4670k woes

balky12 · 2 Jan 2017 at 20:00

Hey 8 Pack,

Probably not the correct place for it but I am out of options. other kind members tried to help me but to no avail. Finally decided to overclock my 4670k but I am having no luck what so ever.

Tried keeping it simple, just playing with vcore and multiplier. Then tried playing with uncores and locking memory. Just can't find a stable overclock under real world use. Well, mainly battlefield 1. Game just freezes, not necessarily BSOD.

I have got to 4.1mhz with 4 hours of realbench, but within 30 mins of gaming it will lock up.

Temps do not seem an issue with my Akasa Nero S cooler. Under realbench they stay below 70c.

Here are the readings from hwinfo however:

I have a feeling I might have just lost the silicone lottery.

Any suggestions would be great... failing this I might just have to look into saving for a new gen and ddr4 system. Can't see any upgrades for socket 1150 being worth the money for any performance gains.

8 Pack · 15 Jan 2017 at 14:43

You sure teh issue is not the game?? Try other games before presuming its your system. I mean real bench much tougher than BF1.

Babyjeffrey · 31 Jan 2017 at 19:12

You sure the bottleneck is the CPU, usually for games its the graphics?

The chip should be easily powerful enough for BF 1.
http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page4.html

Brizzles · 15 Mar 2017 at 17:12

Try disabling the iGPU.

Unless you use it ofc

Finners · 15 Mar 2017 at 18:37

Drop your uncore to something like 3600mhz to rule that out.

What is your memory configuration? Looks like you have 12gb which is an odd number.

balky12 · 3 Apr 2017 at 14:01

Brizzles said:
Try disabling the iGPU.

Unless you use it ofc

Finners said:
Drop your uncore to something like 3600mhz to rule that out.

What is your memory configuration? Looks like you have 12gb which is an odd number.

SOrry guys haven't checked this in a while and haven't bothered playing around with the OC for a while. Will try your suggestions thanks.

I have 8gb of Avexir Venom. 2x4gb.

SaTrOx · 20 Oct 2017 at 04:59

I had similar problem, and the issue was ram not processor try running memtest86 overnight and see if it gives you any errors.

Do it on default bios settings.

Scania · 13 Nov 2019 at 07:09

balky12 said:
SOrry guys haven't checked this in a while and haven't bothered playing around with the OC for a while. Will try your suggestions thanks.

I have 8gb of Avexir Venom. 2x4gb.

Recommend spec for BF1 is 16Gb, a mate of mine was getting constant lock ups with BF1 and 8Gb, he’s now got 16Gb and the lock ups have stopped.

Have you tried winding back the graphics settings to see if the freezes persist?