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AvengerUK · ‎01-24-2017

Hello everyone!

Hoping you can help me with my OC.

Firstly - worth mentioning I have a binned 5Ghz 7700k - which I have de-lidded for temps, and using the latest bios.

I initially thought my OC was stable @ offset voltage resulting in ~ 1.360 (I can't get 1.350, either 1.344 or 1.360 - I know from the bin that 1.350 is the spot).

However, crashed a few times while gaming 😞

I am now back to Manual set to 1.350 - LLC 6. Full settings in screenshots below. Prime95 has been stable @ large 1344 FFT for an hour (more to do) - but realbench (specifically, lux mark) crashes. I think that may be an issue with my drivers as its the display that seems to crash (screen goes off for a moment), so I'm focusing on Prime95. (GPU is stable btw elsewhere).

Temps under stress are max 67-70

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/Jgw5d

Manual Vcore: 1.35 (Under stress in CPUZ = 1.36)
CPU LLC = 6
CPU Current = 140%
AVX offset: 3
All cores to: 50x
AI Overlcock tuner = Manual
BLK 100
Multicore enhancement = 0
CPU Core/Cache current limit = 255.50
DRAM Volt = 1.35
DRAM speed: 3000
All other CPU volts auto (e.g. SA)

Power limits:

Long: 4095
Package: 127
Short: 3095

DRAM timings are set to manufacturers rec.

Now, if this remains stable - I'm guessing it's good. Note - VCCIO and SA Auto volt quite high though!

But, obviously I want to allow the CPU to downclock / downvolt when idle - however offset doesn't want to be stable at these or higher volts!

Any pointers? (I'm going to guess your going to say "Use Adaptive" - however I've never managed to get that to work! - usually overvolts massively).

Thanks!

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/Jgw5d

Chino · ‎01-24-2017

Continue tweaking your Vcore.

AvengerUK · ‎01-24-2017

Still tweaking 😉

Now using adaptive @ 1.350 tubo + offset .001 giving 1.360 or in prime95 1.376. (Stability test in progress, with a minus offset of .001 it BSOD)

The problem is, even with LLC lowered, any further voltage gives huge over-volts, e.g. next step would be 1.396 - LLC is currently Level 5.

HWInfo in-case its helpful:
http://imgur.com/a/GwF5i

Thanks,

Chino · ‎01-24-2017

What I usually do is find my most stable voltage for the overclock that I want. I'd add a few volts just to give it overheard. Then change to Adaptive and call it day.

AvengerUK · ‎01-25-2017

Chino wrote:
What I usually do is find my most stable voltage for the overclock that I want. I'd add a few volts just to give it overheard. Then change to Adaptive and call it day.

I believe I've found a stable Adaptive of 1.350, offset + .002 - CPU-Z reports this as 1.376 under Prime95 load, other applications e.g. not stress tests report as 1.360.

Will see how it goes as currently leaving Prime95 to run.

Chino · ‎01-25-2017

Take stress tests with a grain of salt. Daily usage is the best test for stability.

AvengerUK · ‎01-26-2017

Thanks 🙂

@ 1.320 using LLC of level 4 prime was stable all night.

I'm going to be using it "normally" now to see if it remains stable , fingers crossed.

AvengerUK · ‎01-27-2017

Well, we've had one crash through a night of gaming.

Could of been worse I guess. BSOD "Page fault in non-paged area"

Not 100% sure what I should do with this, currently I've just put the adpative voltage up .005

(So that's now Vcore 1.325 + offset .001. LLC 4 XMP for memory)

Chino · ‎01-27-2017

Did you test for memory stability before overclocking your CPU?

7700k + Strix z270h 5Ghz overclock - Settings for stability problems