Tinkickef Posted July 31, 2019 Posted July 31, 2019 (edited) Tried various ways to get it up to 5.0GHz and eventually tried the official gigabyte version. Upped the Clock ratio to 50, ran through every other step, volts up to 1.3 and in every case, when saving the profile it shows [AUTO] - [AUTO] as the change. Clearly it didn't stick. XMP profile 1 and every other setting has stuck. Any ideas what is going wrong?. I'm starting to think someone put a 9900 in a 9900k box, but Task Manager is showing it as a 9900k @ 3.6GHz but running at around 4.8GHz. Edited July 31, 2019 by Tinkickef System spec: i9 9900K, Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra motherboard, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 RAM, Corsair M.2 NVMe 1Tb Boot SSD. Seagate 1Tb Hybrid mass storage SSD. ASUS RTX2080TI Dual OC, Thermaltake Flo Riing 360mm water pumper, EVGA 850G3 PSU. HP Reverb, TM Warthog, Crosswind pedals, Buttkicker Gamer 2.
BitMaster Posted July 31, 2019 Posted July 31, 2019 I would reset the Bios a couple times, take battery out too and start over. Since I have no Gigabyte board myself I cannot give you any advice on how to work with it. In general, enable XMP and MCE first and boot. This should yield some more MHz through MCE and you should see your RAM at XMP values. If that wont happen, ask someone with a Gigabyte board. If that works, go back to Bios, lock all cores to the same frequency, dial in "50" as the master multiplier and then up the volts to 1.35 to start with. 1.3 could be too low for some dies but 1.35 wont hurt to begin with. The complicated part is SVID and other presets Gigabyte might offer and enable by default when you enable XMP. Best would be to google it and read a few of those How-To's for Gigabyte boards. I would set Volts to full manual and SVID to OFF to begin with. Set any performance options to "performance" or "Overclock" or whatever it is called on your board. That usually affects the full burst duration, ampere settings, phase controls etc... Trial and error Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
Waxer Posted July 31, 2019 Posted July 31, 2019 I am using an EVGA board myself and I am not familiar with Gigabyte BIOS, but I will try to help. Have a good look through the BIOS settings on the CPU page and make sure you understand what is set to auto and what is set to manual. Make sure anything to do with CPU multipliers is set to manual. Also make sure that you don't have any Windows overclocking software running which could be overriding the settings you made in BIOS. Also make sure that Windows power saving settings are set to "Performance" and off "Balanced" or "Energy Saving" whatever it is called. If still no joy, consider asking your question on the Overclock.net forum. There are a lot of great people on there with specific knowledge of Gigabyte BIOS who will be able to help you. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Secoda Posted July 31, 2019 Posted July 31, 2019 I have an ASUS Z390 OC. Maybe this will help. GIGABYTE Z390 9th Gen OC Guide & VRM Thermal Test https://www.tweaktown.com/guides/8812/gigabyte-z390-9th-gen-oc-guide-vrm-thermal-test/index.html I-7 8700K 5 Ghz OC, Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4-3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming, ASUS RTX2080 8GB OC, NVMe PCIe M.2 1 TB SSD, EVO 1TB SSD, WD 1TB HD, WD Black 2 TB HD image, Corsair H150i Pro Cooler, HOTAS 16000FCS, Corsair Crystal 570X RGB case, Corsair RM750x Gold PSU, Razer Cynosa Chroma RGB keyboard, Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Mouse, Samsung QLED 4K 82" :) TV/monitor. HP Reverb. Lenovo Explorer. IRL Private Pilot.
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