Asus Z170 Pro Gaming freezing during profile selection

[Deaf Spacker]

Well I'm open to suggestions

 

[Kilbane]

4.5 should be a pretty simple achievement as you have already been running at that speed. 1st off we need to lower the voltage to see how low it will go while staying stable.

Go for around 1.25v on Vcore and set your multiplier at 45. If it works and is stable while running something like occt, then reduce the voltage slowly until you find out where it becomes unstable. Alternatively, increase voltage if unstable.

You get the idea. Overclocking really is as simple as finding the right combination of multiplier and voltage to get stable. Once that has been found you are able to fettle other voltages and settings to try and eek out any more power.

Personally I would start on lowering your VCore, once that is done let me know how low it goes, and we can look at getting a little more speed depending on temps.

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Cheers dude, on it like a car bonnet.

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Well it got to 1.250V perfectly fine, temps seemed great, blue screened at 1.230V so I upped it to 1.240V and this is the result:

 

[Kilbane]

Much better.

Try your multiplier at 46, with the same voltage, then bring the voltage to where it is stable. What memory do you have? is it set to the correct speed in the bios?

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Balls, just blue screened in GTA V Upped back to 1.250V now.

I have 16GB Corsair Vengeance 2666MHz DDR4, but now you've mentioned it it's showing as 2133MHz in the bios, I'm not running an XMP profile, could that be why?

 

[Kilbane]

Setting XMP is the quickest and easiest way to get it. Alternative is to set it manually. To be honest XMP works fine 99% of the time.

GTA V is common to find a bad OC. I have had mine stable at all sorts of settings in everything bar GTA V. If stable at 1.25 in GTA V, it is 100% stable

 

[Deaf Spacker]

The thing that I'm a bit confused about was like I said in my OP, GTA V was blue screening at 4.6GHz - 1350V which Scan set up.

I'll set the XMP profile now.

 

[Kilbane]

Give it a go at the lowest voltage you can manage. May seem strange to say, but if your CPU is throttling through thermal limits it could well be causing BSODs while playing GTA V.