Some of you might be aware that im building a PC for my brother with a Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 5 and my old 1700, So I got it built tonight and was doing some overclocking to get it to around 3.8GHz with a 3x3 configuration. Well I didnt quite understand how gigabyte was doing there stupid voltage offset (Why i could not just input the voltages is beyond me) and there is nothing in the manual on how that works and surprising little online about it either so I had to just assume and assumed it was going off the the lowest base like 1.1v for the core and 0.9v for the soc (the last board that i had that only did offsets did it like that) and so with that i gave the vcore a offest of +0.250 for a vcore of 1.35 and a vsoc of +0.200 for a vsoc of 1.1v or so i thought, I used HWinfo and look at the voltages and Vcore red 1.3v and Vsoc read 1.15v so all looked good and i stared stress testing.. about a hour in i noticed my temps were out of control on the CPU and VRM, so i did some more research and some one had listing the offset and the output voltages and fuck me I was running the Vcore at 1.5v and the Vsoc at 1.3v, and of coures i was looking at the voltage readout according to the CPU not the MOBD on HWinfo and sure shit I was just pounding the poor guy with way way to much voltae and it was under a stress test for over a hour by the time i realized.....
So I did set everything correct a Vcore of +048.0 and a Vsoc of +0.024 and so far so good, she is doing stress test right now but do you guys think I might have really hurt the chip, it was a short time to run it like that but i was way beyond the safety zone and every one says never go over 1.2Vsoc well i did for a while and now im worried, very worried.... I will see if the stress test pass and if they do I will be lest worried but for now quite upset that it happend and quite mad that Gigabyte made it this way and then did nothing to inform you on how it worked, like if they had a reference voltage listed next to the option so you knew what to add your offset too that would have been great but there is nothing, just stupid
BTW before you bash me for not doing my research before hand I did and I found mostly reddit threads of ppl taking about there overclocks and I think some of them were just as misinformed as me because abunch of there guys were running there 1600 at a 0.200 vcore offset witch is 1.5vcore but they did not seem to know that and that is part of the reason i started my offsets there thinking that was normal, I'm really dumbfounded to why there was nothing in the manual besides "Advanced Voltage Settings: This sub menu allows you to set CPU, chipset and memory voltages" that is word for word from the manual and would only be an acceptable explanation if i could directly input the voltages. Anyway thats my gripe but not why im here, let me know how bad my dumbdumb was, in the mean time im going to start pounding my head against the wall to make the pain stop
So I did set everything correct a Vcore of +048.0 and a Vsoc of +0.024 and so far so good, she is doing stress test right now but do you guys think I might have really hurt the chip, it was a short time to run it like that but i was way beyond the safety zone and every one says never go over 1.2Vsoc well i did for a while and now im worried, very worried.... I will see if the stress test pass and if they do I will be lest worried but for now quite upset that it happend and quite mad that Gigabyte made it this way and then did nothing to inform you on how it worked, like if they had a reference voltage listed next to the option so you knew what to add your offset too that would have been great but there is nothing, just stupid
BTW before you bash me for not doing my research before hand I did and I found mostly reddit threads of ppl taking about there overclocks and I think some of them were just as misinformed as me because abunch of there guys were running there 1600 at a 0.200 vcore offset witch is 1.5vcore but they did not seem to know that and that is part of the reason i started my offsets there thinking that was normal, I'm really dumbfounded to why there was nothing in the manual besides "Advanced Voltage Settings: This sub menu allows you to set CPU, chipset and memory voltages" that is word for word from the manual and would only be an acceptable explanation if i could directly input the voltages. Anyway thats my gripe but not why im here, let me know how bad my dumbdumb was, in the mean time im going to start pounding my head against the wall to make the pain stop