Quote Originally Posted by Oblique82 View Post
yes thats exactly what i mean

HOWEVER ,,,

then when I enter the bios it gives a red warning saying: overclock failed etc current values may be different from those represented...

and sure enough when it finally boots to windows (if i let it continue)my cpu speed is 2.8 ghz

clearly it indicates a failure to boot and its resetting to safe values......

edit it does it on 4.0 ghz too

please note my 4.2 ghz is linx and prime stable, memtest normal

edit after testing a lot seems like LLC is the culprit! (load line calibration) when set to standard it boots normally!
If it was me (I know, you're not me) I would also remount the cpu and cooler just to make sure there's no issue there........but.........."If it works don't fix it", as they say