- May 15, 2014
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It is so hard to overclock my Pentium for some reason. I set Vcore to 1.3 volts on a very light 3.8 GHz overclock in the bios and I see that the computer freezes every time to an error called WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. Went in the event viewer and I found out that it was an error of the CPU that happened when the frequency was changed through overclocking (error 5). So, yes, that means an unstable CPU for sure.
My system includes a Gigabyte z97x Gaming 5 motherboard, Adata XPG V1 8GB RAM 1600 MHz (tuned it down to 1333 MHz too), Pentium g3258, and a Corsair H80i (just bought that because I wanted to overclock). A Crucial MX100 SSD too. No GPU just yet. My PSU might be a bad one for overclocking, but without a GPU, an EVGA NEX750B shouldn't be that bad right???
Any ways, using software has just been a nightmare with Gigabyte's Auto Tune software which when I set to 4 GHZ overclock via performance boost, just ended up in a terribly unstable system (the CPU was apparently set to lower than 1.15 volts) and was almost impossible to reverse the effects because the overclock was on the OS. I did later set voltage to 1.33 volts to get it more stable, but it still crashed so I turned optimized defaults and that completely messed up the software (now it won't even overclock manually to my command).
I've run 4.2 GHz stable from Gigabyte Easy Tune at 1.3 volts, but that's only works when the computer is on the OS already. Always crashes during boot. Now the software doesn't work at all. Crashes on battlefield 4 as well at 4.2 GHz (yes, I have no GPU, but I'm testing). I'm also a noob when it comes to overclocking.
My last resort and most reliable way to overclock was the BIOS, but even then the CPU is so unstable (and I'm setting Vcore to over 1.3 volts!!).
Is there any way to solve these problems??? Any other settings I could change??? Or did I just get unlucky in the CPU lottery...
My system includes a Gigabyte z97x Gaming 5 motherboard, Adata XPG V1 8GB RAM 1600 MHz (tuned it down to 1333 MHz too), Pentium g3258, and a Corsair H80i (just bought that because I wanted to overclock). A Crucial MX100 SSD too. No GPU just yet. My PSU might be a bad one for overclocking, but without a GPU, an EVGA NEX750B shouldn't be that bad right???
Any ways, using software has just been a nightmare with Gigabyte's Auto Tune software which when I set to 4 GHZ overclock via performance boost, just ended up in a terribly unstable system (the CPU was apparently set to lower than 1.15 volts) and was almost impossible to reverse the effects because the overclock was on the OS. I did later set voltage to 1.33 volts to get it more stable, but it still crashed so I turned optimized defaults and that completely messed up the software (now it won't even overclock manually to my command).
I've run 4.2 GHz stable from Gigabyte Easy Tune at 1.3 volts, but that's only works when the computer is on the OS already. Always crashes during boot. Now the software doesn't work at all. Crashes on battlefield 4 as well at 4.2 GHz (yes, I have no GPU, but I'm testing). I'm also a noob when it comes to overclocking.
My last resort and most reliable way to overclock was the BIOS, but even then the CPU is so unstable (and I'm setting Vcore to over 1.3 volts!!).
Is there any way to solve these problems??? Any other settings I could change??? Or did I just get unlucky in the CPU lottery...
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