Is this a symptom of a bad Overclock?

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jacobdu215

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So I am [strike]relatively [/strike] VERY new to overclocking and I was trying to OC my i5-7600K on the asrock z170 pro 4 mobo last night. I was able to get it all the way up to 4.8GHz @1.85V or at least I think I did. I was able to boot into my win 10 install and run aida64 extreme stability test for about 10 min at relatively good temps for air cooling imo (64-66C). So I decided to stop the test and run csgo. It at first booted up however after I attempted to load into a map, it kept crashing, like terminating the process from task manager. I tried to boot it a few more times but this time it wouldn't even get into the home screen/whatever in csgo. Would this be a symptom of a bad OC? Because I then simply reverted back to 4.7GHz and everything worked fine.
 
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get some stability testing software like aida64. after an oc always check stability/temps. there might be a time that your system might seem stable but isnt. like mentioned before you might want to check your vcore and see if its set to auto your mobo will try to compensate for the higher clock speed by giving way too much voltage. once you figure it out manually set your vcore and go up in incraments until your stability software will run for 12-24 hours but i usually do 6 hours once your stability software and your temps are where you would like them then boom you have a stable oc. getting a good decent overclock takes a little time and a lot of tweaking settings in your bios. i always tell people to read up on as much information as...
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adamscurr

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Sounds like you just went too high on the OC for the voltage... Which is why it was then stable at a lower OC...

I'm confused about your voltage, you said 1.3 to 1.5... If you have something like adaptive voltage on, you might want to turn it off so that you don't burn things up... 1.5 is too high and you don't want your chip pulling that much voltage on a daily basis...

Adam
 
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get some stability testing software like aida64. after an oc always check stability/temps. there might be a time that your system might seem stable but isnt. like mentioned before you might want to check your vcore and see if its set to auto your mobo will try to compensate for the higher clock speed by giving way too much voltage. once you figure it out manually set your vcore and go up in incraments until your stability software will run for 12-24 hours but i usually do 6 hours once your stability software and your temps are where you would like them then boom you have a stable oc. getting a good decent overclock takes a little time and a lot of tweaking settings in your bios. i always tell people to read up on as much information as you can. glad to see someone has stepped out of the default shadows and into the overclocking light.
 
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