Hey guys and gals,
I'm having a little bit of a problem at hand here. I upgraded to an i7-4790K this summer on an ASRock Z97 Extreme9. PSU is a Corsair AX1500i and I used an EVGA GTX 670 FTW2. I have delidded the CPU and was trying to achieve a good overclock and it seemed to have been finally stable at around 4,8 GHz Core and 4,0 GHz Uncore at around 1,35 V watercooled. Now I went on holiday for two weeks and made sure my computer was off. After I came back I noticed my Computer was running but I didn't think much of it.
I then noticed that I would randomly crash in games so I checked with Prime95 28.5 and soon ran into troubles (BSOD or freezes...sometimes workers dropped). So I decided to run everything on stock again. First I simply "soft reseted" the Bios in the UEFI screen. That didn't help so I used the jumpers to reset the Bios. This didn't help either...still problems. So I thought maybe the RAM went bad. I used the HCI Memtest CD to check the RAM overnight. Result was 1046% coverage without errors. I now removed the BIOS battery and essentially hard reseted the BIOS and I also downloaded the newest BIOS. I will check if this solved my problems, but I wonder if I somehow managed to make my CPU permanently unstable with my overclocks?
Any thoughts?
I'm having a little bit of a problem at hand here. I upgraded to an i7-4790K this summer on an ASRock Z97 Extreme9. PSU is a Corsair AX1500i and I used an EVGA GTX 670 FTW2. I have delidded the CPU and was trying to achieve a good overclock and it seemed to have been finally stable at around 4,8 GHz Core and 4,0 GHz Uncore at around 1,35 V watercooled. Now I went on holiday for two weeks and made sure my computer was off. After I came back I noticed my Computer was running but I didn't think much of it.
I then noticed that I would randomly crash in games so I checked with Prime95 28.5 and soon ran into troubles (BSOD or freezes...sometimes workers dropped). So I decided to run everything on stock again. First I simply "soft reseted" the Bios in the UEFI screen. That didn't help so I used the jumpers to reset the Bios. This didn't help either...still problems. So I thought maybe the RAM went bad. I used the HCI Memtest CD to check the RAM overnight. Result was 1046% coverage without errors. I now removed the BIOS battery and essentially hard reseted the BIOS and I also downloaded the newest BIOS. I will check if this solved my problems, but I wonder if I somehow managed to make my CPU permanently unstable with my overclocks?
Any thoughts?