So many restarts happening fast on the 5 gigahertz band
So many restarts happening fast on the 5 gigahertz band
I never hit a steady 5Ghz before. I got this board yesterday and spent an hour trying to get it stable at 1.4V in the F11 bios. At lower speeds (like 1.36), it froze up when I started booting. At speeds above 1.37, it blacked out the screen right after I hit stress test. With auto voltages, it settled at 5Ghz but I burned my hands to 100 degrees because of the heat. Now an update says "Fixes CPU Vcore and power behavior," but nothing is better than this. I tried going up to 1.37V on stock clocks and it works fine. Then I set the clock to 5Ghz, instead of blacking out, I keep rebooting at the login screen. I am lost here. When I was using auto voltages and hitting a stable 5Ghz, I didn't know that VOUT (power) counts more than VID (voltage), so I don't have any good idea what voltage levels I was actually getting when it worked perfectly.
Hey - not every 9700K processor can run at 5GHz if all cores are used at the same time. It just sounds like your chip isn't ready for that yet. Normally when you're trying to overclock, you start slow and move up slowly. The official max boost frequency for all cores on a 9700K is 4.6 GHz, so I'd suggest starting there (setting all cores to 4.6 GHz still counts as an overclock). Usually, the turbo speed only happens for short periods when things are cool. Once you find the lowest voltage that keeps the chip stable at 4.6 GHz, you can try increasing it a bit from there. It sounds like you're already pretty close to getting it working stably at 5GHz, so hopefully your chip will handle 4.8 or 4.9 GHz fine. The difference in performance between running all cores at 4.8 GHz and 5 GHz is really small.
Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I pushed mine up to 4.7 GHz with a voltage of 1.37v. I don't know what vdroop is, so maybe that's the problem? The Vdroop graph shows the steepest load line in the BIOS. Also, while doing stress tests at 4.7GHz, my voltages dropped way too low. I usually saw them drop into the 1.1v range sometimes.