URGENT HELP NEEDED FOR i5 6600k

PC-4LIFE

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Hi, I have my cpu stable at 4.3GHz at 1.32VCore.

I wanted to push this further, so I did 4.4GHz at 1.33VCore.

While booting up it took an abnormally long time to get onto the desktop, stuck at sign in page for a minute. Usually I have 5 second boot times. Once I did get in, I ran Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to check how everything was, and it shows nothing. It shows temps at 0C, CPU usage 0%, 0 everything. If i go to the overclock setting in IETU it shows that cpu clock is 44x and vcore is default. I don't know why this is happeneing.

I ran CPUID CPU-Z and that froze at 65% Storage, something it never does. If I run the MSI version it loads up and shows that the CPU is at 4400MHz.

Obviously the cpu is working, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't. What's happening? I increased VCore to 1.335 but same problem. Is my CPU just unable to go over 3.5GHz or what?

In SpeedFan it shows my cpu and system temperature is -1C. Obviously not, it shows my GPU is a little over 60C.

Thanks.


EDIT: IN MSI AFTERBURNER I can see my CPU temps are about 40C + I can see my CPU usage in task manager, which seems normal. My SSD is running at 100% active time for some reason though.

EDIT EDIT: Changed clock speed back to 4.3GHz and VCore to 1.25 and now everything seems to be working normally again. So why is that?
 
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Fixed it, after some research I realised my CPU cache clock (Which was 4.1GHz) is too low for my core clock speed. Apparently they need to be within 500MHz of each other. Anyway I'm overclocking further now with no problem, thanks for reading if not responding.

Can a mod mark this as solved or something, thanks.

PC-4LIFE

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Fixed it, after some research I realised my CPU cache clock (Which was 4.1GHz) is too low for my core clock speed. Apparently they need to be within 500MHz of each other. Anyway I'm overclocking further now with no problem, thanks for reading if not responding.

Can a mod mark this as solved or something, thanks.
 
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