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Im not that new to overclocking. I overclocked my i7 4790k up to 4.6 ghz and my voltage was 1.265 V. I tested for around 3 hours and i got no crashes but if i tested 100% of my ram i got crashes so i tested 50% of it. everything worked fine for the first two months but then crashes started to happen so i tried everything to fix the problem but couldnt find anything. Now i just reset my overclock. Will my cpu work normal again now? What could i have done to fix my crashes? I still got the settings saved but im using the reset versions now. I got 16gb of ram but only tested 8gb without crashes. Thanks for your answers
 
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You may just have a bad DIMM. Seen that before.

Two option:
1) Pull 1 DIMM and test memory at 100% utilization to see if there's still issues. Whether there is or not, repeat that test with just the single other DIMM installed by itself. If you get crashes with one DIMM and not the other, there's your culprit. If it crashes with either DIMM its not RAM related.

2) Pull memtest from passmark.com, make the bootable thumb drive, boot to it and see if it shows any errors during its runs. That should indicate you have a bad DIMM. Granted if you do then you've gotta do test (1) above to figure out which DIMM is bad anyway...

Updating your BIOS (if there's a newer version available) is never a bad idea either, especially with RAM...
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You may just have a bad DIMM. Seen that before.

Two option:
1) Pull 1 DIMM and test memory at 100% utilization to see if there's still issues. Whether there is or not, repeat that test with just the single other DIMM installed by itself. If you get crashes with one DIMM and not the other, there's your culprit. If it crashes with either DIMM its not RAM related.

2) Pull memtest from passmark.com, make the bootable thumb drive, boot to it and see if it shows any errors during its runs. That should indicate you have a bad DIMM. Granted if you do then you've gotta do test (1) above to figure out which DIMM is bad anyway...

Updating your BIOS (if there's a newer version available) is never a bad idea either, especially with RAM related issues.
 
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