MSI Z87-GD65 OC guide anyone?
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lol ok i will try using oc genie as soon as i can restore my Bios a, koz atm i am using bios b, as something went wrong when i tried to update bios a, and now it wont do anything but give me a blank screen when i try booting bios a.
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I tried this method here:
http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160450.0
I seem to able to get to the end of that guide doing everything correctly, but still BIOS A does not boot and gives me a blank screen.
I tried another way as mentioned in the Z87-GD65 manual, much more simple way, and that seemed to partially fix it, but BIOS A is still dead. Only my BIOS B is working correctly, I'm very scared, koz if this goes im screwed.
BioVolt
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Switch to BIOS A on the board and press the clear CMOS button at the back panel, then boot with BIOS A to confirm if you indeed have a broken BIOS A or not.
Also, don't be scared of OC Genie, it does not overvolt the CPU, at least not with latest BIOS version.
I am running the same board and CPU and on OC Genie boost 1 it will give you 4ghz and OC Genie boost 2 it will enable XMP on ram and give you 4.2ghz at 1.2v which is nowhere close to what most of these CPU's can do.
Alot of people are lucky and get a "lucky" CPU (i5-4670k), which boots at 4.6ghz @ 1.2v with all other settings in BIOS on default, unfortunately I don't have one of those "lucky" chips.
Also: As per some other reviews and guides, the "intel extreme tuning utility" is used by alot of people on this board to do the actual overclocking.
azzazel_99
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Oc genie works perfect for me on my p67a-gd65[b3] with my 2500k. Clocks it at 4.2 ghz and works awesome! I think it overclocks the ram also but im not 100%.
GameModeOn
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I have just bought me the same board and I just use the OC genie. I'm running at 4ghz which is fine for me. I've update every thing on my motherboard except for a few things that I didn't really have no use for such as raid feature or virtual mode. So, I left those two features out. I haven't encounter any kind of issues such as BSOD on my board since I've just got it put together like 4 days ago. It's perfectly safe to use the OC genie feature. Unless you did something else to it to give you that over-voltage. Don't do anything else to it under the windows screen if you install that command software on your computer. I just install those so that way I can view it to see how every thing is running like temperature wise in window screen. As for flashing the bios. I just install the live update 5 software that came with the disk and use it to flash my motherboard in windows screen. I didn't even have to download it onto a flash drive to flash it under bios mode. Best way I did it is just close every other programs while using the Live Update 5 software to check for new update and just use the total install and let it do it's job while you watch and reboot it to complete the process.
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