The other day I built a new PC, specs are below:
Asus Prime Z370-A
8700K @ Stock (3.7), cooled by a Corsair H100i V2
Corsair Vengeance 2x8 3200 (But is at Stock)
PSU: EVGA 750W (exact model escapes me)
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC
Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2 NVMe for boot
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SATA for storage
So here’s my problem. Or is it a problem? Let’s find out. As any new owner of an 8700K would do, I immediately attempted to overclock it to 5GHz, and was initially successful with 1.36 VCore. I got this “success” from 20 loops of Intel Burn Test on Standard settings. Once I finished that I was feeling pretty good, but decided to run Maximum settings too, which uses more RAM. I never got a specific failure message, but my machine definitely froze a few times and I ended the test because it spooked me.
So I took my OC down a bit in both clock and voltage, IIRC it was 4.8 at 1.3 voltage. Similar story. Freezes on max.
So then I decided for the hell of it to do IBT Max on fully standard settings. I’m talking stock speeds and voltages on both my processor AND RAM. The RAM was over clocked to its advertised speeds of 3200 for the two overclocking attempts.
To my surprise the freezing still happened with fully stock everything.
Now, I know that IBT Max is a far bigger load then I would EVER need on this PC, considering it’s basically for gaming and a bit of streaming to twitch here and there. But I find it strange that this freezing is happening at stock. Again, my PC never crashed, BSOD, or gave me a failure message for the stress test, but I never ran it long enough to get a success either.
Also, I ran 4 loops of MemTest86 and my RAM appears to be fine.
Soooo what could be happening here? Should I be worried? I haven’t experienced any performance issues whatsoever when gaming (constant 300 FPS in CSGO, 140 FPS in PUBG for a two hour session), but I want to make sure it’s even save for me to overclock at this point.
Thanks in advance and happy holidays!
Asus Prime Z370-A
8700K @ Stock (3.7), cooled by a Corsair H100i V2
Corsair Vengeance 2x8 3200 (But is at Stock)
PSU: EVGA 750W (exact model escapes me)
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC
Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2 NVMe for boot
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SATA for storage
So here’s my problem. Or is it a problem? Let’s find out. As any new owner of an 8700K would do, I immediately attempted to overclock it to 5GHz, and was initially successful with 1.36 VCore. I got this “success” from 20 loops of Intel Burn Test on Standard settings. Once I finished that I was feeling pretty good, but decided to run Maximum settings too, which uses more RAM. I never got a specific failure message, but my machine definitely froze a few times and I ended the test because it spooked me.
So I took my OC down a bit in both clock and voltage, IIRC it was 4.8 at 1.3 voltage. Similar story. Freezes on max.
So then I decided for the hell of it to do IBT Max on fully standard settings. I’m talking stock speeds and voltages on both my processor AND RAM. The RAM was over clocked to its advertised speeds of 3200 for the two overclocking attempts.
To my surprise the freezing still happened with fully stock everything.
Now, I know that IBT Max is a far bigger load then I would EVER need on this PC, considering it’s basically for gaming and a bit of streaming to twitch here and there. But I find it strange that this freezing is happening at stock. Again, my PC never crashed, BSOD, or gave me a failure message for the stress test, but I never ran it long enough to get a success either.
Also, I ran 4 loops of MemTest86 and my RAM appears to be fine.
Soooo what could be happening here? Should I be worried? I haven’t experienced any performance issues whatsoever when gaming (constant 300 FPS in CSGO, 140 FPS in PUBG for a two hour session), but I want to make sure it’s even save for me to overclock at this point.
Thanks in advance and happy holidays!
