Recently I bought a Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Extreme GPU. While trying to cram that beast inside the case, I basically broke my mobo. I figured that was a divine message telling me it was time to upgrade my whole system. That's what I did. Here is my configuration.
CPU: i5 6600K
Cooler: Coolermaster 212 Evo
MOBO: Gigabyte Z170-HD3-CF
RAM: 16GB Single stick Kingstin Fury DDR4 2134mhz(while buying i though this was 2x8 later I didn't want to wait for a replacement. )
GPU: Zotac GTX 1070 Amp Extreme(da beast)
Obviously, the first thing I did after setting up Windows 10 was delving into the overclock. On my mobo there is a preset overclock setting. I selected "i5 6600K 4.4". Booted up the windows, run Prime95 small FFT test. And in short order saw my first BSOD.
Decided to mess around with voltages, after some trial and error, I changed vCore from AUTO to 1,280V, disabled AUTO on the other voltage settings and basically left them stock. Run prime95 for 2-3 hours. No problems at all. Temp doesn't go higher than 76. System is rock solid. I actually run Furmark alongside Prime95 for a few hours. No problems.
After a while I wanted to push my oc a little further. I saw lots of people reaching 4.8Ghz with this setup.
Thing is, as soon as I change the preset 4.4Ghz overclock and switch to manual, I see crashes. Pushed the vCore as high as 1.4V. No use. Prime95 says returned a wrong value or something, then PC crashes.
Tried disabling Intel Turbo, disabling power states, nothing works. If the preset 4.4 wasn't running so smoothly I'd blame the "silicon lottery" and go on with my life but, using manual settings I can't even get a stable 4.4Ghz. So I'm clearly doing something wrong. Unfortunately there are no presets for clock ratios higher than 4.4Ghz. So I have do use manual.
So my question is, if anyone has that same mobo, what settings I should change to get at least a stable 4.4Ghz manually? What settings those presets change to give that rock solid overclock?
PS:I updated bios to latest version 7F I believe
CPU: i5 6600K
Cooler: Coolermaster 212 Evo
MOBO: Gigabyte Z170-HD3-CF
RAM: 16GB Single stick Kingstin Fury DDR4 2134mhz(while buying i though this was 2x8 later I didn't want to wait for a replacement. )
GPU: Zotac GTX 1070 Amp Extreme(da beast)
Obviously, the first thing I did after setting up Windows 10 was delving into the overclock. On my mobo there is a preset overclock setting. I selected "i5 6600K 4.4". Booted up the windows, run Prime95 small FFT test. And in short order saw my first BSOD.
Decided to mess around with voltages, after some trial and error, I changed vCore from AUTO to 1,280V, disabled AUTO on the other voltage settings and basically left them stock. Run prime95 for 2-3 hours. No problems at all. Temp doesn't go higher than 76. System is rock solid. I actually run Furmark alongside Prime95 for a few hours. No problems.
After a while I wanted to push my oc a little further. I saw lots of people reaching 4.8Ghz with this setup.
Thing is, as soon as I change the preset 4.4Ghz overclock and switch to manual, I see crashes. Pushed the vCore as high as 1.4V. No use. Prime95 says returned a wrong value or something, then PC crashes.
Tried disabling Intel Turbo, disabling power states, nothing works. If the preset 4.4 wasn't running so smoothly I'd blame the "silicon lottery" and go on with my life but, using manual settings I can't even get a stable 4.4Ghz. So I'm clearly doing something wrong. Unfortunately there are no presets for clock ratios higher than 4.4Ghz. So I have do use manual.
So my question is, if anyone has that same mobo, what settings I should change to get at least a stable 4.4Ghz manually? What settings those presets change to give that rock solid overclock?
PS:I updated bios to latest version 7F I believe