3570k vcore vs GHz

[humbug]

I can run my 4690K stable @ 4.7Ghz with 1.295v, i haven't tried higher than that.

I ran it at that speed for ages but found that at 4.5Ghz i only need 1.23v and it runs as cool as a cucumber, 50's gaming, 60's stressed with very little rad fan noise, so that where i run it now, better to have a very quiet PC than the extra not noticeable 200Mhz.

NZXT Kraken X31

 

[Pulseammo]

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.

The crashing can still be due to partial instability. Have you checked to see if you are still getting WHEA warnings?

On windows open the event viewer (start -> "eventvwr" if on windows 10). Expand "Windows Logs" and click on "System", now right click on "System" again and go to "Filter current log" and under the "Event Sources" dropdown check "WHEA-Logger" and click ok.

I believe a WHEA error will cause a bluescreen, but that filter should show up WHEA warnings which are corrected errors, I find that if I'm still getting a lot of those I'll not necessarily get a bluescreen, but I will get occasional application crashes.

The way you resolve this is more volts until you eliminate these warnings.

 

[Drollic]

I'd lower to 4.4 or 4.3 for much lower voltage and temps.

 

[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.