Instability with 4670k OC

How are you acheiving your oc? Are you manually changing everything in the bios or are you using a software suite? I recommend against suites as they tend to push a higher vcore yielding unnecessary heat at weaker oc's. Manually when patient and methodical you can learn the most about your specific chip and what it can and cannot handle. I don't know what guides you've been following but try a decent setting like 4.4GHz with 1.25v. Go up to 4.5Ghz and just run intel burn test, it gets hot fast and you can stop it on the spot but takes a finite amount of time to pass. While you're finding your right setting you'll hit the 80s and 90s which is uncomfortable for the long run but it happens. If it passes intel burn test on standard then lower your vcore to 1.2v if that doesn't crash, hang or bsod. If it works then lower it again to 1.15 (will most likely crash at 4.5GHz unless you have a better chip than mine). Go up to 1.19, if it survives without crashing haning artifacts etc then go down to 1.18, you'll eventually find your "sweet spot" for 4.5GHz and it may be higher than the example I'm giving and be more like 1.2v for all we know or your chip might not be a good ocer and you might need to to the same thing at 4.4GHz instead, either way, if you can acheive that and notice that we kept lowering vcore so of course you'll run cooler as we progress (if we progress). My 247oc I settled on was 4.4GHz w 1.145Vcore +.0085 manual offset. This rarely goes past 60c under load, 70s when on prime95 for hours on end. That's what I like but I did hit 4.8GHz once before when I was trying to figure it all out but I was maxing out at 97c which was way to hot for me even though it was stable. So, hopefully you'll find that vcore that gets temps at an oc your happy with. Once you're there you can then try a manual offset; read guides on that but the basic idea is it gives you an absolute value of how much overvolting it will do to give your vcore more when it needs it for a given oc setting if it's a + offset; the opposite for a negative one and how to find that is more than this tired guy is going to type. Anyhow, this further allows you to decrease your vcore a little bit more giving that final fine tuning. Some can't get a good offset though but that's a few steps ahead of where you are at for the moment but will be fun once you get there. Hope this helps!

Wow, those are way better temps! Now you can have some fun. Just be methodical. Have fun! Best of luck to you! I'm totally a dude. Justin is a boys name, Justine with an e would be a girl. So totally a dude!

Thanks,

Justin S.

I haven't had to play with multi-caching on my newer systems. It can be useful but I'd have to see what's effective or not as it wasn't necessary in any of my latest builds. I'm not sure how methodical you're being or if your chip is just not that good. I think we've tried most of what's typical. I saw the vid is 36min long. Don't have time to watch something like that atm but if I do I'll let you know what I think of it. Just be methodical if you apply anyone's approach including mine and make sure you understand what change caused what. If you change too much at once you'll spend a month or more trying to find that optimal oc when you can have it within the week or a couple of days depending on how much free time you have vs work. Keep me posted! I think you're getting there and learning a ton so it's all good bad chip or not!