the OS take care of things. And if you really need to adjust something regarding the application's CPU usage, set processor affinity in Task Manager. But that should only be necessary in extreme cases.

 

[lolvatveo]

download intel extreme tuning old version and easytune can help you overclock with this board. and never disable any c state or intel eist, speed shift... when overclock. must enable all these settings. don't use high performance power plan in windows settings, it not let your system idle when underload

 

[Kinnyr90]

Okay.

Thank you. And it's okay to have my power scheme set to high perfrmance Right? And M

download intel extreme tuning old version and easytune can help you overclock with this board. and never disable any c state or intel eist, speed shift... when overclock. must enable all these settings. don't use high performance power plan in windows settings, it not let your system idle when underload

Okay so what should I use as a power scheme. and should I turn

download intel extreme tuning old version and easytune can help you overclock with this board. and never disable any c state or intel eist, speed shift... when overclock. must enable all these settings. don't use high performance power plan in windows settings, it not let your system idle when underload

I watched a youtube video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZkEZ8x3oA
Okay so what should I have my power scheme set to I only have high performance and balanced. So set it to balanced. and what should I have set in the advanced power options. Please could you watch this video and get back to me I would so appreciate it. Also do they make an external fan for a desktop computer mid tower like mine that plugs into a usb port? And how would I uuse it I think I need to buy one. I'm only using fans no liguid cooling.
So I'm not doing intel or easy tune.
Thank you

 

[Kinnyr90]

Okay.

Thank you. And it's okay to have my power scheme set to high perfrmance Right? And M

Okay so what should I use as a power scheme. and should I turn

I watched a youtube video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZkEZ8x3oA
Okay so what should I have my power scheme set to I only have high performance and balanced. So set it to balanced. and what should I have set in the advanced power options. Please could you watch this video and get back to me I would so appreciate it. Also do they make an external fan for a desktop computer mid tower like mine that plugs into a usb port? And how would I uuse it I think I need to buy one. I'm only using fans no liguid cooling.
So I'm not doing intel or easy tune.
Thank you

So should I used balanced for my power scheme?

 

[Kinnyr90]

download intel extreme tuning old version and easytune can help you overclock with this board. and never disable any c state or intel eist, speed shift... when overclock. must enable all these settings. don't use high performance power plan in windows settings, it not let your system idle when underload

Okay I have my power scheme set to balanced thank you so much for telling me I didn't need the high performance power scheme. and I don't have the sleep mode turned on or the hard disk is set to never turn off and so is the monitor Hybrid sleep is off. Montior sleep is off. Minimum processor state is at 5% Maximum is at 100 by default I didn't change anything. Is all of this okay?

 

[CountMike]

Okay I have my power scheme set to balanced thank you so much for telling me I didn't need the high performance power scheme. and I don't have the sleep mode turned on or the hard disk is set to never turn off and so is the monitor Hybrid sleep is off. Montior sleep is off. Minimum processor state is at 5% Maximum is at 100 by default I didn't change anything. Is all of this okay?

Every windows power scheme can be adjusted to work same. If you just adjust Minimum CPU state to 5% you get full performance during boost stages and low at idle. If you lower Maximum state to 99% it will run up to nominal frequency without boost. Further reduction lowers it even more.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Okay so do they make external fans for my mid tower cpu that plug into usb. I would imagine they go on the top fan on The outside my case. I will figure out how to use it. I'm not sure if I need some more cooling going on inside the cpu. In this case from the outside in where I want an external usb fan. I mean I do have my processor overclocked from 3.70 GHZ All the ways to 5.00 GHZ. Could you guys maybe send me a link to the one I should buy. Like from Amazon. And as for the power scheme I guess I have it set the right way Minimal processor state is set to 5%. I heard you say that setting there is fine and as it should be .

 

[Kinnyr90]

I wish you guys or Count Mike wouuld watch the you tube video that I sent but if not that's fine. I guess I will close this chat out.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Hi I had the post My youtube overclock I think my overclock went bad My mouse was not working anymore then my key board So I went into the bios and disable the xmp profile from profile 1 and I guess that loads back all of the deafult back into the system even thought the numbers and the base clock will still show up at 100 etc Did I do the right thing just by disabling profile 1 or was I supposed to also load the optimzed defaults in my gigabyte z370 gaming 7 motherboard? And I don't think the motherboard went bad persay I think I need another power supply which I hopefully will get tomorrow. and as I said in my post titled you tube overclock, I have 2 external fans coming Wednesday that sit on top of the case flat over the vents that nblow out the heat. Please The over clock I did again was this you tube video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZkEZ8x3oA

 

[Kinnyr90]

I'm so worried. I don't think clearly when I'm worried my nerves kind of take over. Please I'm asking if you could be empathetic I disablede profile 1 in the bios but the overcloking parameter are still showing in the bios and in windows cpu z is still showing at 5.00 MHZ for a clock speed so I'm wondering why I hope disbaling the xmp profile 1 disabled the over clock and brought me back to the factory deafults. But I'm assuming that the reason the hard war like the keybaord and the mouse would stop working in windows and I would have to restart the computer to get them to work again only to have them conk out again is because My computer doesn't have enough power to run them with this overclock and I should upgrade the power supply right? And get the 2 extra fans I hope they will be enough although I'm just guess ing but I don't think I have and more room for any extra fans in my computer but I guess I will find out tomorrow.

Thank you so much!!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I went into the bios and disable the xmp profile from profile 1 and I guess that loads back all of the deafult

no, disabling this XMP profile just loads your motherboard's default values for RAM in general.
all other settings are still whatever you altered them to be.

you should choose the option to "load optimized defaults".

 

[Kinnyr90]

Okay thank you But let me ask okay and I'm very sorry for some of this sites mistakes that I have made. I have learning disablilities Autism. Do you think the behavior with the overclock that it's more than likley that I need a more powerful power supply? and some more cooling. I mean other than that I don't see why I wouldn't be able to overclock. So I'm going to go and Load optimized deafults and then after Wednesday when I have the more powerful power supply and the fans sitting on top of my case lying flat. I will try the overclock again. See I would be in windows and all of a sudden I would have no more mouse pointer and the keyboard would stop working and my pluggable 2.5 GHZ adapter would stop working and there plugged into a usb 3. o hum with I believe has 6 ports on it. Like I said I would restart windows it would work for a few min literally and then conk out on me.So it sounds like I need more power with the new power supply and the fans are going to help too assuming that this is in part a cooling issue and theres too much heat. I still have just the profile xmp disabled from profile 1 I have not yet loaded the optimized defaults in the bios. So I'm assuming that The processor end of this overclock works but because I don't have a powerful enough power supply that's why I can't have the memory overcloked. Because I'm assuming that when you disable The xmp profile you only disable the memory overclock anbd that's it. And of course for the rest with the processor Imwould have to load the optimized defaults.

Thank you so much!! for your speedy response.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

fans sitting on top of my case lying flat

why do you want external fans running on the top?

if there are available vents then the fans would go inside the case attached to the ceiling of the tower.

if there are no vents available then these fans will serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

if there are already fans installed on the inside of this location exhausting out then adding these two more fans will still serve no purpose whatsoever.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Okay

why do you want external fans running on the top?

if there are available vents then the fans would go inside the case attached to the ceiling of the tower.

if there are no vents available then these fans will serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

if there are already fans installed on the inside of this location exhausting out then adding these two more fans will still serve no purpose whatsoever.

Yeah I guess your right. Thankfully I only paid 20 dollars for them on Amamzon so I will take the lose. I bought these external fans because I don't think I have any room for any other fans inside my mid tower case. But I could be wrong maybe I should have found out for sure before I bought these external fans but like I said they were only 20 bucks for 2. Okay so I guess what I'm wondering is I have the xmp profile disabled in the bios. So having that set to profile 1 was just strictly for the memory portion if this overclock and not for the processor? Because after disabling the xmp profile The base clock is still at 100 somwe of the overclock is still showing in the bios and when I go back into windows the core clock speed for the processor is still at 500 MHZ. But I think the dram speed on the memory is back to default. I guess that's what disabling that xmp profile from profile 1 to disabled did. In the bios. And it's been an hour since I had the problems with my keyboard dying on me and my mouse and my external 2.5 gbps Usb ethernet adapter. Before disabling the xmp profile in the bios. But now that's been an hour after disabling I have not had any issues at all. and they were happening every literally like 5 min when I had the profile saved to profile1. So I have to assume that I have enough power to run the processor Overclock but that's it I can't overclock my 64 Gigs ddr4 dual channel (2400) at 1(200) I guess the 1200 is the bandwidth or the speed of the memory. My question to you and this is kind of important when I had the xmp profile set to profile 1 and the memory was being overclocked in conjunction with the Processor I'm not sure that I saw any Noticable speed difference with having the memory overclocked in conjunction with the Processor. Becaususe I can say that because Now with just the processor overclocked. I don;t see any increase in speed without the memory than I did with it The speed seemed to be the same even with the memory overclocked.. So I'm wondering what specificlly should I be looking for in a speed increase If I go out and have another higher wattage power supply put in my computer and maybe some more fans in my case . and then come home and go back to profile 1 and have the memory Overclocked.?? What does the memory overclock portion of this overclock or profile 1. what exactly does it do what are the benefits. I don't see any speed increase or any less speed not to say that there isn't maybe I need to be doing something specific in windows to notice it for the memory overclock. I'm asking because the new Power supply and the fans could get kind of expensive a little bit. And I'm not sure I want to invest the money just to get my system home and not sotice any kind of a further speed increase by Hitting profile 1 and having the memory overclocked as well. So do you think it's worth it for me to get the power supply?? Oh I forgot. Let me ask why don't you think these external fans would do anything? Isn't that what there designed to do? L ay flat on the top of your mid tower or full tower pc where the vents are where the hot air comes out and bring more cooling back into the pc? I dont understand why they wouldn't work especially if I have no extra space for any Internal fans?

 

[Kinnyr90]

I hope I'm not waisting my money buying the more powerful power supply just so that I can use profile 1 in my bios to over cclock my memory and Processor simultaneously. That's why I'm wondering what the benefit is to overclocking rthe memory I just did't see any more speed increase than I already do with just having the processor overclocked.. But maybe I'm just not doing the right tasks in windows I don't think that's it but it's possible. Or maybe there ism a difference but not enough for the average user to notice a difference. If there will be a noticable different I will get the power supply. if not then I guess I won't bother.

 

[CountMike]

I hope I'm not waisting my money buying the more powerful power supply just so that I can use profile 1 in my bios to over cclock my memory and Processor simultaneously. That's why I'm wondering what the benefit is to overclocking rthe memory I just did't see any more speed increase than I already do with just having the processor overclocked.. But maybe I'm just not doing the right tasks in windows I don't think that's it but it's possible. Or maybe there ism a difference but not enough for the average user to notice a difference. If there will be a noticable different I will get the power supply. if not then I guess I won't bother.

Overclocking CPU and RAM doesn't raise power PSU requirements by much. it would have to be right at edge of normally required power but VRM on the MB may be inadequate. Other than that PSU stability may be put to test when overclocking because you are pushing CPU and RAM past it's tested point.
As for overclocking RAM. few hundred MHz (over it's XMP) all by itself doesn't mean much but you are also overclocking IMC (Internal Memory Controller) which is in the processor but not directly connected to Core overclock. They are OC-ed separately.
One otherway to OC is to adjust FSB (Front Side Bus) if there's a BIOS option because CPU(Core)frequency = Multiplier * FSB but must be careful as that also affects Chipset and PCI(e) frequencies.
Old overclocker's wisdom says to test stability limits of each component while others are at default values. Only after that you can combine them. Takes time and patience to get proper results.
PS:
I've been overclocking since 1980s even when it meant soldering and changing MB components.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Overclocking CPU and RAM doesn't raise power PSU requirements by much. it would have to be right at edge of normally required power but VRM on the MB may be inadequate. Other than that PSU stability may be put to test when overclocking because you are pushing CPU and RAM past it's tested point.
As for overclocking RAM. few hundred MHz (over it's XMP) all by itself doesn't mean much but you are also overclocking IMC (Internal Memory Controller) which is in the processor but not directly connected to Core overclock. They are OC-ed separately.
One otherway to OC is to adjust FSB (Front Side Bus) if there's a BIOS option because CPU(Core)frequency = Multiplier * FSB but must be careful as that also affects Chipset and PCI(e) frequencies.
Old overclocker's wisdom says to test stability limits of each component while others are at default values. Only after that you can combine them. Takes time and patience to get proper results.
PS:
I've been overclocking since 1980s even when it meant soldering and changing MB components.

Thank you for your response... Count Mike. Like I said... Last night my mouse stopped working my keyboard stopped working and My 2.5 gig Usb to ethernet adapter stopped working. So when I went into the bios disabled the xmp profile everything was fine again. So I assume that the problem lies with my overclocking the memory. Now the memory itself isn't bad but for some reason I can't do the extreme memory profile and can't overclock the memory or take it to the next level. But disabling the xmp overclock. The processor is still overclocked . Because I have checked it in the bios. Also with cpu-z in windows 11 and everything is fine no slow downs no crashes nothing. So my question to you Count Mike is? Is it still worth it for me to air on the side of caution and go out and have another power supply put in my system? I mean if this is not a power issue. Then what should I do I mean I don't want o get rid of the overclock by reloading the optimized fefaults in the bios. and I don't want to make any changes to this overclock except for the one that I have already done. Which is disabling the Xmp profile. Because I really don't know what I'm doing. Like my Said I did all of this from watching a you tube video I have the video playing on my phone while I was doing this, And I also like I said in past messages I went out and bought 2 external fans. that sit flat on top of my case and plug into my usb ports. So I can have more cooling going back the the cpu, through the vents on top of my case. So Count Mike at least in your opinion given that you now know what my specs are for My desktop mid tower custom built. Do you think I will see a noticable speed increase by haveing the internal memory overclocked or whatever is going to happen by enabling the xmp profile in the bios to profile 1??? If not well then my plan might be still to air on the side of caution and go out and get another power supply just for the fact that I'm still overclocking the processor. Thank you!!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

whatever is going to happen by enabling the xmp profile in the bios to profile 1?

enabling XMP only loads the RAM itself's default clock speeds.

without it enabled they are running at the motherboard's default speed which is usually quite slow in comparison to allow all models to be installed and loaded without issue.

 

[CountMike]

Thank you for your response... Count Mike. Like I said... Last night my mouse stopped working my keyboard stopped working and My 2.5 gig Usb to ethernet adapter stopped working. So when I went into the bios disabled the xmp profile everything was fine again. So I assume that the problem lies with my overclocking the memory. Now the memory itself isn't bad but for some reason I can't do the extreme memory profile and can't overclock the memory or take it to the next level. But disabling the xmp overclock. The processor is still overclocked . Because I have checked it in the bios. Also with cpu-z in windows 11 and everything is fine no slow downs no crashes nothing. So my question to you Count Mike is? Is it still worth it for me to air on the side of caution and go out and have another power supply put in my system? I mean if this is not a power issue. Then what should I do I mean I don't want o get rid of the overclock by reloading the optimized fefaults in the bios. and I don't want to make any changes to this overclock except for the one that I have already done. Which is disabling the Xmp profile. Because I really don't know what I'm doing. Like my Said I did all of this from watching a you tube video I have the video playing on my phone while I was doing this, And I also like I said in past messages I went out and bought 2 external fans. that sit flat on top of my case and plug into my usb ports. So I can have more cooling going back the the cpu, through the vents on top of my case. So Count Mike at least in your opinion given that you now know what my specs are for My desktop mid tower custom built. Do you think I will see a noticable speed increase by haveing the internal memory overclocked or whatever is going to happen by enabling the xmp profile in the bios to profile 1??? If not well then my plan might be still to air on the side of caution and go out and get another power supply just for the fact that I'm still overclocking the processor. Thank you!!

Problem with those Youtube and such tutorials is that you can never have identical system as parts even with same parts are never identical but have slightly different potential, from binning to "Silicon lottery", can't just copy verbatim everything, much of it you have to experiment with yourself. There are schools of overclocking, One is to start with some expected to work maximums and lower until you achieve stability. Other one is to start small and in small steps and back off a step when it becomes unstable. Notice I use term"Stability" a lot because without it all OC is for nought.
Also, when you OC any part at some point you have to raise voltage and power to it but that will raise temps which can negate results.
Case in point that RAM and it's top XMP profile. BIOS may not interpret it properly and leave voltage to low so you can manually raise it a bit, in steps of about 0.05v, DDR4 is good to 1.6v+ but 1.35v about standard for 3200 MHz and up so for instance 1,4v is not going to damage it. XMP is not written in stone but in RAM chips as an advisory to BIOS to set up some parameters and may not be all that good for particular setup, every parameter can be also adjusted manually. That maybe too much work and gain of few MHz may not result in more than 0.01% performance overall and just one or couple of FPS in games.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Problem with those Youtube and such tutorials is that you can never have identical system as parts even with same parts are never identical but have slightly different potential, from binning to "Silicon lottery", can't just copy verbatim everything, much of it you have to experiment with yourself. There are schools of overclocking, One is to start with some expected to work maximums and lower until you achieve stability. Other one is to start small and in small steps and back off a step when it becomes unstable. Notice I use term"Stability" a lot because without it all OC is for nought.
Also, when you OC any part at some point you have to raise voltage and power to it but that will raise temps which can negate results.
Case in point that RAM and it's top XMP profile. BIOS may not interpret it properly and leave voltage to low so you can manually raise it a bit, in steps of about 0.05v, DDR4 is good to 1.6v+ but 1.35v about standard for 3200 MHz and up so for instance 1,4v is not going to damage it. XMP is not written in stone but in RAM chips as an advisory to BIOS to set up some parameters and may not be all that good for particular setup, every parameter can be also adjusted manually. That maybe too much work and gain of few MHz may not result in more than 0.01% performance overall and just one or couple of FPS in games.

Thanks everyone for all this information . The overclocking for me on Just the processor and whatever memoiry is on the processor seems fine. I'm not going to spend the money then on a higher Power supply.. Unless I need it. and the overclocking of the regular conventional 64 gigs ddr4 dual channel. I don;t think I will see a much better performance in terms of speed. Than what I already have with the processor and whatever Vram is associated with the 8700k Core I7 12 core 3.70 Overclocked to 5.00. What do you think do you think I should get the higher power supply. A simple yes or no will do to make it easier on you guys given all the attention to my original post you have already given me. See I didn't want to take the chance and do this overclock literally on my own because this is the only computer I have and I could not afford right now to buy another one at this time. So doing this overclock from the youtube video gave me some peace of mind, because as you guys know from the you tube video for those that watched it. He had the same board the same processor same memory ddr4 dual channel 2400 1200 The only thing at least from the video is that he's not using fans he's using a liquid cooling system. So I have no idea what type of speed increase even further than what I have now. That I would get. But how fast do I really want or need this computer to be. My computer is fast I have the processor overclocked combined with a lot of windows tweaks. I have my power scheme set to balanced I have Hibernate turned off. I have all sleep turned off. The monitor stays on I have My Minimum processor state set to 5% and my Maximum set too 100%. And my graphics card I wouldn'rt even attempt to overclock my Nividia Gtx 1050 ddr5 memory size =2 gig And I keep my computer running all the time. I never shut it down for the night before I go to bed. and I have 2 external usb fans coming today for more colling going back into the cpu I guess they lay flat on top of the cpu Over the vents that are blowing out the hot air So Lets hope for the best with these fans and hope I get some added piece of mind with them. You guys can close this chat I'm not sure how to close this chat and make it done.

 

[Kinnyr90]

Problem with those Youtube and such tutorials is that you can never have identical system as parts even with same parts are never identical but have slightly different potential, from binning to "Silicon lottery", can't just copy verbatim everything, much of it you have to experiment with yourself. There are schools of overclocking, One is to start with some expected to work maximums and lower until you achieve stability. Other one is to start small and in small steps and back off a step when it becomes unstable. Notice I use term"Stability" a lot because without it all OC is for nought.
Also, when you OC any part at some point you have to raise voltage and power to it but that will raise temps which can negate results.
Case in point that RAM and it's top XMP profile. BIOS may not interpret it properly and leave voltage to low so you can manually raise it a bit, in steps of about 0.05v, DDR4 is good to 1.6v+ but 1.35v about standard for 3200 MHz and up so for instance 1,4v is not going to damage it. XMP is not written in stone but in RAM chips as an advisory to BIOS to set up some parameters and may not be all that good for particular setup, every parameter can be also adjusted manually. That maybe too much work and gain of few MHz may not result in more than 0.01% performance overall and just one or couple of FPS in games.

Right that's the answer I was looking for, I think. When you said the work and the bother to go through just for a few tickas of gain in Mhz for the memory overclock is not really worth it. And I'm not a gamer. So I'm going to leave my system as it is. with just the processor and whatever else it overclocked off of the processor The processor memory. Like I said when I set the xmp profile to profile 1 in the bios Literally after like 5 min my Mouse stopped working My keyboard stopped working and My external 2.5 usb to ethernet controller stopped working. And when I disabled the xmp profile 12 in my bios all of a sudeden The hardware started working again without any problems since. So far that is. So that's not a Coincidence that all of a sudden my hardware started working again. See the hardware being my mouse and keyboard stopped working and then If I unplugged and plugged back in the mouse and keyboard they would work again for like 5 min and the same for the external ethernet.but that would give me enough time to restart my pc and hit the delet key to enter the bios and disable the xmp profile. So that's where I'm at. I'm just going to keep everything the way it is. If I was to do something like this on my own it would be a recipe for disaster. I'm not about to take that chance. Of frying anything. But everyones advice and suggestions has been great thank you so much!!!!!

 

[CountMike]

Right that's the answer I was looking for, I think. When you said the work and the bother to go through just for a few tickas of gain in Mhz for the memory overclock is not really worth it. And I'm not a gamer. So I'm going to leave my system as it is. with just the processor and whatever else it overclocked off of the processor The processor memory. Like I said when I set the xmp profile to profile 1 in the bios Literally after like 5 min my Mouse stopped working My keyboard stopped working and My external 2.5 usb to ethernet controller stopped working. And when I disabled the xmp profile 12 in my bios all of a sudeden The hardware started working again without any problems since. So far that is. So that's not a Coincidence that all of a sudden my hardware started working again. See the hardware being my mouse and keyboard stopped working and then If I unplugged and plugged back in the mouse and keyboard they would work again for like 5 min and the same for the external ethernet.but that would give me enough time to restart my pc and hit the delet key to enter the bios and disable the xmp profile. So that's where I'm at. I'm just going to keep everything the way it is. If I was to do something like this on my own it would be a recipe for disaster. I'm not about to take that chance. Of frying anything. But everyones advice and suggestions has been great thank you so much!!!!!

Don't forget that anything that happens in computer involves memory so any problems in memory are reflected in other functions. Whatever CPU computes goes in and out of RAM which keeps data for GPU to display and to be written to storage and red from it. Everything has to work as a unit and weakest link can ruin everything.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I have my power scheme set to balanced

this is going to limit performance in all areas.

the overclocking of the regular conventional 64 gigs ddr4 dual channel.

if you are not setting the XMP profile or manually entering the correct speed, timings, etc then you are in affect 'down-clocking' the RAM to the motherboard's generic profile and losing performance in all aspects of the system.

in this particular situation the amount of RAM isn't as much of a concern as the speed at which it runs.
64GB may sound great but only running at 2400MHz means that the entire system is held back.


your issues with external devices sounds like this is just a bad motherboard.

i haven't noticed you mention which case you are actually using.
but these external fans sound like a pretty 'dumb' idea in general. not saying you in particular suffer that, just the fact that this money could be put towards a much better case that would positively affect the entire situation vs buying something like this.

 

[hotaru.hino]

this is going to limit performance in all areas.

This is largely a myth. Especially given that I just tried this out on Cinebench 2024 and the scores were basically within a margin of noise.

Even switching to "High performance" doesn't actually keep the CPU firing all the time, if HWiNFO's effective core clock statistic means anything regarding that since it didn't dramatically budge between "Balanced" and "High performance"