Okay, I am resurrecting this thread as a new one because I marked my old one as solved, and bumped it but I honestly think people tend to skip over solved ones way more often.
Here is my original post from that thread (written earlier in the summer):
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Okay, this is the absolute strangest thing I have ever witnessed.
Just over a few weeks ago, I had to turn down my 4.2 GHz overclock to 4.0 GHz and lower the voltage to about 1.340v to get it stable.
Then, I had a stable system. Played CS:GO like a champ. Minecraft, L4D2, Borderlands, you name it, I could run it without any problems.
Then I restart my computer. Several hours later, bam, just crashes and restarts. Symptoms of crash are the same as when I notice the voltage is too low.
This time I added 0.020v to it. Typically you do 0.005v but I'm just too afraid that it will just keep doing this until it gets to a voltage that is "too high" and my temps are too high.
Is this normal? Is this how overclocking is supposed to work? Please help!
I got unsure about the results of my overvolting and was worried that my CPU was starting to die. The overclock was unstable and so I decided to reset the CMOS and test for stability under stock settings and whatever voltage CMOS reset set it to (I believe it was 1.2v).
It failed.
Namely, it doesn't seem to be provided enough voltage. Prime95 temps seem to be at 75c which I think is amazing for a Haswell chip but unfortunately it's not provided enough voltage.
Since I'm not at home anymore (in my dorm with my laptop), I cannot tell you what the voltage is set at on bios but AI Suite says it is at 1.2v. The chip is 4670k so I have no idea if that's normal or not for stock frequency.
Basically, I have a big plan to upgrade to Broadwell in the coming months and upgrade my RAM as well. I'm going to give this CPU, RAM sticks, my unused Sniper M5 motherboard, and other stuff to my brother, so in anticipation of that, I would really like someone to further educate me as to why my CPU is not stable after resetting CMOS and stuff. So, would anyone be able to provide some assistance with this one? Thanks!
AN IMPORTANT NOTE: I am at school now; my desktop (the machine this post is referring to) is actually at home, and I cannot test it at the location directly, so I am testing it remotely. The 1.2v was not from BIOS but from AI Suite 3, and I do not know if it is totally accurate. Furthermore, my guess about my system being unstable is due to my knowing previously how my computer reacted under low voltage (reset / windows + teamviewer opened up properly upon reset) versus how my computer reacted under too high voltage (BSOD, no reset, happens after long periods of time.) Secondly, I tested for stability by using Prime95 whilst remoted into Teamviewer, checked to see if the connection dropped, reconnected if it did drop, and noted whether or not any applications were even running / user was logged in still (also checking to see if Windows Update ran in case it was from that instead.)