9900K overclocking

[superjack65]

I have to overclocked a CPU to 5200MHZ for a job. I used a 9900K and put up 2x 360mm custom water cooling for the job giving it a temp of 44C at rest. When I run OCCT I keep on encountering "A clock interrupt not received..." I have the voltage all the way up to 1.9V and it stills pops up this BSOD, 1.95V above fries the CPU. What do I do.

Not sure if this is pertinent, but the other part of the build is a 2070S, 2 16GB 3200MHZ ram, and a 650W PSU, ASRock Z390 Extreme 4.

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I think I should explain something about this game. Yes the Clock Interrupt Error blue screen does mean that your CPU doesn't have enough voltage. But I think you have a DUD 9900K that will never be stable at the clocks you overclocked it to or it would want so much voltage to be stable that it will sustain damage / you can't do it.

What I mean by this is: All CPU's in this game are unique. You could go to the store in career mode (or inventory in free build mode) and get 1000 x 9900K's. Every single one of those 1000 processors will want a different voltage to be stable at 5200 Mhz. You might find one that could do 5200 Mhz at it's default voltage without increasing the voltage. You might could find one that would do 5200 Mhz with only 1.7 volts. Or you may go through all 1000 x 9900K's and none of them will do 5200 Mhz without causing a voltage blue screen even up to 1.9 volts. It is all completely random with this game.

Every time you either get a processor from the store in career mode or pull one out of inventory in free build mode the game randomizes the processor as to: What voltage it will need for a specific clock speed. What temperatures it will run at. How much power it will use at a given clock speed.

This is part of the game. The is no way to control this behavior in the default game either. You probably just need to try and get another 9900K and hope you get lucky that you can find one that will do 5200 Mhz for that job with only 1.8v or 1.9v and not blue screen, not crash, and not thermal throttle.

Also: When we get a job generated from an email and the customer's computer arrives for us to work on their processor that arrives in their computer is also randomized just like I described above too. It is entirely possible (and actually fairly common) for a customer to ask us to overclock their computer and CPU in the email and then the game will give us their computer for that job with a CPU that actually can not reach their requested overclock without either thermal throttling or crashing or blue screening.

Not all overclock jobs are always possible to be completed.

[superjack65]

Thank you so much!!!