3570k vcore vs GHz

[opethdisciple]

Wondering what I should do now.

I've been woking on getting my 3570k stable at 4.5Ghz... Long story short it has done stretches of around 30hrs of gaming then I will get a blue screen.

I am currently sitting on 1.33v in bios with LLC on extreme. Under Prime 95 it hits 90c. Gaming however it doesnt go beyound 70c.

When Prime 95 is running and load is at 100% vcore hits 1.356v high but I'm not too concerned as gaming temps dont go above 70c.

I've kind of been stubborn to lower the frequency to 4.4GHz as for the most part it is fine... and my plan was to keep bumping the vcore 0.1 until it stabilises.

What do you reckon I should do. Keep increasing if I encounter more instability or just lower it to 4.4GHz as it will be easier to get stable?

 

[opethdisciple]

I have NH-D14 cooler.

I think it's time for peace of mind just to go back to 4.4GHz.

 

[opethdisciple]

Is there a reason for the LLC levels? That'll be pushing way more than 1.33V through sometimes, especially when dropping back to idle from load. If you back that off you'd be able to increase the main voltage while still actually decreasing the max volts your chip is facing.

Even MSI when advertising their LLC tech say you probably don't want to max it.

Just to add some context to the conversation, I had previously tried overclocking the CPU where I left the LLC on default and just used the vcore. It was fine at 4.5Ghz for about 8 months untill I upgraded to Win 10 and it all went pear.

I then ran it for about a year at stock but then a few months ago I decided to try again as my 3570k at stock was holding back the 970.

This time round I thought I'd try again using LLC.

I've monitored it using cpu z and hwinfo so I know even tho extreme LLC is on it isn't doing anything ridiculous to the cpu.

I think I'll just have to back it down to 4.4GHz as 4.5Ghz seems to be requiring more and more voltage.

 

[opethdisciple]

Yea, I've lowered it to 4.4GHz and done a few Prime 95 runs and a 3 hour gaming session at 1.26v and it seems good.

May get a crash in the future who knows but hopefully 1.27v-1.28v will eradicate this completely.

 

[opethdisciple]

Q. So the PC is stable, it's not blue screening at this overclock. However can instability manifest it's self in other ways.

For example Dragon Age inquisition seems to be crashing to desktop a lot. The PC it's self is stable no blue screen just the game quits occasionally.

I managed a three hour play session in Fri fine but today it's crashing to desktop a lot.

What about stutter? I swear the game is stuttering a bit.

 

[opethdisciple]

The crashing I think was the game. I've now moved on to playing Doom and it's stable.

There was no blue screens just a crash to desktop. Windows was stable.