Intel i7 4790k

[Hyp3rion]

Hello guys,

Yeah I know, it's an oldie but a goodie and suits my gaming needs right now. However, I have recently been experiencing crashes during gaming and I am pretty sure it may be heat related.
While having a look around at my BIOS setting in my Gigabyte z87x-uhd4 i noticed that the CPU vcore is set to 1.379. This is not a value I have set but one which is at "auto" but does this seen too high?
I do not overclock and the majority of my BIOS settings are set to auto with the exception of disabling iGFX and sound etc.

Any help and advise appreciated. I'm sure I could optimise a lot of settings in the BIOS.

Rest of the system is:
Gigabyte 1070
Team Vulcan 32GIG 1600

I mostly play The Division Last Stand at the moment and get 100fps+ at 1440p

 

[imginy]

1.379 sounds really high if your not overclocking.

I don't know about haswell but with my ivybridge I ran 4.8ghz with them volts and needed a big phanteks to keep it cool.

 

[geordiejc]

That voltage is too high for your cpu. Adjust it manually

 

[pastymuncher]

That is way too much for a stock cpu. Mine is nowhere near that high and It's overclocked. If I remember right the first Devils Canyon compatible motherboard bios were over volting the cpu on certain boards and it seems like that is the case with yours. This was fixed in the next bios update. Is your board running the latest bios (F9 is the latest official bios and there is also a F10b beta bios)? CPU-z will tell you the bios version under the motherboard tab. You can download the latest bios from here. Download it and extract it if it's a zip file and put it on a usb stick. Reboot the pc and enter the bios. In the tools sectio you will find the flashing tool Q-Flash. Select it and point it at the usb stick that has the latest bios on it and follow the instructions. Do not interrupt the flashing process in any way. When it's complete it should say flash successful and reboot.

It is a good idea to go into the bios before flashing and write down any settings that you have made as the flash will reset them. Do not use any Windows based software to flash the bios.