Hi everyone,

I recently bought the Z370 FTW motherboard, and I'm trying to reach 5ghz overclock, but I'm having trouble. Soon as I set to 5ghz I experience a crash when running BF1, AIDA64, or Prime95. I've tried 1.37v adaptive and cpu-z shows it running to 1.4 sometimes and I still experience a crash on each program. Should I be increasing the voltage even more? Temperatures measure between 70-80 degrees during stress tests. The best result I got so far was disabling c-states and it got me past the BF1 loading screen but still crash during game.

Right now, I'm at 4.9ghz with vcore set to adaptive and 1.325v target. I put offset of +30. I disabled vdroop as well (c-states enabled) and RING ratio at 42. I don’t mind staying at 4.9, but according to HWMonitor, it hits a max of 1.4 sometimes while gaming for some reason. Is the voltage too high? I’m new overclocking so I’m probably doing something wrong, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Sajin
Try using a fixed voltage of 1.4v. Set ring to default. See where that gets you. 1.4v would be the max I would use on that chip.

Sajin
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Hi Sajin,
 
thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, and no luck. Then with 1.4v I enabled c-states but disabled c-1 and it was a little better but still crashing. I then tried ring at 40 with disabled c-1 and 1.4v and BF lasted a little longer before crashing. Now though it crashes just to desktop and I don't have to restart the system, don't know if that means anything? 

GGTV-Jon
Time to step up to an CLC 240 or 280?
That case should have the room for it

Are you suggesting it could it be a heating problem? Thing is, I get roughly low to mid 70's on my stable 4.9 OC and no issues, it is a little warm I agree, I am looking to step up the CPU cooler but not so soon if I can help it.
 
Thanks guys!

Such temp shouldn't be an issue. Maybe try to add another 0.01-0.02 V? :)