danielpowell511
Member
Hi all,
I ordered an 8600k OCed by PCS at 4.6GHz and very happy with it. However, I'm trying to OC to 4.7GHz more just to teach myself how to OC than anything else and running into a few problems on my Asus z370 TUF Plus Gaming board. Before OCing I did a 'control' test in Prime95 with the PCS OC settings of 4.6GHz at 1.3v but the voltages reported in HWMonitor were much higher (1.374.) Reading up on this suggested LLC was too high and an Asus guide I read on OCing Kaby Lake suggested setting IA AC/DC LOAD LINE to 0.01. I did this but the voltages were then much lower than 1.3v (1.225v, even under load), resulting in Core #3 failing after about a minute in Prime95.
Due to this I set IA AC/DC LOAD LINE both back to Auto and tried OCing to 4.7GHz anyway, but even inputting 1.325v and with IA AC/DC LL back on Auto, Core #3 fails after only about a minute in Prime95. I'm really loathe to increase voltages further given the massive voltage offset but don't want to admit defeat!
I'm struggling to find a dummies guide for this as all the terminology appears to be different to my bios, even to other z370 Asus bioses, so wondered if anyone had any idea what I was doing wrong? Have I just lost the 'silicon lottery?'
Dan
I ordered an 8600k OCed by PCS at 4.6GHz and very happy with it. However, I'm trying to OC to 4.7GHz more just to teach myself how to OC than anything else and running into a few problems on my Asus z370 TUF Plus Gaming board. Before OCing I did a 'control' test in Prime95 with the PCS OC settings of 4.6GHz at 1.3v but the voltages reported in HWMonitor were much higher (1.374.) Reading up on this suggested LLC was too high and an Asus guide I read on OCing Kaby Lake suggested setting IA AC/DC LOAD LINE to 0.01. I did this but the voltages were then much lower than 1.3v (1.225v, even under load), resulting in Core #3 failing after about a minute in Prime95.
Due to this I set IA AC/DC LOAD LINE both back to Auto and tried OCing to 4.7GHz anyway, but even inputting 1.325v and with IA AC/DC LL back on Auto, Core #3 fails after only about a minute in Prime95. I'm really loathe to increase voltages further given the massive voltage offset but don't want to admit defeat!
I'm struggling to find a dummies guide for this as all the terminology appears to be different to my bios, even to other z370 Asus bioses, so wondered if anyone had any idea what I was doing wrong? Have I just lost the 'silicon lottery?'
Dan