Seem to have lost shiped OC, just slighty terrified the system is going to explode.

[CKF]

Just looking for some advice, I purchased a pre-OC'ed system from the company and received it a month or so ago, initially the OC appeared in the Asus BIOS AI Tweaker thing and also on the front page above the auto tune display as I saw it when I was disabling the on board audio in an attempt to get HDMI audio working, after about a week I had been getting constant 'driver' warnings in Windows for the motherboards built in blue-tooth. With the most recent drivers being used and me not really using blue-tooth I went into the BIOS and disabled it. About a day later I got an unexpected BSOD, while playing a game of Sims3 (Yes my taste is awful, lets just skip over that admission), since then it would seem any information the MB had re its manual OC settings were wiped.

I spoke to someone today at the store tech line who tried to help reset the original manual AI overclock settings, (I have no clue about OC'ing, I frankly don't want to risk it so that's why I bought it pre-OC'ed). On re-booting I ran Prime95 as recommended for half an hour consulting CPU-z, GPU-z etc, all cores were at 100% in task manager for the duration with no errors and no significant increase in temperatures that I was able to monitor but the speed never went above stock according to CPU-z.

Being suspicious I went back into the BIOS and it had reset itself to Auto again despite using F10 Save and reset on exiting each time.

I do plan to phone the tech guys again tomorrow but in the meantime I just wanted to run it past anyone knowledgeable with OC'ing, as I say, I have never done it and have no clue about it, I know the power supply exploded on this system on their first attempt to stress it prior to dispatch causing a minor delay in dispatch for order parts, as that's exactly the sort of thing I'm terrified about happening. :surrender:

I've put the order spec below if that helps in determining anything despite it being a general enquiry.

[B]Case[/B]
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 650D GAMING CASE

[B]Overclocked CPU[/B]
Overclocked Intel® Quad Core i7-3820 (3.6GHz @ max 4.4GHz)

[B]Motherboard[/B]
ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011

[B]Memory (RAM)[/B]
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST QUAD-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)

[B]Graphics Card[/B]
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

[B]Memory - 1st Hard Disk[/B]
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

[B]2nd Hard Disk[/B]
4TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD4001FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

[B]1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive[/B]
12x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

[B]Power Supply[/B]
CORSAIR 850W PRO SERIES™ HX850-80 PLUS® GOLD MODULAR (£138)

[B]Processor Cooling[/B]
Corsair H100 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)

[B]Thermal Paste[/B]
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

[B]Sound Card[/B]
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

[B]Network Facilities[/B]
DUAL-BAND WIRELESS 802.11N 450Mbps PCI-E CARD (£35)

[B]Operating System[/B]
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

postscript: I emboldened the headers, added line spacing and used a code box to hopefully reduce the need for scrolling and give better reading clarity. i've also omitted lines that were "Nothing" or "As standard" installed or chosen, external drive, delivery & warranty options etc as seemed superfluous.

 

[tom_gr7]

hmm, my knowledge of overclocking is limited. But from what I know the cpu would sit at stock speeds until pushed hard enough to go over the 3.6 up to 4.4

I would suggest, running prime 95 again, the press control alt delete, into task manager, then on the performance tab see how high the cpu usage goes.

I'd also suggest, staying away from the ASUS Ai Tweaker, I think that this is totally different from the OC'in that PCS do from the bios.

 

[steaky360]

Tom is correct, +1

Basically the CPU will sit at its stock 'non-turbo' speed until it is pushed, only then would it reach the turbo or overclocked speeds. If the CPU is not boosting to the overclocked speed then pcs will supply the correct settings for you to return your CPU to its over locked state and explain which bios settings to alter etc.

Admittedly prime 95 would have been pushing the CPU hard enough so you should be able to see the boosted speeds when it's running. Hopefully tech support will give you a hand tomorrow!

Using asus ai tweak is slightly different and personally I would steer clear of those types of program's and overclock through the bios manually anyway.

 

[CKF]

Thanks to both of you for trying to help, I'm sorry I didn't post back yesterday evening as I had planned but something came up and by the time I was home I was too tired to look into it in detail. After speaking to a couple of the guys at PCSpecialist today who very kindly emailed me some settings then helped walk me though it over the phone it seems (hard to read CPU-Z with the next to nil knowledge I have) all is back as it was.

I can't seem to upload or attach an image of the application but I'm reading in the CPU tab of CPU-z under the "Clocks" heading, core speed is currently noted as 4300.09 and multiplier at x43, like I said previously with my lack of knowledge I may well be wrong but this seems to be much closer to what it was supposed to be.

I still don't know why it lost the settings originally or for that matter why they didn't save fully yesterday so it is something I will have to be mindful to look at from time to time but just wanted to come back to say thanks again for trying to assist my addled mind.

 

[PokerFace]

I can't seem to upload or attach an image of the application

I'm note sure if this is the reason, but I think images and links will only appear in your posts once you have posted at least 5 (I think that's the number) times. As you only have 3 posts to date, this may be why. Alternatively, you may be a donkey (like me) and did something wrong when trying to attach the image