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Hey everyone, i have a rather basic understanding of overclocking, and stress testing so let me just start with that. To start off. I run a 750 power supply MSI Gaming pro carbon 270z i7 7700k MSI GTX 1080 TI Gskill 32gigs @2117 Water cooler blah blah blah. When i run a stress test on Memory @ Stock Specs (for everything including GPU) everything passes and nothings unstable. MSI has this nifty "Gaming mode" in its BIOS which Clocks my CPU 4.8 Max and my RAM @2800 (which is the advertised speed). Once i run a stress test on the Memory in said Gaming mode i get "hardware fail" from ADIA64. This is rather quickly after starting the test, 10 seconds top. once i push everything back to stock and reboot everything runs stable which makes me believe my RAM isnt "bad". Now i can't for the life of my figure out if i have "bad ram" or i don't have the correct voltage.. or... i can post logs if needed not sure on what information is needed here. Computer skills: New overclocker Any help would be amazing

I built my PC a couple days ago. I have: i5 4690k (cm hyper 212 evo cooled) GTX 970 (reference card) 8gb ram I have been gaming on it pretty heavily since I've had it. I feel like I can get more out of the CPU because I did buy an MSI Z97-G45 Motherboard and a 4690k. So I overclocked it to about 4.4ghz with 1.2v I've been running the stress test with aida64 trial and my temps are a bit confusing to me. So Idle I have around High 30's to Low 40's (degrees Celsius) But, with the stress test being running for about 17 minutes now i'm getting Mid to high 60's (66-69) It rarely hits 70 Oh and I don't think my fans are running too fast So are these normal temps? How long should I keep this test going? And should I keep it overclocked? Thanks