i5 4690K - ASUS EZ Tune - Dies after 5 Minutes Of Stress Testing

Brocky36

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Hi all. I'm an OC novice, but am willing to learn, so please be gentle. :)

Built my first rig a few days ago and ran the ASUS EZ Tune utility from BIOS. I ran this, as I really don't know enough to do it myself yet and I assumed that it would be a relatively 'mild' OC, compared to a 'proper' OC.

So, I ran OCCT and it died after 5 minutes. I was taking screenies along the way. Here's the last one I got but the bottom is missing, for some reason...

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From my limited knowledge, temps are fine, but that's pretty much all I can deduce at this stage.

Would anyone be so kind as to take a look and advise/educate me on the situation? I can post more screenies and run more tests, as needed.

i5 4690K Devil's Canyon
ASUS Z97-K
Corsair H110i GT
ASUS Strix GTX 970
SuperFlower Golden Green 550w PSU
Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3 2400MHz 8GB (2x4GB)
NZXT H440 2015 Case
 
Well you are running at 4.6ghz, temps are fine! Everything looks okay to me. 4.6 is decent overclock. You could probably go higher, the program below will tell you the vcore used to get there.

That's about all that page will tell you. Open up Hwinfo monitor and that will tell you a lot more.

I'm assuming the auto oc thing set your RAM to XMP @2400mhz already.
 
savagesam117 said:
Well you are running at 4.6ghz, temps are fine! Everything looks okay to me. 4.6 is decent overclock. You could probably go higher, the program below will tell you the vcore used to get there.

That's about all that page will tell you. Open up Hwinfo monitor and that will tell you a lot more.

I'm assuming the auto oc thing set your RAM to XMP @2400mhz already.
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Thanks, Savagesam.

Yeah, the RAM is set to XMP.

Here's a HWMon screenie after 1 minute of stress.

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It usually dies around the 5 minute mark. I get a blue screen with a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR message.

Any idea what's causing it to give out?
 
Holy 1.824v batman !!

You are running WAY too much voltage, gonna kill the chip quickly.

Do not use any Auto overclocking software, reset your settings to stock do it manually its very easy.
 
Yeah, as Dempsey said do it yourself.

DC is easy! Set it to XMP, all cores to 46 and then the vcore to 1.25 and see how that goes. If it crashes, add more vcore. 1.26 etc.
 
Ok, back to optimized defaults.

Here's where we're at now.

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Hopefully I've not done any damage. Weird that the BIOS auto tune would do that. :confused:
 
Dempsey22 said:
Holy 1.824v batman !!

You are running WAY too much voltage, gonna kill the chip quickly.

Do not use any Auto overclocking software, reset your settings to stock do it manually its very easy.
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Brocky36 said:
Err ok....BRB! :eek:
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HW monitor is just mislabeling those voltages,what its got as Vcore(1.824v) will actually be the input voltage, the vid reading will be the actual vcore.
 
Also, between having to ignore the ridiculously high mainboard temp and now this being misread, I'm not feeling massively confident in this monitoring software.
 
Brocky36 said:
Ok, so the auto tune wasn't going to kill my CPU then...?

If that's the case, any idea what was causing the crash after a few minutes of stressing. Same thing every time - blue screen WHEA_UNCONTROLLABLE_ERROR
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thats just instability,it requires more vcore or possibily more Input voltage to be stable at those clock speeds.

Software auto Overclocking software is not particularly reliable or optimal to use tbh.

Better off manually setting your OC settings. :)
 
Brocky36 said:
Also, between having to ignore the ridiculously high mainboard temp and now this being misread, I'm not feeling massively confident in this monitoring software.
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lol indeed,i had an am3 board that Hw monitor would often report the cpu socket and ambient temps at 225c :p
 
Posting from my tablet.

Ok, so I set XMP, set CPU ratio to per core, set each of the 4 core ratio limit to 46 and then set CPU core voltage to manual.

It wouldn't boot until I hit 1.26v but died as soon as I started stressing. 1.27 was the same. 1.28 gave me around 5 minutes before it died. Temps were maxing at 57 or so.

Just about to try at 1.29. Am I doing it right? Do I just keep notching up, or is there a point where I stop and decrease the ratio limit?
 
Ok, just got 20 minutes and then manually stopped.

How's this looking?

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Have I done things correctly? Am I now officially an OCer? :D
 
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