Overclock causing choppy graphics and tearing

willowen100

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Hey guys

I have the Haswell Intel Devil’s Canyon i7-4790K with the 4600 graphics. I recently bought a Samsung S27D850T which has a resolution of 2560 × 1440 and my older monitor being a Samsung S27D590C that displays at 1920 × 1080. I primarily bought the 2K monitor as my main desktop that was an upgrade from an old TV with HDMI. As I already had the 1080p monitor which I use to play my game consoles on, I decided to also use it as an extended display alongside the 2K monitor. The problem I have is on the 1080p monitor I get very choppy graphics whilst my monitors are in extended display configuration. My system is overclocked at 4.8GHz with mixed RAM speeds 1060/1333 overclocked to 1600MHz. The CPU cache is also OC'd to 4.6GHz so it’s not 1:1 with the CPU as I don’t particularly want to have a voltage of 1.4v+, and I’m happy with 1.38v. Out of curiosity I saved my overclock settings to a profile and loaded the system default settings within the bios. Weirdly the jittery and tearing graphics seem to have disappeared, so my overclocking must be to blame here. Because I would like to re-enable my overclocking what is causing the graphics behave like this?

Any help appreciated

Will

P.S My motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2
 
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You should try playing around with your monitor's settings. I think it might be the refresh rate. I would try running both at the same. (like 40-60hz).

willowen100

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I removed all of the settings I changed to manual back to auto and left the only thing overclocked which was the CPU core voltage at 4.8GHz and 1.4v and some CPU load line settings etc. but the problem persisted. Heat shouldn't be a problem because I have Corsairs twin 14cm fan liquid cooler.

What's really interesting is even on stock settings when I scroll through Facebook on my 2K monitor with a film in VLC running on the 1080p screen I notice the slightly jerky graphics again.
 

willowen100

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I have already tried turning it vsync off but there is no 'off option' as seen in this guide found here
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005552.html

Excluding the tearing, the graphics shown on the extended display are still choppy whilst I'm carrying out tasks on my main display. The best way to descirbe the choppiness is like watching something at a low frame rate.

UPDATE:
I've uploaded a video demonstrating tearing in duplicate mode and then some graphic fluctuations in extended mode.
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDzUDLTtjs"][/video]
 

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You should try playing around with your monitor's settings. I think it might be the refresh rate. I would try running both at the same. (like 40-60hz).
 
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