Question 9700k BSOD at 1.35v 5.0Ghz Gigabyte Aorus PRO.

[EpicSurvivor]

Just got a Gigabyte Aorus PRO and I get BSOD when trying to overclock at 1.35v to 5.0Ghz. Any ideas why? its brand new just got it in from Newegg today. XMP is enabled.

 

[yeshua]

BSODs are not limited to your CPU - they might be caused by RAM as well.

Can you confirm your system is 100% stable with stock CPU settings? Have you run memtest86 for at least a couple of hours?

In the end OC is often a lottery. It might be possible your CPU cannot run at 5GHz at this voltage.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

BSODs are not limited to your CPU - they might be caused by RAM as well.

Can you confirm your system is 100% stable with stock CPU settings? Have you run memtest86 for at least a couple of hours?

In the end OC is often a lottery. It might be possible your CPU cannot run at 5GHz at this voltage.

Computer is stable at stock for sure. I haven't ran memtest because the RAM is only 3 weeks old but its something I could do later. Its odd because I am running it at 4.9Ghz at 1.320v and it passed heaven benchmark (Just light testing) and Firestrike. Temperatures are looking good for the cooler I got.

 

[DrMrLordX]

You wouldn't use Heaven or Firestrike for CPU stability. Per se.

I would get one of the pre-AVX2 builds of Prime95 and run it in SmallFFTs to see what's up. That takes AVX/AVX2 off the table and also eliminates anything but cache from the equation as well.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

You wouldn't use Heaven or Firestrike for CPU stability. Per se.

I would get one of the pre-AVX2 builds of Prime95 and run it in SmallFFTs to see what's up. That takes AVX/AVX2 off the table and also eliminates anything but cache from the equation as well.

I am getting a replacement for the Motherboard turns out I can't even enable XMP without BSOD. Hoping this fixes the XMP and Overclock issue. Will report when I get the new one next week if I remember.

 

[DrMrLordX]

@EpicSurvivor

Good luck.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

@EpicSurvivor

Good luck.

Thanks man.