Sup everybody. I've just built my first intel PC(built ~10 AMD computers) and as the title suggests I'm having some issues.
Specs:
i5 6500 Skylake
Asrock Z170M Pro4s
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 LPX
Asus Strix GTX 970(brought from previous AMD FX 8350 build)
Antec Earthwatts D-500 PSU
I set everything up, installed all the necessary programs, games, etc on my SSD. Did some stress testing stock (prime95,heaven 4.0) and everything checked out. At this point I booted up Witcher 3 and starting going to town. Everything on ultra had me getting ~50fps pretty consistently for about a half hour. At this point I decided it was time to OC the 970(which I didn't do in the last build it came from). After some tinkering around with MSI afterburner and
running Heaven a few times I boosted my score from 1304 to 1536 and everything was stable. Fired up Witcher 3 again and was getting a solid 57-60 fps. I was content with the GPU performance.
So then I rebooted my computer and went into the bios. It froze a couple of times and as per troubleshooting via google search I updated the bios firmware and bam no more freezage. Onto overclocking the CPU I raised the BCLK of the CPU to 125 putting me at 4.0ghz and raised the voltage to 1.325 as I had seen other people at 4.2ghz running at 1.350. I rebooted my computer and at this point I realize that HWMonitor apparently doesnt show temps for overclocked Non-K processors and its reading as i5 6500T. I still went ahead and ran prime95 for 30 mins with no failures so I just hopped back on witcher 3 and all the sudden I'm getting 45-47 fps with drops in the 30s which I hadn't gotten prior. I go back to the BIOS and knock the clock speed down to 3.8ghz with no noticeable difference in witcher 3 fps. At this point I revert my bios settings to the default. Still the same results. So I revert my GTX 970 back to default AND ITS EVEN WORSE. Barely stays at 40 now.
TL;DR: I overclocked my i5 6500/gtx 970 and even back at stock my fps in Witcher 3 are worse than they were before I started overclocking.
Thoughts? Any help would be appreciated greatly.
Specs:
i5 6500 Skylake
Asrock Z170M Pro4s
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 LPX
Asus Strix GTX 970(brought from previous AMD FX 8350 build)
Antec Earthwatts D-500 PSU
I set everything up, installed all the necessary programs, games, etc on my SSD. Did some stress testing stock (prime95,heaven 4.0) and everything checked out. At this point I booted up Witcher 3 and starting going to town. Everything on ultra had me getting ~50fps pretty consistently for about a half hour. At this point I decided it was time to OC the 970(which I didn't do in the last build it came from). After some tinkering around with MSI afterburner and
running Heaven a few times I boosted my score from 1304 to 1536 and everything was stable. Fired up Witcher 3 again and was getting a solid 57-60 fps. I was content with the GPU performance.
So then I rebooted my computer and went into the bios. It froze a couple of times and as per troubleshooting via google search I updated the bios firmware and bam no more freezage. Onto overclocking the CPU I raised the BCLK of the CPU to 125 putting me at 4.0ghz and raised the voltage to 1.325 as I had seen other people at 4.2ghz running at 1.350. I rebooted my computer and at this point I realize that HWMonitor apparently doesnt show temps for overclocked Non-K processors and its reading as i5 6500T. I still went ahead and ran prime95 for 30 mins with no failures so I just hopped back on witcher 3 and all the sudden I'm getting 45-47 fps with drops in the 30s which I hadn't gotten prior. I go back to the BIOS and knock the clock speed down to 3.8ghz with no noticeable difference in witcher 3 fps. At this point I revert my bios settings to the default. Still the same results. So I revert my GTX 970 back to default AND ITS EVEN WORSE. Barely stays at 40 now.
TL;DR: I overclocked my i5 6500/gtx 970 and even back at stock my fps in Witcher 3 are worse than they were before I started overclocking.
Thoughts? Any help would be appreciated greatly.
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