Overclocking my Intel 5820K CPU to 4Ghz problem

Ragahv

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I have the following hardware for my pc:

Motherboard: MSI X99s Gaming 7 motherboard
CPU: intel 5820K cpu clocked at 3.3Ghz.
RAM: Gskil DDR4 SDRAM clocked at 2400MHz.
Hard Drive : Samsung 3.5" HDD 500GB with MSI Ram disk (4GB enabled).
Graphics Card: MSI GTX 980 4G Video Card with default clock and memory rates.

I would like to overclock my cpu from 3Ghz to 4Ghz (overclock) for playing games like battlefield 4 online premium edition at ultra high settings and the best FPS. I hope this will boost the game FPS.
Anyway, What i have used is intel exteme tuning utility to set the cpu cores multiplyer to 40x from 33x. I have not touched the voltage and i have the internal cpu overide PLL disabled and the intel speed step technology enabled, and intel turbo boost enabled. The processor voltage is set to default. I was wondering if i dont't touch the processor voltage and leave the clock run at 4Ghz will it still work without changing voltage or would i need to apply a V of 1.100 V to cpu before i overclock?

When ever i play BF4 on my pc with my cpu clocked to 4Ghz the game freezes on lowest settings and exists then i get the BSOD and my pc shuts down. After 4 seconds it starts up and there is white font saying "the settings failled so press F1 to goto setup and F2 to load default settings". Basically i cant get my overclock to operate without my system crashing and ending up with blue screen every 10-20 min. Looks like my cpu is weak but if its weak then windows should be running software sluggishly too. My cpu is very good condition. Any one help me overclock and change settings without burning the cpu.
 
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I would highly recommend you do a lot of research and learn how to overclock properly, from within your BIOS. It is likely that you are not running stable because you did not increase your voltage. I say that you need to learn to overclock properly because every CPU is different (even two of the same chips will be different), and there are no magic settings that we can tell you to set everything to. You need to experiment with clock speeds and voltage to find what runs stable, while doing so at the lowest possible voltage. Also, you need to monitor your temperatures.

Everything overclocking related aside, you shouldn't need to overclock your chip to get good performance in games. the 5820k is an awesome CPU.

rowdymoody

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I would highly recommend you do a lot of research and learn how to overclock properly, from within your BIOS. It is likely that you are not running stable because you did not increase your voltage. I say that you need to learn to overclock properly because every CPU is different (even two of the same chips will be different), and there are no magic settings that we can tell you to set everything to. You need to experiment with clock speeds and voltage to find what runs stable, while doing so at the lowest possible voltage. Also, you need to monitor your temperatures.

Everything overclocking related aside, you shouldn't need to overclock your chip to get good performance in games. the 5820k is an awesome CPU.
 
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