Is it possible my 3770K wont work with 1.30V upwards?

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Hi 8 pack...
First of all, thanks for your guides and help on here. using knowledge imparted from you I managed to get my sammy to 2520mhz SuperPi32m stable last night and post a few memspeed PB's to the bot, so well pleased. That has got me to thinking you might be able to help with an issue I have, when you have time.

I Decided to fire some extra effort at getting this 3770K above multiplier 46 stable. For info: She will do 4737mhz at 46x103 no problem with voltages around 1.28v and bench all night at 4780mhz with 45x105, indeed this week she has been doing with great results. Super Pi 32m / 3Dmark / catzilla / You name it... no problem.

However, no matter what I do, I cant get her Super Pi 8m stable on multipliers 47x or higher no matter what i do.

(All initial multiplier testing is done on 100mhz bus and 1600 ram)

Also, perhaps worth mentioning is something I personally find a little odd about OC'ing the 3770K, (or this one at least) is that if I get her stable at any speed, I can have too much voltage and make her unstable again.

Example:
4737mhz (46x 103 @ 1.280v) she will pass SuperPi 32m no problem, but she wont at 1.30v.

In the past, I have never had any problem with too much voltage other than heat. Is this normal For IVY, or is mine odd?

I wonder if my leakage is too high and she simply wont run voltages higher than 1.295v at all and I have tried so far right up to 1.55v in 0.01v steps.

For reference...

  • Asus maximus Extreme IV Z68
  • i7 3770K delidded (Never sees above 60C no matter what volts I put in it... rarely exceeds 45c).
  • Larger than most water loop with external 1260 rad & internal 360.
Tried all manner of BIOS tweaks, all the usual:

  • LLC optimised / High / Extreme
  • Phase 350 / 400 / 450 / 500
  • CPU PLL enabled
  • Max OC settings for CPU overvoltage etc
  • C states all off
  • Spread spectrum always off
  • Tried HT off
  • Looser ram timings
Nothing seems to make any difference.
Always the same result - boots to windows fine and can do any light load things I want, but put it under load with higher than 1.295v = dead stop.

Black screen error. Reeboots to report a 124. Every single time.

The point of this topic I guess, is to get some feedback, ideas and discussion going and then if you guys tell me that its common to need in excess of 1.55v for a 47x multiplier then I will try it as that is the highest I have tried. But it seems high considering what I have read on the forums about others experiences.

Another thought I have yet to investigate - can peripherals cause it?

Thanks in advance for any time you can spare, but if thats none, no hard feelings, thanks for reading anyway. :)
 
hello stu,

i have the exact same problem your describing, but i can only use 1.232 vcore anything above that i get bsod 124 when running prime/ibt etc. luckily my cpu is stable at 4.6... i've tried 2 motherboards, 2 sets of ram, 2 power supply's every motherboard setting under the sun.

example my system is stable at 1.232v 46x100 if i change vcore to 1.28 and run prime i get bsod 124, change vcore back and i can pass prime for 13hours +

if i drop 40x100 with 1.28v i get bsod, if i drop 30x100 at 1.28 i get bsod, if i change vcore to 1.4 i get bsod at windows logo screen!

i have since giving up and thought i was the only 1 with this problem, never happened before on any cpu i have owned so i was kind of ruling out my cpu to begin with.
 
Its funny you should say this Stu but I have a recent retail sample that does amazing figures i.e 6ghz plus on cold at only 1.7v which trust me is incredible. Give it more than 1.75 and its game over whatever you do!!! I mean anything. Normally such amazing chips just scale with volts and cold but not this one and not at all. So yes I have seen this and it is infuriating.

I have yet to fully investigate if anything makes a difference so far I have only really managed to try PLL tuning and BLK upto 112 did not make any difference. I tried both PSC Ram at around 2400 7-11-7-25 1T and hynix at 2600-2700 10-12-11-25 1T neither helped. VCCSA and VCCIO I guess is the next point of call.

Others on the bot have seen this too with certain weeks of the chip. The chip above is a 4.6 prime stable chip at stock volts.
 
Bugger. Guess I just lost the lottery then.

As it happens, my work machine has a 3770K in it too... Think I will borrow it one night and just check the rest of my benching system is capable of doing the job, and if its better than mine its getting de-Lidded and left in my home machine... ROFLOL

Im sure its the CPU - I have had other processors in there doing 5.4ghz, like my last 2600K... but you never know, there may be an issue and the only way to find out is to slot another one in there I guess.
 
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