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- Dec 29, 2016
Hello there, this post may be very long, but please persevere, because it is worth it for the trouble I have gone through. I am getting very desperate on how to fix this problem that I have run into since installing my new parts. About 3 days ago, I installed a brand-new processor and motherboard, the i5 4690K, and the ASUS Z97-P, which tallied upto £300 worth of products at the time. I installed them as usual, take out the old parts, clean the heatsink, re-apply new thermal paste, and put everything back into place, everything seemed fine. I bought this CPU not for the K on the end of the name, but to overclock it to something more than 3.5 GHz, so I did some research on how to overclock properly, and tried it myself, and the results have frightened me.
Before we go any further, here are my PC specs:
i5 4690K 3.5 GHz (Stock)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
ASUS Z97-P M Motherboard
2 x 8 GB Kingston HyperX 1866 Mhz RAM
EVGA GTX 1060 6 GB
Samsung 750 EVO 120 GB SSD
Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Blue HDD
So basically, I wanted to go with the rest of the crowd, and the usual overclock for this CPU, which was 4.2 GHz, so I went into the BIOS, and set the AI Tweaker settings to x42 multiplier for the core ratio, and the voltage to around 1.200 V, but tweaked it a little numerous times. Then I downloaded Prime95 v26.6, OCCT, and Intel Burn Test, and the monitor programs, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, and HWInfo, and firstly, tried a stress test on Prime95 at Small FFT setting, and within 5 minutes the maximum recorded temperature clocked in at 84ºC, which is very high for my specs and the overclock I want to achieve as you can see. So I spent around 3 hours trying any and every little tweak to see the best possible overclock for this amount of core ratio, and the lowest maximum temperature I recorded was 81ºC, which is still stupidly high for 5 minutes, then I tried different overclocks, and the best temperature result for an overclock over 4.0 GHz was 74ºC, which is also very high compared to my specs and the level of overclock I want to achieve. I will post all pictures of my results below my description. After looking on countless forums, making a post for help on Tom's Hardware, and even going out to buy Isopropyl Alcohol, and Microfibre cloth, to reapply my thermal paste to see if it would make a difference, I still haven't found anywhere near to a solution, it just confuses how so many people with very similar, if not identical specs, reach overclocks of 4.5 GHz with maximum temperatures, under 100% stress, of around 60ºC. I don't even want crazy overclocks like that, although it would be nice to think I would have the opportunity to reach those overclocks, but I can't even reach 4.0 GHz without a stupidly high temperature. This is my final attempt to find help on the internet, like forums etc. and if no prevail, I will finally have to seek professional help from an IT business, to find out exactly what is going wrong, which would cost more money.
I just want to enjoy this new CPU at the level it should be at.
Here are some pictures for any further diagnosis (sorry for any messy hand-writing):
Thank you very much for any help or advice, it will be immensely appreciated.
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*the last picture of the stress test was on 4.2 GHz, and only around 1-2 minutes into the test.
Before we go any further, here are my PC specs:
i5 4690K 3.5 GHz (Stock)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
ASUS Z97-P M Motherboard
2 x 8 GB Kingston HyperX 1866 Mhz RAM
EVGA GTX 1060 6 GB
Samsung 750 EVO 120 GB SSD
Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Blue HDD
So basically, I wanted to go with the rest of the crowd, and the usual overclock for this CPU, which was 4.2 GHz, so I went into the BIOS, and set the AI Tweaker settings to x42 multiplier for the core ratio, and the voltage to around 1.200 V, but tweaked it a little numerous times. Then I downloaded Prime95 v26.6, OCCT, and Intel Burn Test, and the monitor programs, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, and HWInfo, and firstly, tried a stress test on Prime95 at Small FFT setting, and within 5 minutes the maximum recorded temperature clocked in at 84ºC, which is very high for my specs and the overclock I want to achieve as you can see. So I spent around 3 hours trying any and every little tweak to see the best possible overclock for this amount of core ratio, and the lowest maximum temperature I recorded was 81ºC, which is still stupidly high for 5 minutes, then I tried different overclocks, and the best temperature result for an overclock over 4.0 GHz was 74ºC, which is also very high compared to my specs and the level of overclock I want to achieve. I will post all pictures of my results below my description. After looking on countless forums, making a post for help on Tom's Hardware, and even going out to buy Isopropyl Alcohol, and Microfibre cloth, to reapply my thermal paste to see if it would make a difference, I still haven't found anywhere near to a solution, it just confuses how so many people with very similar, if not identical specs, reach overclocks of 4.5 GHz with maximum temperatures, under 100% stress, of around 60ºC. I don't even want crazy overclocks like that, although it would be nice to think I would have the opportunity to reach those overclocks, but I can't even reach 4.0 GHz without a stupidly high temperature. This is my final attempt to find help on the internet, like forums etc. and if no prevail, I will finally have to seek professional help from an IT business, to find out exactly what is going wrong, which would cost more money.
I just want to enjoy this new CPU at the level it should be at.
Here are some pictures for any further diagnosis (sorry for any messy hand-writing):
Thank you very much for any help or advice, it will be immensely appreciated.
- - - Updated - - -
*the last picture of the stress test was on 4.2 GHz, and only around 1-2 minutes into the test.
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