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On topic, I want to try and clarify. So right now when using 3D mark testing and even gaming, the overclock holds true no problem; however when using CPU-Z's benchmark is when the issue arises? As stupid as this sounds, I have ran into this issue in the past with CPU-Z and it was literally due to my RAM. On the Z97-AR motherboard I was utilizing dual channel for RAM with 4 sticks in use. When I OC'ed my CPU it would lock up on CPU-Z. Decided to remove one RAM stick and try again, no lock up. Removed one more RAM stick, no lock up. Removed one more RAM, only keeping one in and no lock up. Seemed to be the dual channel causing the issue. You can give that a try and see if it fixes anything but I believe my situation was an oddball.

Going back to your mention of guides; guides are useful and all for overclocking, but you need to take things at your own pace. Not every CPU is going to be the same. Someone can have an i5-4960k that can be OC'ed to 5.1 GHz while someone could have one that can't even hit 3.7 GHz. Typically when I overclock both my CPU and GPU I go through a tedious process. For CPU, each core I amp up by 10 MHz and when I need to adjust voltage, it's by 0.005 until everything is stable. For GPU I amp up the clock speed by 15 MHz and the memory clock by 20-25 MHz and adjust the voltage very rarely, however power target is and always will be at it's max. I've made a few mistakes in the past with both my CPU and GPU with jumping the voltage a little too high and I would run into issues you have; however I have also destroyed hardware on 2 occasions, one on purpose the other I don't know what happened. OC'ed a Intel Pentium G3258 to 4.7 GHz and it was stable for the most part, but I wanted to see how far a budget CPU could be pushed, 4.8 GHz would lock up when gaming and 4.9 GHz wouldn't even make it past posting, after resetting it in BIOS, even using a web browser would cause the PC to freeze until I replaced the CPU. My first 970 STRIX I did an OC from online and it completely botched the GPU that was so perfect before hand, think I "killed" the thermal compound as even on idle I was hitting 61c and my FPS was tanking so damn hard in games.

Anyways, take things slow with your overclocking, like I said, guides are helpful but not everyone's hardware is the same. Do you have to be tedious like I do; no. However your voltage seems a little too big of a jump at once. I'm just assuming that your stock voltage should have been somewhere around 1.040-1.060, I would have maybe tried working up to around 1.220 at first instead of instantly jumping to 1.250. I can't really help too much with your CPU-Z issue as the only time I have had an issue with it, was due to my RAM and I have not had an issue with any overclocking unless I make a careless mistake. I would consider the RAM solution that worked for me, if not try lowering your clock speed a little bit and maybe even your voltage a little bit to see if that settles anything with your CPU-Z issue.

Also maybe post your full sheet of hardware to further help if anything may be causing a lock up like this; PSU would be the first thing that comes to mind.

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On topic, I want to try and clarify. So right now when using 3D mark testing and even gaming, the overclock holds true no problem; however when using CPU-Z's benchmark is when the issue arises? As stupid as this sounds, I have ran into this issue in the past with CPU-Z and it was literally due to my RAM. On the Z97-AR motherboard I was utilizing dual channel for RAM with 4 sticks in use. When I OC'ed my CPU it would lock up on CPU-Z. Decided to remove one RAM stick and try again, no lock up. Removed one more RAM stick, no lock up. Removed one more RAM, only keeping one in and no lock up. Seemed to be the dual channel causing the issue. You can give that a try and see if it fixes anything but I believe my situation was an oddball.

Going back to your mention of guides; guides are useful and all for overclocking, but you need to take things at your own pace. Not every CPU is going to be the same. Someone can have an i5-4960k that can be OC'ed to 5.1 GHz while someone could have one that can't even hit 3.7 GHz. Typically when I overclock both my CPU and GPU I go through a tedious process. For CPU, each core I amp up by 10 MHz and when I need to adjust voltage, it's by 0.005 until everything is stable. For GPU I amp up the clock speed by 15 MHz and the memory clock by 20-25 MHz and adjust the voltage very rarely, however power target is and always will be at it's max. I've made a few mistakes in the past with both my CPU and GPU with jumping the voltage a little too high and I would run into issues you have; however I have also destroyed hardware on 2 occasions, one on purpose the other I don't know what happened. OC'ed a Intel Pentium G3258 to 4.7 GHz and it was stable for the most part, but I wanted to see how far a budget CPU could be pushed, 4.8 GHz would lock up when gaming and 4.9 GHz wouldn't even make it past posting, after resetting it in BIOS, even using a web browser would cause the PC to freeze until I replaced the CPU. My first 970 STRIX I did an OC from online and it completely botched the GPU that was so perfect before hand, think I "killed" the thermal compound as even on idle I was hitting 61c and my FPS was tanking so damn hard in games.

Anyways, take things slow with your overclocking, like I said, guides are helpful but not everyone's hardware is the same. Do you have to be tedious like I do; no. However your voltage seems a little too big of a jump at once. I'm just assuming that your stock voltage should have been somewhere around 1.040-1.060, I would have maybe tried working up to around 1.220 at first instead of instantly jumping to 1.250. I can't really help too much with your CPU-Z issue as the only time I have had an issue with it, was due to my RAM and I have not had an issue with any overclocking unless I make a careless mistake. I would consider the RAM solution that worked for me, if not try lowering your clock speed a little bit and maybe even your voltage a little bit to see if that settles anything with your CPU-Z issue.

Also maybe post your full sheet of hardware to further help if anything may be causing a lock up like this; PSU would be the first thing that comes to mind.

my stock cpu voltage was 1.115 i started out with 1.200 flat at 4.2ghz(42 core ratio). And yes it was just CPU-Z i used furmark and several other benchmarks/stress tests and my pc ran just fine. The highest i reached with temperatures id say were decent(i prefer nothing over 60c if possible and im air cooling everything) was like 4.5ghz and it was still at 69c. I gamed on 4.3ghz for an hour and i didnt exactly see a difference in my performance i played witcher 3. Now i have a gtx 1070 so its maxed out at 1920x1080 and yeah didnt see a huge difference. So out of my expierence ive learned that overclocking isnt for me at the time.