i7 920 MSI Pro-E Overclock problem help!!

Gerald1993

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Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right place to ask do forgive me if it's not.

Firstly, I'm pretty new to this but know a little here and there, but I'm willing to learn as much from the pros.

Here's my situation:

I set out to overclock my old rig cause my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU from playing BF4.

Initially, I did overclock to a mere 3.0~ GHz, but it still cause stuttering. The latest I did are as follows,
BClk: 160
Multiplier: 21
Mem Ratio: 3
Uncore: 6
Vcore: +0.030 Volts
Dram: 1.65volts

That gave me about 3.3~Ghz or so. Did abt an hour of Prime95, no errors, temps are in the early 70s range.

However, problems arose when I try to push it further, from this point, I only touch BClk, Vcore that's all. But at about 170 whenever I did the changes, and click 'Save and Exit', my computer just shutsdown, reboots, shutdown, reboot then go on to say the previous overclocking had error. I do not know where the error is, and when I push the voltage up a notch, this happens again. I have my C1E disabled, Spread Spec disabled, Overspeed protection Disabled. At one stage I had my BClk at 180 and Vcore at +0.060Volts, mem ratio at the lowest; 3. It still shutsdown and reboot without fail.

By the way it's a D0 revision chip
I'm kind of lost on where to begin, someone please help me!! I really appreciate anyone's help, do forgive me for being a newb at this, I'm willing to learn! Thanks guys!
 

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Does bf4 really need more than 3ghz cpu? I'd like to think that driver and game updates should be the first things to be done.

Regarding your reboots, go to bios and choose load defaults.
 

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Does bf4 really need more than 3ghz cpu? I'd like to think that driver and game updates should be the first things to be done.

Regarding your reboots, go to bios and choose load defaults.

Apparantly I did overclock once to 3.8Ghz, but I didn't test it properly I guess. It played pretty smooth, moreover I believe it's not playable cause it's a very old cpu chip.

How do I choose load defaults? Are you talking about Profiles where I save and load my settings? If not what are load defaults?

Thanks for your reply anyway!
 

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Not sure how your bios screen is like. But for sure there is a default setting in all bios. Just glanced thru ur manual for u and it says press f1 and choose load optimized defaults or bios defaults or something like that.
 

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For this motherboard, very easy to overclock. Just change the bclk to 200. Put everything else at default and auto. Don't adjust any voltages. The auto settings will take care of varying the vcore to stabilise the overclock.
 

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For this motherboard, very easy to overclock. Just change the bclk to 200. Put everything else at default and auto. Don't adjust any voltages. The auto settings will take care of varying the vcore to stabilise the overclock.

In this case, won't the voltage shoot so high beyond the required voltage and cause unnecessary heat?
 

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Not sure how your bios screen is like. But for sure there is a default setting in all bios. Just glanced thru ur manual for u and it says press f1 and choose load optimized defaults or bios defaults or something like that.

Okay! I'll try that! Thank you very much!!
 

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Latest update: I did the option to Load Optimized Defaults, everything when back to normal. Back to stock settings.

I then just push my BCLK to 180 giving it a 3.6GHz, and the problem is back again. It failed to start and keeps rebooting and shutting down for about 2 times before a message appears saying the previous overclock failed.

Help again! Thanks!
 
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That just means it needs more voltage for that frequency I guess. What Vcore were you at at your highest stable frequency?

Also, we need to rule out the possibility of the RAM acting up. What's your RAM and its rated frequency/XMP profile?

Also, this isn't exactly on-topic, but you have a good cooler for it right? the 920 can heat up like an oven when running full speed with a high OC.
 

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That just means it needs more voltage for that frequency I guess. What Vcore were you at at your highest stable frequency?

Also, we need to rule out the possibility of the RAM acting up. What's your RAM and its rated frequency/XMP profile?

Also, this isn't exactly on-topic, but you have a good cooler for it right? the 920 can heat up like an oven when running full speed with a high OC.

The most stable one I got was probably at 3.3GHz. Was running at about 1.2Volts or so, I can't remember the exact value because this motherboard is a '+0.00~' volts instead of choosing the voltage itself.

My ram is Team Elite 3 x 2GB 1333MHz Triple Channel, not sure of the timings.

My cooler I'm using H80 by Corsair, guess it's okay for the job.

Is my situation still 'savable'?:s22::s11:
 
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