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Overclock won't stick

Overclock won't stick

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Chester09
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10-03-2023, 05:56 AM
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For a long time I've kept my motherboard and 6850 K at 4.2 gigahertz with 3200 megahertz RAM, and Windows always displayed the overclock. Recently, during an update, several unexpected events occurred, creating what I described as a perfect storm. Now, whenever I attempt to overclock, the system lets me do it in BIOS, but it doesn't retain the 4.2 gigahertz setting. I'm certain the chip handles it properly because I've been doing this for a long time.

Cpuz now displays a 38x multiplier, and the chip operates at 3.8 gigahertz independently. The Task Manager shows 3.6 gigahertz.

I have no idea what to do. I reset the BIOS to its factory settings, changed the CMOS battery, used a screwdriver to touch the pins and restored it to stock, but everything works smoothly. However, when I return to BIOS and go to XMP, setting a 42x multiplier and pressing F10 to boot, it fails to maintain the target. If I log back in, the target goal appears as 4.2, but in EZ mode it only shows 3.4 with a base speed of 2133 for RAM.

I can't figure out why this happened. The board has been running at 4.2 gigahertz reliably for over a year now.

I recently reloaded Windows and tried various solutions, anyone have any ideas about what might have caused this?
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Chester09
10-03-2023, 05:56 AM #1

For a long time I've kept my motherboard and 6850 K at 4.2 gigahertz with 3200 megahertz RAM, and Windows always displayed the overclock. Recently, during an update, several unexpected events occurred, creating what I described as a perfect storm. Now, whenever I attempt to overclock, the system lets me do it in BIOS, but it doesn't retain the 4.2 gigahertz setting. I'm certain the chip handles it properly because I've been doing this for a long time.

Cpuz now displays a 38x multiplier, and the chip operates at 3.8 gigahertz independently. The Task Manager shows 3.6 gigahertz.

I have no idea what to do. I reset the BIOS to its factory settings, changed the CMOS battery, used a screwdriver to touch the pins and restored it to stock, but everything works smoothly. However, when I return to BIOS and go to XMP, setting a 42x multiplier and pressing F10 to boot, it fails to maintain the target. If I log back in, the target goal appears as 4.2, but in EZ mode it only shows 3.4 with a base speed of 2133 for RAM.

I can't figure out why this happened. The board has been running at 4.2 gigahertz reliably for over a year now.

I recently reloaded Windows and tried various solutions, anyone have any ideas about what might have caused this?

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