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What a great chip!

Kol12 said:

What a great chip!

Thanks Kol
I couldn't get to finish at 5.5GHz though, even pushing my voltage up to 1.48V in BIOS(1.47 in Windows with LLC at level 6 or 7).
It would lock the system up, and I do not want to push the voltage further just for a benchmark and degrade the CPU(they are going to be hard to come by Intel Cutting Retail Processor Supply for Holiday 2018 | TechPowerUp ).

Kol12 said:

What a great chip!

Thanks Kol
I couldn't get to finish at 5.5GHz though, even pushing my voltage up to 1.48V in BIOS(1.47 in Windows with LLC at level 6 or 7).
It would lock the system up, and I do not want to push the voltage further just for a benchmark and degrade the CPU(they are going to be hard to come by Intel Cutting Retail Processor Supply for Holiday 2018 | TechPowerUp ).

But 5.4GHz on 8 cores is respectable, specially when using a Z370 board I guess.

Board updated, great run Cliff

Dude said:

Board updated, great run Cliff

Thanks Doug, it's a great chip.

I can boot into Windows at 5.5GHz, and run apps and programs, but any benchmark freezes the system.

Something new:



Intel Core i7 8700K @ 5100 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

Board updated

Kol12 said:

Something new:



Intel Core i7 8700K @ 5100 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

At 1.28V and 51°C?
Very nice, and you still have a lot of headroom

Cliff S said:

At 1.28V and 51°C?
Very nice, and you still have a lot of headroom

Thanks Cliff but unfortunately things did not go as well when I tried 5.2 and 5.3Ghz today. 5.3Ghz @1.350-1.370v crashed before Windows could load and 5.2Ghz (same voltage) crashed as I stressed it. According to online reports for my CPU's lot code my CPU should get 5.3Ghz easily so I don't get it... 5Ghz stable at 1.290-1.310v but not stable at 5.2Ghz 1.370v?

On a side note - when Windows crashes before even being able to load you occasionally get a screen asking to repair the OS or just restart. Should you run the repair? What can be damaged during boot due to an unstable overclock? Or just restart?

Kol12 said:

Thanks Cliff but unfortunately things did not go as well when I tried 5.2 and 5.3Ghz today. 5.3Ghz @1.350-1.370v crashed before Windows could load and 5.2Ghz (same voltage) crashed as I stressed it. According to online reports for my CPU's lot code my CPU should get 5.3Ghz easily so I don't get it... 5Ghz stable at 1.290-1.310v but not stable at 5.2Ghz 1.370v?

On a side note - when Windows crashes before even being able to load you occasionally get a screen asking to repair the OS or just restart. Should you run the repair? What can be damaged during boot due to an unstable overclock? Or just restart?

Run Cinebench and check the vdroop with CPU-Z. What is the LLC set to currently?

The repair screen is normal, I always just restart and run a disk check after Windows boots to the Desktop.