Hey guys I've been having a lot of trouble getting my current overclock past 4.2Ghz, and I was wondering if maybe I had a faulty PSU or Motherboard.
Current specs:
CPU = i5 2500k
CPU fan = COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard = MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130611
PSU = OCZ ZX Series 850W Gold
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341044&Tpk=ocz%20modular%20850w
GPU: 1 gtx 570
When Overclocking, I have followed the exact same settings as the pictures on this guide: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18340310
The problem is that whenever I run prime 95, with overclocks over 4.2 Ghz, I end up getting the error of: expected .5 got .4, on my last worker. Does this error mean my cpu is not getting enough voltage?
I also noticed that even when overclocking at 4.5Ghz, my PSU doesn't seem to want to give my CPU more than 1.248v, (this number comes from CPU-Z) whereas other people with my same board, CPU and settings seem to be getting around 1.3v. Is it possible that my PSU is faulty?
In addition when I went into my bios and manually set the CPU core voltage to 1.3, my system failed to boot and I got a blue screen which said: A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval etc...
Attempts to overclock my video card even at just 840Mhz have also failed. My system ends up crashing after about 1-2 hours of bf3.
My problems are certainly not temperature related as I stay below 70degrees at 100% full load.
I'm really hoping you guys can help me determine if there's an issue with my system, because I paid good money and I was expecting to be able to perform high overclocks.
Current specs:
CPU = i5 2500k
CPU fan = COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard = MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130611
PSU = OCZ ZX Series 850W Gold
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341044&Tpk=ocz%20modular%20850w
GPU: 1 gtx 570
When Overclocking, I have followed the exact same settings as the pictures on this guide: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18340310
The problem is that whenever I run prime 95, with overclocks over 4.2 Ghz, I end up getting the error of: expected .5 got .4, on my last worker. Does this error mean my cpu is not getting enough voltage?
I also noticed that even when overclocking at 4.5Ghz, my PSU doesn't seem to want to give my CPU more than 1.248v, (this number comes from CPU-Z) whereas other people with my same board, CPU and settings seem to be getting around 1.3v. Is it possible that my PSU is faulty?
In addition when I went into my bios and manually set the CPU core voltage to 1.3, my system failed to boot and I got a blue screen which said: A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval etc...
Attempts to overclock my video card even at just 840Mhz have also failed. My system ends up crashing after about 1-2 hours of bf3.
My problems are certainly not temperature related as I stay below 70degrees at 100% full load.
I'm really hoping you guys can help me determine if there's an issue with my system, because I paid good money and I was expecting to be able to perform high overclocks.