Alright, so I tried overclocking my first processor last night and ALMOST had success, ( I think ) but I want to get your guys' help and opinion. I'm using an ASRock X99 Extreme6/AC. Its a
beautiful motherboard. ASRock actually went and created profiles on the motherboard for over clocking each of the different x99 chips. The only thing you have to do is select which of the profiles you want: 4, 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6. So I wanted to start mild. I'm not very ambitious, but I thought 4.2 would be a moderate overclock for this processor (I'm using a Swiftech H140-x liquid cpu cooler). So I set the processor to 4.2, saved the bios, restarted the computer, and VIOLA! It booted right up. I ran Aida64 for about 1 hour with no hicups, freezing, or crashing. I then made it through an entire Unigine Heaven Benchmark with no hickups, stuttering, or crashing. And then upon exiting unigine heaven, BLUESCREEN. I let it restart, but it then froze on the desktop, and wouldn't unlock. So I manually restarted the computer, went into the bios and reset the speed to stock 3.5 So everything is at stock again, with default speeds, it booted up and worked fine.
My question to you all now is, did it blue screen because there wasn't enough voltage? I didn't change the voltage when I went to 4.2. It was just at 1.22 volts the entire time. MAX temperatures under 100% load never got above 63c. So do you think I can stabilize 4.2? If so what should I do next?
post edited by VVhiplash - Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:53 PM