[SOLVED] Corsair CX750M can't hold i7 4790K & 780 Ti playing The Witcher 3

[EarthDog]

edit ... what baffles me is ... 4 powerphase on a Z97 chipset... , i wouldn't even OC my CPU on that kind of board ... there is plenty good and reasonably priced 8+2 phases around the market.

I would. It's intel, not amd fx man. You won't be breaking any records with it, but it will handle any low to mid 4ghz oc.

At the very least, flip the white fan so it is pulling in cool air. The way it is right now, both fans are pulling air out, which is probably not doing much for airflow over the VRM

there is intake in the front, it's moving air over them.. again, this is intel peeps! That said though, if they are hot to the touch, do get more airflow over them.

The problem with flipping the airflow around is airFLOW. I would add another small fan on the vrm IF NEEDED before I reversed airflow.

Review showing 4.5ghz stable..http://www.pureoverclock.com/Review-detail/gigabyte-z97x-sli-motherboard-review/10/

 

[GreiverBlade]

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I would. It's intel, not amd fx man. You won't be breaking any records with it, but it will handle any low to mid 4ghz oc.

there is intake in the front, it's moving air over them.. again, this is intel peeps! That said though, if they are hot to the touch, do get more airflow over them.

The problem with flipping the airflow around is airFLOW. I would add another small fan on the vrm IF NEEDED before I reversed airflow.

Review showing 4.5ghz stable..http://www.pureoverclock.com/Review-detail/gigabyte-z97x-sli-motherboard-review/10/

"it's intel" "this is intel peeps" ... kinda love that kind of addition

also i love how that board is just a tad higher than the price of my Maximus VII Ranger, well when i bought it .... it was 154.50chf and all proportion kept to the actual price of the Giga mobo it's only 24.50chf(26.06$) more, now that MVIIR is around 239$ i thought computer hardware prices decrease over time ... not increase

i know 4 phase is enough for a intel cpu ... but more a Celeron/pentium eventually i3 or a low i5 but not a 4690K less a 4790K (yes i did read that review and the 4770K OC ... but it's a review site, not a regular pc user)
not saying it's a bad budget oriented board, but if stretching a bit the budget you can end up with something a bit more beefy (and still around 140-150$ while that board is listed at 129.99$) of course ... now if where the OP live there is no other options ... it's another story

 

[EarthDog]

For a higher price there are better boards. No doubt. But that board is fine for a 4690K or a 4790K well into 4GHz range. Remember with the inclusion of the FIVR on die, the motherboard VRMs do not play as important of a role with Intel processors.Now, I wouldn't push much pas that or suggest it for water and pushing with that cooling. It will handle air overclocks to 4.5Ghz.

 

[Saru]

Well, I did some changes that you guys recommended...

There is more space now, the fans are putting air out. I think there will be no problem for the VRM's temps

 

[Saru]

Should I try to do the Furmark and Prime95 tests at the same time?

 

[newtekie1]

I would. It's intel, not amd fx man. You won't be breaking any records with it, but it will handle any low to mid 4ghz oc.

His processor already boosts to 4.4GHz. So, no, I wouldn't overclock beyond that with a 4-Phase motherboard. Intel may be power efficient, but there is still a limit to what a 4-Phase motherboard is capable of.

there is intake in the front, it's moving air over them.. again, this is intel peeps! That said though, if they are hot to the touch, do get more airflow over them.

The problem with flipping the airflow around is airFLOW. I would add another small fan on the vrm IF NEEDED before I reversed airflow.

Review showing 4.5ghz stable..http://www.pureoverclock.com/Review-detail/gigabyte-z97x-sli-motherboard-review/10/

The front fan isn't moving air over them. It is bringing in fresh air, but blowing it right on hard drive cages. The way it was set up before the back half of the VRM was covered by the radiator and getting zero airflow.

And just because it is stable at 4.5GHz, doesn't mean it will last and not die an early death. I've seen boards with overheating VRMs that ran perfectly stable for a good while, but they were running so hot the motherboard started to discolor, and they ran fine all the way up until the day the board just died on day.

 

[Saru]

Hey, guys...

After doing the changes, running Furmark and Prime95 at the sametime, after 30 ~ 35 minutes, there was no shutdown, but this:

 

[Saru]

I was test Witcher 3... in 2 minutes, the PC shutdown.

That's enough, gonna buy another PSU, will give my CX to my dad. And that's it...

Oh and about the Furmark and Prime 95 tests, the PC did shutdown with MSI Afterburner opened. Without it, it just did a BSOD...

I'm gonna try the last test, running Witcher 3 without MSI afterburner...

 

[rtwjunkie]

Please @Saru stop using furmark. It's GPU abuse. There is no reason to abuse your card like that.

Benchmark your card with Heaven and Valley if you want, but the best test is to play games with it. I feel a pain in my chest and my heart goes out to every poor GPU I hear someone using Furmark on.

 

[Saru]

with it. I feel a pain in my chest

Please @Saru stop using furmark. It's GPU abuse. There is no reason to abuse your card like that.

Benchmark your card with Heaven and Valley if you want, but the best test is to play games with it. I feel a pain in my chest and my heart goes out to every poor GPU I hear someone using Furmark on.

Got it.

Thanks

 

[Saru]

So... 1 hour playing The Witcher 3 and no problem has occurred so far.

MSI Afterburner can affect my PSU? or other things that can shutdown the PC?

I had read some experiences of players running TW3 using MSI Afterburn, and these experiences were not very good with high-end PC's, but mid-end systems doesn't affect so much...

 

[rtwjunkie]

I use MSI afterburner, and also use it to create an 8point fan profile to keep GPU cool. It shouldn't affect you TW3. Works great on mine.

 

[Saru]

I use MSI afterburner, and also use it to create an 8point fan profile to keep GPU cool. It shouldn't affect you TW3. Works great on mine.

Hum, perhaps my MSI is outdated?

 

[Saru]

No, its not...

Well, I think I will buy an EVGA G2 750W

 

[R-T-B]

No, its not...

Well, I think I will buy an EVGA G2 750W

The EVGA's are great PSUs... That particular one is an excellent SuperFlower OEM build. I can't guarantee it will fix your problem, but I can say you it will at least rule out the PSU as they are of very high quality.

 

[EarthDog]

His processor already boosts to 4.4GHz. So, no, I wouldn't overclock beyond that with a 4-Phase motherboard. Intel may be power efficient, but there is still a limit to what a 4-Phase motherboard is capable of.

Yep, there is and it's not 100 mhz over boost with all cores. Trust me.

 

[HWTactics]

Yep, there is and it's not 100 mhz over boost with all cores. Trust me.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Pureoverclock.com managed only exactly 4.5GHz with a 4770K and beyond that the system was unstable. They even needed an ugly 1.546V core to get there.

"As you can tell from the overclocking, while the Z97X SLI can handle overclocks, temps were way out of range, and voltages were high in order to hold the 4770k stable. In past reviews, we have been able to get the 4770K stable at 4.4GHz to 4.5GHz at 1.35volts, but this can be due to multiple things such has its lower VRM phase, however we needed to make some changes to gain stability."

Rather than saying "trust me" I'd prefer to see info like this to back up claims

 

[EarthDog]

I didn't say it would be at the same voltage as other boards. I just said it will do it, and it does. That specific board may have a weaker 4 phase vrm versus others I have used. It's heatsinked though.. that 1/5 the battle. Lol!

But the bottom line is it will do low to mid 4 ghz as I said in my initial post.

 

[newtekie1]

Yep, there is and it's not 100 mhz over boost with all cores. Trust me.

Boost with all cores is 4.2GHz. And, as I said, it probably will handled the overclock for a short period of time, but I wouldn't run it that way for long.

 

[EarthDog]

The increase in voltage is a hit concerning on this board honestly. But there are many z97 4 phase boards that will handle 4.5ghz with such significant differences in voltage.

 

[Saru]

Guys, calm down... my CPU is at 4.0 Ghz

Last time, was 4,4 Ghz because Turbo Boost was on, but I turned off...

 

[GreiverBlade]

ok definitively it's a motherboard for a Pentium G3258 and that's all (and was meant for that by Gigabyte.) @EarthDog, pointless discussion is pointless, let's just end this.
(and i might be right ... any 4 phase Z97 are just conceived so people can OC a G3258 by a official mean: you don't pair a 4690K/4790K with a cheap board ... you pair a cheap CPU with a cheap board )

Guys, calm down... my CPU is at 4.0 Ghz

Last time, was 4,4 Ghz because Turbo Boost was on, but I turned off...

thanks Saru... also could you not triple post alll the time, there is a button on the bottom left of yur last post (or any post you wrote) who's function is edit

ps: as @rtwjunkie wrote Furmark itself is already a real bad idea, but running it alongside with Prim95 ... that's even worse, you never run load intensive stress software unless you want to fry something in your rig (and with 4 phase ... it would be the motherboard before the PSU) and that said ... not even The Witcher 3, as ressource heavy as it is, would pull more than 1/3 of the load generated by a simultaneous run of those 2 software.

 

[EarthDog]

ok definitively it's a motherboard for a Pentium G3258 and that's all (and was meant for that by Gigabyte.) @EarthDog, pointless discussion is pointless, let's just end this.
(and i might be right ... any 4 phase Z97 are just conceived so people can OC a G3258 by a official mean: you don't pair a 4690K/4790K with a cheap board ... you pair a cheap CPU with a cheap board )

Since this is off topic from the thread title.. I'm not going to resspond to it with details... but know that its nonsense.... if you care to know why that is nonsense, you can PM me.

/now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[Mussels]

ps: as @rtwjunkie wrote Furmark itself is already a real bad idea, but running it alongside with Prim95 ... that's even worse, you never run load intensive stress software unless you want to fry something in your rig (and with 4 phase ... it would be the motherboard before the PSU) and that said ... not even The Witcher 3, as ressource heavy as it is, would pull more than 1/3 of the load generated by a simultaneous run of those 2 software.

I run those tests specifically to check for hardware faults and for diagnosis, as the OP has. You just don't do it for fun.

 

[GreiverBlade]

I run those tests specifically to check for hardware faults and for diagnosis, as the OP has. You just don't do it for fun.

yes maybe but not both AT the same TIME (and FurMark is still a bad thing no matter what stability concern is in cause, you can use a heavy load benchmark as Heaven 4.0 who is far less dangerous than FM )