OC Help

any body else? mobo or CPU?

MY CPU GOT APPROVED! WHOOO!

So now hopefully this is a CPU issue and not a mono issue. If it is mono, I'm raising hell with Asus and demanding a different board!

I hope that fixes it for you!

To be safe you should do all three Mobo CPU Psu

I know. Simple. Long story short, this chip was running 100% stable at 4.6. I got a new mobo of the same model and ran an OC of 5.2 for the OC competition. I tried for 5.3 and cpuldent get past boot in windows. I kept upping the voltage and was pushing 1.6-67v into it. After that I put it back to 4.6 and fixed all my problems than ran prime to make sure its 100% stable and then that's when it started to crash. And now it won't be stable at anything other than stock.

I know certain boards and chips oc to certain levels.


4.6 doesn't need exotic cooling. I'm hitting 62c under prime. Max I've ever seen it was 50c playing games etc. I have an H80i

im thinking that this all has to be with the CPU. like the mobo is fine.....


I just prey that I don't have to ship my mobo back again.

I do have a question for you why are you running High hard test on IBT ???

Is there a reason for it now that I re read this a little more don't you know IBT is harder on a AMD CPU

it would give mixed results I could do 10 passes on a fixed speed fine and when I do it again it would fail on the same settings that passed

I don't know but seems like you were pushing kind of hard when there is no reason too the standard test does a good amount on it's own

Prime well pretty much same thing it really rings a AMD CPU thus I am thinking you are getting these PC FITS because you need to lighten up on the test load work your way up just don't throw it to the dogs if it passes standard then go to the next and the next that is the point of the test

by the time you get done doing one test you will not even need to test any more

Solarstarshines said:

I do have a question for you why are you running High hard test on IBT ???

Is there a reason for it now that I re read this a little more don't you know IBT is harder on a AMD CPU

it would give mixed results I could do 10 passes on a fixed speed fine and when I do it again it would fail on the same settings that passed

I don't know but seems like you were pushing kind of hard when there is no reason too the standard test does a good amount on it's own

Prime well pretty much same thing it really rings a AMD CPU thus I am thinking you are getting these PC FITS because you need to lighten up on the test load work your way up just don't throw it to the dogs if it passes standard then go to the next and the next that is the point of the test

by the time you get done doing one test you will not even need to test any more

I was using IBT because prime was causing straight shut downs as Intel was not. Not even in its maximum settings.

madcratebuilder said:

After reading this thread I think the OP needs to do some basic study on OC'ing. The OP does not grasp the fact the cpu's, mobo's and such are designed to meet a minimum spec and these specs are what the manufacturer advertises. There is no guarantee that any cpu or mobo you buy well OC higher than published specs. Every chip is different, some well take a lot more OC than others. Some guys well buy several cpu's and test them, keeping the one the OC's the best.

The speeds the OP is trying to run need exotic cooling that is not being used.

Agreed, the board costs $95 so how good can it be.