8Pack Elite Z270 - Intel Core i7 7700k @ 5.00Ghz - Overclocked Kabylake Bundle. Not holding 5G overc

royhdgxx · 29 Sep 2018 at 16:45

Hi
The guys in your tech dept suggested I post here for @8 Pack to comment.
The overclocked bundle has been working fine for 17 months but then started to get very erratic with programs closing down. After several phone calls to the tech dep they suggested I return the bundle for a re clock. I received the bundle back but it's still the same.

I reinstalled win10 to a raid 0 but then a cannot install the graphics driver. It fails to install.
I cannot install any of the motherboard drivers, just lots of fatal errors pop up. I cannot install the CAM software for the kraken x62 water cooler.

Once I reset the motherboard to optimised defaults I can install all of the above and they run fine.

If i load the overclock profile that you set I cannot load the Cam software, GPU Tweek will not load. I cannot open the UI of the IRST. Lots of fatal errors pop up. This is exactly the problem I was having before the bundle was returned.

I have successfully got the overclock to work ok at 4.8Ghz. All the software runs ok and I have stress tested it on 3dMark Time spy. It appears the CPU will not go above 4.8Ghz now, if I try 4.9Ghz it fails.

Regards
Roy

royhdgxx · 29 Sep 2018 at 23:05

Thanks guys...it's an overclocked bundle with 24 month warranty!.. New overclocked bundles now have 36 month warranties!!

What is tagging someone and how do you do it?.

royhdgxx · 30 Sep 2018 at 03:54

Does anyone know if there are warranty T&Cs published anywhere?
When would a failure be considered a failure or degradation? 2 months, 6 months etc?.

royhdgxx · 30 Sep 2018 at 15:38

voltage at a stable 4.8Ghz is 1.355v..I tried 4.9Ghz with a voltage up to 1.375v but did like to push the voltage any more.
When it was running at 5Ghz I believe the voltage was 1.365.
I use this pc mainly for X-plane11 VR, strange but it all seems to be running faster, more fps at 4.8Ghz than when it was at 5Ghz.

royhdgxx · 31 Oct 2018 at 23:42

Good service from Overclockers. All working fine again back to 5.0Ghz overclock.

I use the Kraken X62 it keeps the CPU at around 64-66 C @100% CPU load