Asus Prime 790-P/14700k

[nickwalker85]

Hi all,

I have always built my own pcs and had fun overclocking since the early 90's. Never had a problem, until now...

I was having constant thermal throttling since upgrading to the 14700k with ASUS prime 790-p (DDR5) motherboard.

It shouldn't be a cooler issue, running an H100i and I have cleaned and re applied the thermal compound a couple of times to no avail.

I would normally change settings in bios but the options are so limited... (Have I missed something or is it just a poor choice of MB?)

After a fair bit of reading I have now used XTU to undervolt and have it performing well without throttling. However, it is a major pain in the arse having to open XTU and load the profile each reboot.
The watchdog is not available and no longer available to download via intels website so cannot just tick the option in settings.

I'm amazed the CPU can't just be used with default sttings.

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[nickwalker85]

Thank you all for the helpful replies.
I’ll see how I get on.

 

[nickwalker85]

Set to 5600 up to two cores, 5500 3 or more cores. Voltage offset -0.05, max wattage set at 253.

Cinebench score 34463

 

[nickwalker85]

Is your cooling OK now.? Probably helped with the slight offset, maybe more so by preventing the BIOS from setting too high a maximum for the power draw.

Yeah, seems ok. I’ve actually cranked up the multicore to 5700, in game I’m only running at ~68’c with fans on fairly low speed. Hit 95’c when bench marking.

 

[nickwalker85]

BTW did you do your settings through the BIOS or use XTU...?

I used bios. As I mentioned above, I cannot select the option to keep setting on reboot in xtu. It mentions to downlad the watchdog software but this has been discontinued on Intel’s website.