I've been only overclocking through Bios all these years so I have whats up with these software packages that come with the motherboards.
I just finished building a pc with a MSI Z87 AC mobo with a i7 4770k. I tried going to 4.4 and it was stable, then 4.5 and it was ok (had to go high voltage) then after a while it became unstable and 4.4 never worked again either, I figured the cpu was bad so I exchanged it for a new one along with a new motherboard, psu, etc. The only thing I kept was the hard drive with the old win 8 installation and the new chip wasn't overclocking either, which meant it was an issue with windows.
So I reinstall windows (clean install) while overclocked and everything was fine until I was finished installing all my software and updates, it became unstable again. So it is obviously a piece of software that isn't allowing me to overclock past 4.1. If I go 4.4, it just barely logs into windows before blue screening, no matter what voltage. I had gone through a detailed guide upping ring voltage, cache voltage, cpu voltage, etc.
I was pissed off and in my desperation I open MSI Command Center, I didn't touch anything, I just upped my voltage up to 1.2, moved the slider to 4.5, pressed apply and.....stable 4.5 overclock while using aida extreme.. wtf? Temps don't go over 60 using a coolermaster seidon 120m and it isn't bluescreening on me.
This is my third experience with MSI mobos and I've had similar issues with all of them, what could be the issue here?
Anyway, I am done trying to overclock through this bios, I am going to do everything from command center now. Normally I don't like this as I've run in to situations where an unstable overclock keeps me from booting into windows and restoring bios to defaults does nothing because the software maintains it's configuration so the moment it logs into windows it kept bluescreening no matter what. The thing is, I rather take that risk than having to settle for 4.1 because the bios can't do any better.
I just finished building a pc with a MSI Z87 AC mobo with a i7 4770k. I tried going to 4.4 and it was stable, then 4.5 and it was ok (had to go high voltage) then after a while it became unstable and 4.4 never worked again either, I figured the cpu was bad so I exchanged it for a new one along with a new motherboard, psu, etc. The only thing I kept was the hard drive with the old win 8 installation and the new chip wasn't overclocking either, which meant it was an issue with windows.
So I reinstall windows (clean install) while overclocked and everything was fine until I was finished installing all my software and updates, it became unstable again. So it is obviously a piece of software that isn't allowing me to overclock past 4.1. If I go 4.4, it just barely logs into windows before blue screening, no matter what voltage. I had gone through a detailed guide upping ring voltage, cache voltage, cpu voltage, etc.
I was pissed off and in my desperation I open MSI Command Center, I didn't touch anything, I just upped my voltage up to 1.2, moved the slider to 4.5, pressed apply and.....stable 4.5 overclock while using aida extreme.. wtf? Temps don't go over 60 using a coolermaster seidon 120m and it isn't bluescreening on me.
This is my third experience with MSI mobos and I've had similar issues with all of them, what could be the issue here?
Anyway, I am done trying to overclock through this bios, I am going to do everything from command center now. Normally I don't like this as I've run in to situations where an unstable overclock keeps me from booting into windows and restoring bios to defaults does nothing because the software maintains it's configuration so the moment it logs into windows it kept bluescreening no matter what. The thing is, I rather take that risk than having to settle for 4.1 because the bios can't do any better.
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