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normal? i let it run 2 hours, was fine for around 1 hour in.

temps are great less than 65 celsius on all cores.


should i just ignore this?
 
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Did the mobo turn on MultiCore Enhancement by chance? My Asus Z97 always turned it on if you touched the XMP option.
 

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When is the last time it was updated?

Get yourself hardware monitor by CPUID (CPU-Z creator)

Get yourself Blender and the Ryzen Module here follow those directions.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...zen-blender-benchmarks-at-200-samples.228686/

Get 7zip and a large compressed file, set 7zip to utilize all cores and threads.

Get Unigen Heaven/Valley.

Get the Latest 3DMark tool.

1. Have Hardware Monitor on Screen.
2. Run Ryzen Blender with those settings. If it completes successfully post your Voltages and temperatures here. If it freezes then a voltage might be too low, for my 8350 it was vcore at one point.
Post hardware monitor screenshot.

3. Run 7zip and decompress a large zip or 7z file, then compress it, with max cores/threads. Have hardware monitor open. Post images. If it freezes, check settings.

4 Run unigen tests and 3dmark. No freezes you are ok.

If everything doesnt freeze/bsod, ignore occt.
 

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Did the mobo turn on MultiCore Enhancement by chance? My Asus Z97 always turned it on if you touched the XMP option.


Yes, it is on. 4700 and no downclocking by default.

So do I just ignore the error?

@Solaris17 ty I will run it now. looks like I can just ignore the error message though, since i guess maybe it is normal if turbo boost is on
 
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You said full stock default settings in the thread title so that got me wondering. Anyways your overclocking, have you tried without MCE? I only asked because you could running be into instability that OCCT is picking up on.
 

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You said full stock default settings in the thread title so that got me wondering. Anyways your overclocking, have you tried without MCE? I only asked because you could running be into instability that OCCT is picking up on.

thanks mate. will turn off xmp, and MCE, and let it OCCT run over night, if no issues then i will turn on MCE but leave XMP off, see what happens. if clear then I know its the ram, if not then i will keep going down the list, and try no MCE but XMP on
 

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OCCT passed 12 hour run at 5ghz -2 avx 1.39v and offset of +0.40. I never had an offset before until now, so I guess it just needed a little more voltage, heh.
 
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OCCT passed 12 hour run at 5ghz -2 avx 1.39v and offset of +0.40. I never had an offset before until now, so I guess it just needed a little more voltage, heh.

That's degradation at work friend. It will slowly want more voltage over a year or two. Just the price you pay for more mghz
 

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That's degradation at work friend. It will slowly want more voltage over a year or two. Just the price you pay for more mghz

doubt it, lot of factors involved. my 2500k was 4,8ghz 24/7/365 for over 5 years. and still runs great at same everything in bios. its stable now, i just was doing something wrong and/or the MIS turbo enhancement in bios wasn't stable. when i say stock, i meant MSI stock which included the turbo boost to 4.7 no downclocking. msi just released a bios update stabilizing voltages too, so yeah its all related.
 
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Not all Silicon is the same, if your chip requires even a small voltage bump over its VID that is the very definition of degradation.
 

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Yup hence why some chips can handle hard ocs and others can't. The better the cooling you have on the cpu, vrms and even on back of board where the cpu socket and vrms sit, even where the nb/sb are the better it will survive.

What version is occt up to?

Also after doing a clear cmos you should load optimized defaults.
 

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when you say VID is too high, is this what you mean? even tho my temps are good and everything is stable my VID is too high on all 6 cores? this is stock MSI bios btw with turbo boost on lol

please advise if i need to turn this off. none of my manual oc's are stable.

 
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Unfortunately, I always set a static voltage and so don't have much advice here, but I would run the Intel Diagnostic tool at stock settings. If that fails you can always attempt an RMA.
 
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what i would recommend for you to do is to comb over a few pages of this thread over on OCN

http://www.overclock.net/forum/5-intel-cpus/1639998-i7-8700k-overclock-results-settings.html

when i'm trying to dial in an overclock typically i'll look at other peoples overclocks and voltages used to get a general idea of were the voltage curve for a certain model processor is at. take note of who has the lowest voltage for said clock and who has a very high voltage for the same clock. then mark down what seems to be the "average" voltage that most people are hitting around.

if you do this for 3 - 4 frequency levels ie: 5ghz, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 you can plot yourself out a curve of what voltage "should" be required for what ever frequency level your aiming for.

once you figure out your curve its time to test. start at the bottom and work your way up, after figuring out how much voltage your chip wants for each frequency level you can gauge how good of a chip you actually have and start aiming higher with that knowledge and basically "predict" how much voltage you should need for a given OC, obviously you'd want to test your settings but you get my point. just keep in mind that all processors have a frequency wall where you need a significant amount more voltage to maintain said clock, that's where you should aim for, just under that frequency wall.

as far as testing goes, your using the right tool a 30 minute non AVX test should suffice (unless your 3d modeling with blender, then use AVX) as stable followed up by a 12 hour aida 64 stress test (or world community grid), followed by another 12 hours of straight idling. if your rig does not blue screen during those tests i'd call it stable personally.
 
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if your chip requires even a small voltage bump over its VID that is the very definition of degradation.

No, it is not. Requiring a voltage bump for an overclock is not degradation.

when you say VID is too high, is this what you mean? even tho my temps are good and everything is stable my VID is too high on all 6 cores?

I wouldn't worry too much about the VID, it is always read high on my 8700K, pretty close to what yours is, even though the vcore is only 1.25v. The vcore is what you should be worried about, the VID hasn't really been worth looking at for casual overclockers in years.

And as long as your overclock is stable and your temps are acceptable, that's all that matters really.
 
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No, it is not. Requiring a voltage bump for an overclock is not degradation.



I wouldn't worry too much about the VID, it is always read high on my 8700K, pretty close to what yours is, even though the vcore is only 1.25v. The vcore is what you should be worried about, the VID hasn't really been worth looking at for casual overclockers in years.

And as long as your overclock is stable and your temps are acceptable, that's all that matters really.


If your cpu is unstable at stock speed and requires a small voltage bump what would you call that then?
 

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If your cpu is unstable at stock speed and requires a small voltage bump what would you call that then?

If your processor was unstable at stock speeds and requires a small voltage bump, and it is a new CPU or has always been like this, then I call that defective, not degradation.

Of course, his CPU wasn't at stock speeds, it was overclocked from the very first boot, so that point is moot.

Degradation is when a processor is completely stable at a certain clock speed and voltage, but over time becomes unstable at that clock speed and voltage.
 
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If your cpu is unstable at stock speed and requires a small voltage bump what would you call that then?

Keep in mind that while the specs under his name say 4.7 Ghz, in the case of an allcore boost that is still an OC.

Even turning on XMP on its own, is an OC for the CPU.
 

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ty all cheers

I figured out the issue, I was running Beta BIOS for the mobo which "tweaks cpu voltage", I went back to the last known stable BIOS, and 0 issues... 5ghz -2 avx, 1.40v, prime 95 small FFT for 3 hours now 0 issues. and before that 3 hours of OCCT 0 issues. lol. my bad mates.
 
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normal? i let it run 2 hours, was fine for around 1 hour in.

temps are great less than 65 celsius on all cores.


should i just ignore this?

Can you please test your CPU with other software as well? Such as IntelBurnTest and Prime95.
 

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Can you please test your CPU with other software as well? Such as IntelBurnTest and Prime95.

ah this topic can be closed... as I said it was a beta MOBO bios...

and yeah i run prime 95 12 hours and AIDA64 and OCCT all 3-6 hours each multiple times, and a 24 hour run. its all fine now. :) temps do get to about 80ish celsius area at 5ghz -2 avx offset and 1.40 volt with 0.015 + offset.

which is fine, but in gaming temps rarely go past 65 celsius.
 
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That's degradation at work friend. It will slowly want more voltage over a year or two. Just the price you pay for more mghz

Huh, Bullshit x100000

It can be a lot of things and its definitely not cpu degradation after a couple of months with a mild OC like this one.

ah this topic can be closed... as I said it was a beta MOBO bios...

and yeah i run prime 95 12 hours and AIDA64 and OCCT all 3-6 hours each multiple times, and a 24 hour run. its all fine now. :) temps do get to about 80ish celsius area at 5ghz -2 avx offset and 1.40 volt with 0.015 + offset.

which is fine, but in gaming temps rarely go past 65 celsius.

Glad you found your problem :) nice purchase btw the 8700k is a beast.
 
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Huh, Bullshit x100000

It can be a lot of things and its definitely not cpu degradation after a couple of months with a mild OC like this one.



Glad you found your problem :) nice purchase btw the 8700k is a beast.

Times 100 thousand huh? go ahead and prove me wrong by adding half a volt to your over clock and report back in a couple of months. Did you even bother reading the whole thread? It's pretty obvious op already found his solution so you don't need to keep bumping this thread because you disagree with what I said.
 
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