Hello all,
I've been trying to overclock my 4770K for months, given up a few times, and tried again to no avail. Despite it being a Hackintosh, the inability to overclock is on the BIOS level and fails even before reaching the bootloader, so I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Tried everything as extreme as 4.2GHz, Vcore 1.25v, Uncore 4.1GHz, VRIN 1.8v and little as 3.7GHz, Vcore 1.1.
System Info: (Hackintosh, iMac 14,2 profile, Clover, El Capitan 10.11.5)
4770K @3.5GHz (unfortunately)
Hyper 212 EVO
Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H
Gigabyte Windforce OC GTX 770
Corsair RM650 PSU
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB
Seagate Barracuda 4TB HDD
WD Blue 1TB HDD
PROBLEM
I dial in the overclock, save BIOS settings, and reboot fine into Mac OSX. The overclock is recognized, I get stable performance, expected decent temperatures under air cooling, etc. The issue is when I completely power off the system and turn it back on with any overclock dialed in - the computer turns on, and immediately powers itself off for about 3 seconds, then turns back on, posts, and gives the Gigabyte "boot failure detected" error screen.
An identical issue occurs when enabling either of the two available XMP profiles or altering RAM clock speed or voltage in any way, even if I don't touch any stock frequencies or voltages from the CPU.
My thought was that there's an issue with the CPU's input voltage, due to the computer's initial shut-off and power back on at boot before the boot failure error, however, I'm still getting the error despite changing the VRIN voltage.
Is it possible I just have an absolutely awful chip?
Any other thoughts or questions are welcome.
Thanks so much
I've been trying to overclock my 4770K for months, given up a few times, and tried again to no avail. Despite it being a Hackintosh, the inability to overclock is on the BIOS level and fails even before reaching the bootloader, so I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Tried everything as extreme as 4.2GHz, Vcore 1.25v, Uncore 4.1GHz, VRIN 1.8v and little as 3.7GHz, Vcore 1.1.
System Info: (Hackintosh, iMac 14,2 profile, Clover, El Capitan 10.11.5)
4770K @3.5GHz (unfortunately)
Hyper 212 EVO
Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H
Gigabyte Windforce OC GTX 770
Corsair RM650 PSU
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB
Seagate Barracuda 4TB HDD
WD Blue 1TB HDD
PROBLEM
I dial in the overclock, save BIOS settings, and reboot fine into Mac OSX. The overclock is recognized, I get stable performance, expected decent temperatures under air cooling, etc. The issue is when I completely power off the system and turn it back on with any overclock dialed in - the computer turns on, and immediately powers itself off for about 3 seconds, then turns back on, posts, and gives the Gigabyte "boot failure detected" error screen.
An identical issue occurs when enabling either of the two available XMP profiles or altering RAM clock speed or voltage in any way, even if I don't touch any stock frequencies or voltages from the CPU.
My thought was that there's an issue with the CPU's input voltage, due to the computer's initial shut-off and power back on at boot before the boot failure error, however, I'm still getting the error despite changing the VRIN voltage.
Is it possible I just have an absolutely awful chip?
Any other thoughts or questions are welcome.
Thanks so much
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