Please help. Need to fix OC on i5-4670K

Rypp

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Hi,

I bought a pre-overclocked machine and I had my BIOS reset to default, so I need to reapply my OC. I have asked for help from the place I got it but I'm not getting very far.

The settings I have been provided with are below, I cannot see the System Agent Voltage in my BIOS, only System Agent Offset. When I queried this I was told "Your board does'nt have system agent voltage so either leave that blank, or put it in the offset"

Doesn't sound too reassuring but I did it anyway, the offset value turned purple (which I'm told was ok) but after running the system for a couple of hours it blue screened. I restored the defaults and it ran fine all day so something is up with these settings.

Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-4670k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.20GHz)

ASUS® Z97-A:

16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P (2 x 8GB)



AI Overclock Tuner: XMP
BLCK Freq:
Turbo Ratio: By All Cores
By All Cores: 42
Internal PLL OverVoltage:
Mem Freq: XMP Default
EPU Power Saving: Disabled
Load-Line Calibration:
VRM Freq:
Phase Control:
Duty Contorl:
CPU Manual Voltage: 1.25V
DRAM Voltage: XMP Default
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Ratio:
CPU C States: Disabled
EIST: Disabled
SVID Support: Disabled
System Agent Voltage: 0.4V

I really hope you can give me some advice. I have never overclocked anything and don't want to break my new machine.

Thank you in advance.
 
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With ASUS boards, im pretty sure you can just auto-overclock using the ASUS AISuite 3 software, you simply click the desired overclock and it begins tailoring it for your machine. Although auto-overclocks tend to give a bit extra voltage than what manual overclocking could yield, mine actually clocks better than what standard manual achieves for most people (but probably because of good chip).

Go to AISuite 3>click on 4-Way optimization>click advanced settings>click desired overclock in mhz (4200=4,2Ghz)>click start
then it should reboot the machine and when it starts don't touch anything, it will take a moment but then AISuite should pop-up and begin the overclock, just leave your machine for the time, it probably takes 2-4 min.

Hope...

NiCoM

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With ASUS boards, im pretty sure you can just auto-overclock using the ASUS AISuite 3 software, you simply click the desired overclock and it begins tailoring it for your machine. Although auto-overclocks tend to give a bit extra voltage than what manual overclocking could yield, mine actually clocks better than what standard manual achieves for most people (but probably because of good chip).

Go to AISuite 3>click on 4-Way optimization>click advanced settings>click desired overclock in mhz (4200=4,2Ghz)>click start
then it should reboot the machine and when it starts don't touch anything, it will take a moment but then AISuite should pop-up and begin the overclock, just leave your machine for the time, it probably takes 2-4 min.

Hope this was to some help! :)


EDIT: Think they changed it a bit to be 5-Way optimization in the Z97 boards, im using Z87.

EDIT2: IMPORTANT, CPU C State is what disables parts of the CPU when the pc is in different modes like sleep mode. Both these settings should normally just be enabled really. EIST is also what changes the clock frequency after what's needed, will save power to have on but some say that their slower CPU's feel faster with it disabled.
 
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