Did you receive a lemon 9600k?
Did you receive a lemon 9600k?
Good evening, I'm working with a 9600k on an Asus z390 rog strix mobo. It's been a while since I overclocked, the last time was a 3570k at 4.4Ghz with low temps and voltage. I've manually adjusted the CPU core ratio to 51, 50, 49, and 47, but the error still appears randomly. When I change the negative offset to 10 just in case my PC gets overloaded, everything works fine during stress tests. The crashes usually happen when playing games. I have a 2060 and all drivers are up to date. I've read that people with this error might need more voltage? Is that correct? I let the mobo handle it. Even during stress tests, my temps stay below 70. I'm using a Corsair H60i and have a few days before replacing the processor. I won't tell anyone I overclocked it—the salesperson warned me not to. I just want to get my money's worth. Any advice would be appreciated.
I believe you should Synchronize All Cores to adjust the core clock ratio to just 50 once, which will enable applying 5GHz to every core. You should perform Sync All Cores, raising it by one clock at a time—starting from 4.7GHz for all cores and then conducting stress testing, adjusting voltage if necessary.
I didn't mention syncing all cores. I either handled it manually with just the negative offset, or used AI which usually reaches 5Ghz on three cores and 4.9 on the others, though temperatures stay normal during stress tests. Do you think my CPU isn't getting enough voltage when it's needed most, especially while gaming? It had an SSD issue once after booting, but it also occurred during division and Metro Exodus several times. Thanks.
Yeah, I was thinking about boosting the voltage to reach all cores at 5.0. I'm not an expert and honestly, I don't want to mess with my 9900k just for a little tweak. But you should check the maximum safe voltage and try to stay 0.2V below that. Use Cinebench to confirm the improvements. I managed to get it to 5 once, but I didn’t think the extra points from Cinebench were worth it yet. Have you adjusted the IIC LOAD settings? Around 6 or 7 out of 10?
I believe the Mobo manufacturers auto over clocks remain inferior compared to XMPII RAM Profiles when you're already utilizing them.
I noticed the Ram profiles section, though I'm not sure if I interacted with that unless the AI adjusted it. I haven't modified the IIC load, so I'll have to look into it. Usually, when I set the ratio manually, the right side shows the non-AVX and AVX maximum voltages, and the only time it exceeded 1.4v was during heavy overclocking with all cores at 51, which was very close to a thousandth.
Thank you for your assistance. I conducted some research and am satisfied with the results. I achieved 5.0Ghz across all cores, using a negative avx ratio of 3. On Prime95, I completed multiple tests per core without any issues. My maximum voltage readings were 1.39 at 5.0Ghz and 2.8 at 4.7Ghz. The peak temperatures reached during Prime95 testing were 81°C. Not too high. I might consider a better water cooler in the future, possibly for an upgrade.
This seems like a solid setup with all cores at 5.0, which is the expected maximum. I might not be able to help further right now, but I’ll probably consider overclocking more seriously if I get a next-gen RTX card. It doesn’t seem like there’s much benefit for me yet. I was hoping we could raise it enough to get expert advice.
This is a really interesting read
Overclocking - 9900K @ 5GHz 1.2V guide Gigabyte Z390 Master + 5.2GHz 1.28v guide pg2)
I feel when it comes to overclocking, people think they should increase as many settings as possible, which produces more heat from the motherboard and...
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Would also apply to your 9600K
Talking about RTX, I got the ASUS 2060 ROGStrix card and I'm really satisfied with it. I changed the LLC setting to 5 instead of 6 because I don't want my voltage to exceed what I set. I plan to tweak it further today and gradually remove the negative offset to check if all cores can run at 5Ghz without AVX workloads. My voltage was hitting 1.39 even though the clock was at 4.7, so I'll try that approach. I haven't played any games yet, but if they don't freeze, I think I'll be okay. I was thinking of swapping the 9600k for the 9700k, but I might wait since I figured it out.