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!
System:CPU: Intel i7-8700K
GPU: EVGA Geforce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3
MOBO: GIGABYTE AORUS Z370 Gaming 7 (Rev 1.0) (ATX)
RAM: 32Gb (4 x 8gb G.Skill Trident Z 3000 Mhz)
PSU: EVGA 850 Watt G3 PSU
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO SSD (1Tb) + Samsung 860 EVO SSD (500gb)
Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro (360 mm)
Monitor: Acer Predator X34 + MSI Optix G24
Case: Phanteks P400 Tempered Glass Edition
Other: 3 extra Corsair LL120 fans (6 total LL120 fans)