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

Brocky36 · 1 Jan 2016 at 22:52

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...

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

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 00:16

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.

Thanks, Savagesam.

Yeah, the RAM is set to XMP.

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

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?

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 00:24

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.

Err ok....BRB! :eek:

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 00:34

Ok, back to optimized defaults.

Here's where we're at now.

Hopefully I've not done any damage. Weird that the BIOS auto tune would do that. :confused:

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 00:41

MrMD said:
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.

Back at stock Vcore is still reading at 1.776v. VID is at 1.140v.

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 00:59

P4Clock said:
LOL the VID is the cpu voltage. 1.275 in the first post is fine

MrMD said:
It varies between motherboard vendors

This is perfectly fine^

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

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 01:01

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 · 2 Jan 2016 at 02:02

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?

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 02:05

Testing at 1.29. @4598Mhz. Temps at 65-66 max.

Brocky36 · 2 Jan 2016 at 02:28

Ok, just got 20 minutes and then manually stopped.

How's this looking?

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