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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***

@Stullid

"and yeah, different manufacturers calling the same thing a different name doesn't help, every one I talk to who use the same board as me use acronyms that are not in the BIOS, really annoying."

I find this also after being away for nearly 5 years it feels like I'm on Mars sometimes.

What board do you have?
 
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stulid said:
If you need 1.4V to get 4.7Ghz then its not worth it.
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maybe i can lower it though..... because it could have been too high a voltage on the GPU that crashed it, but i'm not sure if the GPU is crashing or the CPU............. my guess is that it's the CPU that's crashing
 
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Try a lower cpu vcore with a higher vrin voltage. Also, what sort of error/crash are you getting, if any blue screen what is the code. Leave the gpu at its default settings when clocking the cpu.
 
Ive seen 1.3V mentioned a lot.

But Mal X is needing 1.4V to do 4.7GHz which is ott to me, I would use 1.4V for a 5GHz run.

I know "silicon lottery" and all that, but he should settle for a lower overclock that doesn't need 1.4V or try setting it up himself and not use smart tweak.


OH!!

@Mal X, are you suing the latest BIOS for the board? the last two seriously reduced the Vcore needed for a given oc.
 
stulid said:
Ive seen 1.3V mentioned a lot.

But Mal X is needing 1.4V to do 4.7GHz which is ott to me, I would use 1.4V for a 5GHz run.

I know "silicon lottery" and all that, but he should settle for a lower overclock that doesn't need 1.4V or try setting it up himself and not use smart tweak.


OH!!

@MAL X, are you suing the latest BIOS for the board? the last two seriously reduced the Vcore needed for a given oc.
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HI

yes it's the latest, i dont mind leaving the rig at 4.5 ........1.4, but i'd rather have 1.35

no it's never survived at 4.7, it's always crashed in either Heaven or in Prime, it's only remained stable at 4.5

it's not hot at 4.5, it's 26 to 29 degrees idle and about 85 degrees in Prime at full torture test

but it hates something at 4.7 because i remember testing the core temp last week and it was still quite low at 4.7, i dont think it's overheating not enough time to do so............fans weren't spinning up.

there's no blue screen when it crashes in Heaven, the screen goes black..then freezes.....then starts up again....black...freezes.....then makes one hell of a buzzing noise followed by me swearing !

quite often i loose the GPU and BIOS, i have to remove the card and start it via onboard graphics, then shut it down and refit the card.

so overclocking it is quite hard work
 
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So just to confirm so I am crystal clear.

You are using the drop down menu to pick a overclock in the BIOS and not entering the Core ratio/voltage etc yourself?

Also in the frequency section there are 4-5 options at the bottom called like,

C1E halt.
C6/C7
etc
ect

You have these set to DISABLED?

I will post a pic if you need it.
 
stulid said:
So just to confirm so I am crystal clear.

You are using the drop down menu to pick a overclock in the BIOS and not entering the Core ratio/voltage etc yourself?

Also in the frequency section there are 4-5 options at the bottom called like,

C1E halt.
C6/C7
etc
ect

You have these set to DISABLED?

I will post a pic if you need it.
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i'm using Smart Tweak and picking the overclock at 4.5 or 4.7 and then adjusting the two settings.........these are on ``cpu core voltage`` VCORE and vccin

no i've set nothing to Disabled...... i only look at the cpu core voltage section, as you've shown it above, i then save and exit

please highlight the areas that you adjust, mine is the frequency section and then the cpu core voltage section.........but definitely not anything in the ``advanced power setting `` section that you have in the post above

i think i'm missing something simple, because that cpu runs cool at 4.7

thanks Stulid
 
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Ok, hold on then and I will show you every page of the BIOS I have adjusted to get 4.7GHz, copy it and see what happens.


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Remember to reset everything to default before hand just incase you adjusted something else.
 
thanks that's brilliant...... but i'll need to print that off around at our other house, so i wont be overclocking till tomorrow afternoon...........i'll deffo post back in.

many thanks
 
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ViRuS2k said:
Adaptive voltage on vcore ;)
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2400 Memory
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auto on vring no voltage needed.
just use the settings in my GTL 2.0 image you might need slightly higher vcore try 1.340v in your bios.
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Thanks using the voltages you listed Ive been able to get 4.8ghz core and 4.8ghz uncore but with only 1.257vcore :)

One question though, do you know what voltage is being set when the vring is set to auto? Reason I ask is because when I set the vring to 1.2v I can't get the system stable but I can when set to auto
 
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