P67-G45 won't overclock

Hello. I have a P67-G45 that I bought several years ago. Lately, I have been trying to overclock my CPU to about 4.2 ghz or so. Being new to overclocking, I made many mistakes at first, but I think that I have the hang of it now. I set the CPU Ratio to 42 in my BIOS and set the voltage to 1.3. After tweaking a few other things according to a tutorial on an overclocking forum, I restarted my system and opened CPU-Z, RealTemp, and Prime95 to test it. However, when I run a Prime95 test, for some reason my CPU ratio will not go above 3.9. When not running Prime95, it breifly can go to 4.0 or even 4.1 sometimes before going back down to an idle 1.6 or so. What is going on? According to the control center, everything is set to 4.2 (well, 42 I guess), but the multiplier is staying at 39 maximum when running a stress test. You can read this thread over on another forum with full details of my overclocking experience thus far here :http://www.overclock.net/t/1542410/overclock-i7-2600k
And here are my specs:
Summary
      Operating System
         MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
      CPU
         Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz   91 °F
         Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
      RAM
         8.00 GB DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)
      Motherboard
         MSI P67A-G45 (MS-7673) (SOCKET 0)   83 °F
      Graphics
         E2350 (1920x1080@60Hz)
         LogMeIn Mirror Driver
         NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
      Hard Drives
         488GB Western Digital WDC WD5002AALX-00J37A0 ATA Device (SATA)   83 °F
      Optical Drives
         ASUS DRW-24B1ST a ATA Device
      Audio
         Realtek High Definition Audio

Quote from: Chike on 04-March-15, 04:33:02
It's common to suggest to upgrade BIOS. I recommend not to unless it is essential, and reading the comments on manufacturer site do no harm either.
There are two ways to OC SandyBridge and above CPUs, one is change the clock, and the other is change Turbo settings, so lets try that way.
Load optimized defaults, change vcore as before then set all cores boost ratio (in CPU Features) to 42 (Turbo must be enabled). On my board is enough if I set 4 cores to 42 but would be safer to begin with all of them at 42.
Try with OverSpeed Protection disabled, or enabled and power limits 130 for short and 120 for long.
My CPU runs 4 threads of Prime95 (v28.5 AVX) at about 100W at 4.2GHz. So maybe for testing only, disable hyper-threading.
Another thing may be insufficient vcore maybe? Not sure what safe vcore is for 2600k, so look it up before increasing.
Ok, I tried this all and still got the same results. I enabled Turbo, then changed all the values that you suggested with the ratio at 42 and vcore at 1.3. When running 8 test threads in prime95 I still only get up to 3.9. I tried again, enabling enhanced turbo, but it didn't change anything. The only thing that I did not try was disabling overspeed protection, and I'll try that now, but if it doesn't, what is going on?

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Quote from: Chike on 04-March-15, 04:33:02
It's common to suggest to upgrade BIOS. I recommend not to unless it is essential, and reading the comments on manufacturer site do no harm either.
There are two ways to OC SandyBridge and above CPUs, one is change the clock, and the other is change Turbo settings, so lets try that way.
Load optimized defaults, change vcore as before then set all cores boost ratio (in CPU Features) to 42 (Turbo must be enabled). On my board is enough if I set 4 cores to 42 but would be safer to begin with all of them at 42.
Try with OverSpeed Protection disabled, or enabled and power limits 130 for short and 120 for long.
My CPU runs 4 threads of Prime95 (v28.5 AVX) at about 100W at 4.2GHz. So maybe for testing only, disable hyper-threading.
Another thing may be insufficient vcore maybe? Not sure what safe vcore is for 2600k, so look it up before increasing.
Ok, I tried this all and still got the same results. I enabled Turbo, then changed all the values that you suggested with the ratio at 42 and vcore at 1.3. When running 8 test threads in prime95 I still only get up to 3.9. I tried again, enabling enhanced turbo, but it didn't change anything. The only thing that I did not try was disabling overspeed protection, and I'll try that now, but if it doesn't, what is going on?

MSI P67 G45 (B3)

Hello. I am using MSI p67-g45 board for almost 3 weeks.
intel 2500k cpu
ripjaws 4gb ddr3 1600ram
2x sapphire vapor-x HD5850's crossfired
2x samsung f4 raid0
no problems so far but one. tmpin #1 (PCH) gets crazy hot. even with stock cpu timings and settings without any extra stress, it reaches 85-90degrees and its not misreading its for real, you feel it when you touch or you can actually see how it affects the first card on crossfire. I have a case with very good airflow. in fact motherboard PCH is the only component breaks 60 degrees celcius in whole system. graphic cards only peaks to 58 while playing bc2, cpu stays max 55, airflow is great but when I check HWmonitor temps, I can see PCH (TMPIN#1) is 90 or 100 c... IF I overclock the crossfired 5850's a little, it reaches 110-120 degrees celcius.. so, my concern: is this a bad mobo which I should return? or all p67 g45 is the same?
another member asked a question like this and some admin said "re apply tim".. well I dont wanna break its guarantee or just break it. Its obvious that I am not the only one having this issue. This board has temp issues or PCH probe reads crazy temps.. which is true and what should I do please make this clear for me. I dont want to return it since its flawless with overclocking and all other good stuff. but this temp is a no-go. I dont want something 100c in the case while all other components are 40-50c. Thanks for reading.

so you are saying its completely normal? im sure its nothing like 100c or 120c as you said. probably misreading. but the gfx card on top (first one of the crossfire cards) is almost 15 degrees celcius hotter then the bottom card most of the time. plus, top card uses better-bigger-heavy cooling. at least I can guess is the PCH heating up the first card since its right next to it. I mean second card is smaller 5850 Xtreme version which is cheaper too. I used them before in a P45 rig with c2duo system. temps never reached 50c at first card while idling. so the possible scenario is: gfx heating up PCH and PCH heating up gfx and I cant do anything like moving the card to second slot cuz im already using bot of them at crossfire. while gfx covering the PCH I cant place a fan on it too.
I've tested the temps in some scenarios. First, I only stressed CPU with prime and while cpu kept 55c max (stock timings), PCH gone to 67c in 1 hour maximum heat torture test. I can say HWmonitor is reading faulty PCH temp but not. Cuz when I touch it, its really hot. nothing like 40 or 50c, its hot as hell and guess what, GPU1 temp never go down from 55 at idle. second card was 35-38c tops. there were no load on both cards since they were idling at windows.
Second thing, I stressed CPU with prime then I stressed both GPU's with furmark. TMPIN#1 went crazy like 90c's cuz the first video card was at 80c while second one kept it 70. I will make another test. I will replace the better cooled card with 5850@ second slot, which has worse cooling. and make these test all again. I let you know what happened with screenshots and make my descision about rma the board or not. at least users having the same issues like me can get an idea. thx for reading

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Quote from: Nichrome on 07-September-14, 04:22:25
GSkill oh dear.
Use 1 RAM stick with GPUs of your choice. I am not just sure if 295X2 should be mixed with 290x.
About GSkill: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=178019.msg1286022#msg1286022 worth reading before frustrating
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hello
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   Max efficiency ratio   12x
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   Ratio 2 cores      33x
   Ratio 3 cores      32x
   Ratio 4 cores      32x
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MOVED: P67A-G45 Windows 8 Overclock Speedstep Issues

This topic has been moved to Overclocking, Undervolting.
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Quote from: celltech on 24-October-12, 21:13:49
So my bad...there is an Intel Turbo Mode setting under the OC tab. It was enabled and I tried to disable it. No change...
So then I started turning off C1E and C-State stuff. That only made it worse. According to CPU-Z the CPU was getting full voltage all the time. At least with C1E/C-States enabled the voltages will back off with no load on the CPU.
The Win 8 Task Manager is very strange. It is showing the frequency bouncing around 3.3-4.2 while CPU-Z shows it hard locked at 4.2 I am not sure what the Task Manager is using for its calculations. But even the Task Manager hard locked at 4.2 with everything disabled.
I have the same board (P67A-G45) and I am having the same problem. When I set the multiplier in the BIOS, the CPU will bounce between 3.3GHz and whatever I set the multiplier to. I am running the V1.18 BIOS. With Windows 7, I could set the multiplier to whatever I wanted, enable C-States, and the CPU would throttle down to 16x without any issue or any interaction from me.
You can use ThrottleStop to check the multiplier more accurately then CPU-Z. Also in ThrottleStop, you can click "Set Multiplier" -> "Power Saver" -> "Turn On" and the CPU will run like a champ at 16x multiplier, so its definitely possible. This 16x get reported in CPU-Z and in the Windows Task Manager as well. Once you disable Power Saver, its back to 33x + multiplier land.
I hope a solution to this will be found, seems really silly to install a new OS and have CPU multiplier issues...

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Quote from: XrBob on 29-December-13, 14:23:50
1. The computer runs fine through the onboard video, I'm using it right now to type this. Is it possible that the computer runs fine even with a bent pin? Is it easy to tell if I have a bent pin?
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Quote from: XrBob on 29-December-13, 14:23:50
3. Does that mean having the motherboard just hanging outside the case?
put the board on a piece of plain cardboard or wood (to prevent shorting) on a table and plug up the power and so on and see if it posts there (most builders do that before they put it in a case or place it on the motherboard box itself)!

870-G45 won't post

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Alrighty, appreciate the info; gonna back down to 4.4Ghz as I can maintain stability with 1.275 vcore in bios = 1.26 in windows = 1.24 under load resulting in hottest core never exceeding 70...was really hoping for 4.7-5.0Ghz overclock when most everyone who reviewed this chip in the early days was claiming such great overclocks with such low voltage. But I'll chalk that up to either misinformation or non stability checked overclocks, I guess I'm old school; cause if it can't hold up to a minimum 24hr pass of Prime 95 small fft's it isn't stable in my book. Might consider delidding it in a year or so once the new wears off, I had my i7 920 for about that long before I lapped it into a mirror shine lol. So based on my new information 3770k's on average overclock between 4.4-4.6Ghz and can require up to 1.4 vcore and higher past 4.6Ghz which is where you start to really become thermally limited on liquid as the Ivy Bridge's 22nm technology puts the cores to closely together in combination with intel's cheap ass thermal compound solution. Maximum recommended voltage for 24/7 shouldn't exceed 1.4 vcore without some kick ass cooling or a combination of delidded processor and kick ass cooling cause ideally you want your cores mid 70's and below...that about sum it all up?

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Any idea of when we'll see a new BIOS? Are any betas available? I'd like to see if this is a BIOS problem before RMAing it.
Thanks.

Quote from: HU16E on 14-January-11, 16:52:36
Which BIOS do you now have? Current official is V1.5. It would possibly help to have a full listing of all the systems components. Work with the one RAM stick initially in the primary dimm slot, blue closest to CPU. Get the OS loaded, drivers, etc., then add the second stick in the other blue dimm slot later. I have a feeling the RAM is setting itself up wrong. Might try the manual settings of 1333 9 9 9 24 @ 1.50V's.
The BIOS was 1.5 out of the box but it's my understanding from another thread that there have been a slew of beta BIOSs released. I'm not going to load the OS until I get this straightened out. Also, both sticks would have the same settings with one stick or two installed. I fiddled with voltage, timings, etc but it still wouldn't work when I popped in the second stick. LIke I said, after every attempt with two sticks I have to clear CMOS or it won't work again with one stick. I'm hoping to try a newer BIOS before spending more hours on this, one setting at a time.
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P67A-G45 Windows 8 Overclock Speedstep Issues

I just upgraded my setup from Windows 7 to 8. I have my i5-2500K overclocked to 4.2GHz. In Win 7 I could see Speedstep/EIST working fine and it would throttle down to 1.6GHz when things were not busy.
Now with Win 8 it stays at 4.2 no matter what. The multiplier never seems to drop down. If I set it back to the normal 33 things are fine. If I start it at 33 and then use MSI Control Center to raise the multi it works fine. But if I boot it with the CPU already at 42 it just stays at max speed.
I am at all the latest BIOS and software versions.
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Quote from: celltech on 24-October-12, 21:13:49
So my bad...there is an Intel Turbo Mode setting under the OC tab. It was enabled and I tried to disable it. No change...
So then I started turning off C1E and C-State stuff. That only made it worse. According to CPU-Z the CPU was getting full voltage all the time. At least with C1E/C-States enabled the voltages will back off with no load on the CPU.
The Win 8 Task Manager is very strange. It is showing the frequency bouncing around 3.3-4.2 while CPU-Z shows it hard locked at 4.2 I am not sure what the Task Manager is using for its calculations. But even the Task Manager hard locked at 4.2 with everything disabled.
I have the same board (P67A-G45) and I am having the same problem. When I set the multiplier in the BIOS, the CPU will bounce between 3.3GHz and whatever I set the multiplier to. I am running the V1.18 BIOS. With Windows 7, I could set the multiplier to whatever I wanted, enable C-States, and the CPU would throttle down to 16x without any issue or any interaction from me.
You can use ThrottleStop to check the multiplier more accurately then CPU-Z. Also in ThrottleStop, you can click "Set Multiplier" -> "Power Saver" -> "Turn On" and the CPU will run like a champ at 16x multiplier, so its definitely possible. This 16x get reported in CPU-Z and in the Windows Task Manager as well. Once you disable Power Saver, its back to 33x + multiplier land.
I hope a solution to this will be found, seems really silly to install a new OS and have CPU multiplier issues...

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CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 455 Rana 3.3 Ghz Socket AM3
RAM: G.Skill Sniper Series 2x4GB DDR3 1866, Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR
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Video Card (operational): XFX 7600 GT
System HD: Runcore 64GB Sata II SSD
Optical Drive: LITE-ON SATA DVD-RW drive
I just finished building a new upgrade build into an existing case with an existing PSU and hard drives/optical drive. Originally the system wouldn't power on at all, which I traced to the new video card (something to do with grounding or an inadequate power supply maybe?), but in any case I got past that for the moment with my old video card. The system will power on and get to the BIOS screen. I can enter the BIOS and everything looks fine: all my drives are detected, the RAM is present, the CPU looks correct. However, when I go to actually load an operating system, it never loads. After the BIOS screen I just get a blank screen with a white blinking cursor in the upper-left corner, and this never goes away (I've tried leaving it for 10 minutes or more).
Originally I was trying to boot from the mentioned SSD which has both Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 64-bit partitions installed with GRUB2 to load them. This didn't load, so I tried an Ubuntu 11.04 live CD in my DVD-ROM drive. That didn't work, so I tried the same CD in an external USB CD-ROM drive in case it was a problem with the SATA controller/connectors. Still the same behavior. So I tried a memtest86+ CD in both drives. Still the same behavior. For each of the tests after the first I explicitly opened the boot menu with F11 at the BIOS screen and selected the device I wanted to try.
At this point I've already tried exchanging the memory I had originally bought with the memory I listed above, since the old memory I realized after I bought it was labelled as "Intel i5/i7 compatible" and the new memory is on the MSI support list for this motherboard model. Any thoughts on where to go next? My next thought was to RMA the motherboard but I feel like I'm flying blind here. I've never see a new build get stuck at this point in the boot process.

OK posting from Ubuntu on my now-working build!!
So, after two weeks of messing around with the CPU, RAM, video card, etc., I finally have the thought that the one thing I haven't tried yet is the old SATA expansion PCI card that I put in early on at the bottom of the motherboard underneath the video card (out of direct sight, out of mind apparently), for when I try to connect all 7 of my SATA devices. I tried pulling that out - presto, it boots. Retried a couple of times for proof, keeps booting correctly. It can even load memtest86+ off a CD. Put the PCI card back in - still boots. Reconnected the sata drive - no boot. Remembered that this particular PCI card has two SATA ports and one is for RAID of some kind, tried the other port - now it boots. The drive connected to the card is also detected by the OS.
In conclusion, it was something entirely different from what I was working on, as it usually is.
I'm going to get to work connecting everything back up, getting the new video card working, etc. I suspect I'll be back at least to read when I try to get my memory working at 1866 (different forum I know). Thanks to those who responded for the pointers.

Z68MA-G45 won't boot Windows7

CPU: Intel Core i3-2130 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz 2 x 256KB L2 Cache
Mobo: MSI|Z68MA-G45 (B3) Z68 LGA1155 R BIOS v17.0
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (x2 => 4GB)
Video: Z68 chipset IGP
HDD's: Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
DVD: LG USB 2.0 external DVD/CD R-W combo drive
OS: Win 7 Pro SP1 32bit
PSU: 300W
The short summary is:
New system build. Powers up just fine.
Windows install runs to completion, but upon initial boot, gets to windows startup page indicating "Setup is updating Registry Settings".. then poof.. reboot.
Testing:
Verified RAM is good (via memory test from BIOS, windows installer and another computer RAM swap).
SSD drive appears to be fine.
identified in BIOS
windows setup can partition/format and REpartition/REformat without error
same diff with a single Seagate Barracuda drive in system
IDE or AHIC settings make no diff
Reset CMOS
Tried both DVI and VGA video channels.. same diff.
The only thing I haven't done is the BIOS upgrade.
Mobo came with v17.0.. v17.2 is available n' looks like it'll get updates for CPU and Memory.
It just seems like everything is pretty current n' shouldn't need to do.
Smacks of a driver problem to me. Maybe for the on board video controller.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.

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Smacks of a driver problem to me. Maybe for the on board video controller. It's gotta be a driver or problems with the on board graphics. As long as you're OK with DOS, it's a breeze. I'll give MSI support a chance to resolve this.. then I RMA this evil beast.
Test with only a RAM stick in the blue primary dimm slot. I would suspect a 300W PSU as possibly not providing enough system power. If you have a 'spinner' HDD to test with, I would recommend to try with one of those too. In the future, use the forum's USB Flashing Tool. Safest flashing method on the planet.
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I'll give MSI support a chance to resolve this..
Official MSI, or the user to user forum? Here's how to contact MSI Tech Support; http://support.msi.com/

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