Render from AE or PR while overclocked throws CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

Question

I keep my PC OC'ed at a stable 4.7GHZ and RAM at 3200, and that's where I like to leave it.

Unfortunately, when rendering out of Premiere or After effects CC2018, I get a BSOD (CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT) about a quarter of the way into my renders. It only happens with Adobe products. It seems to happen when rendering with Ae, Pr, or Adobe Media Encoder.

At the moment I've been returning my OC back to non-OC defaults to get Adobe products to not hard crash during render. Due to a quirk in my build/mobo, switching from OC to non-OC and back again isn't as easy as switching profiles in the BIOS, so I'd rather leave my system OC'ed to its fastest stable levels.

Why does Adobe suite not play nice with an overclock during render? Is there anything I can do about it, either in Adobe products or in Windows 10?

Intel Skylake 6700k @ 4.7 oce'd (4 base)

64GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200 oc'ed (2300 base)

MSI nvidia 1080 seahawk

MSI Z170A titanium mobo

EVGA 1000W Platinum PSU

Samsung SSD 950 Pro M.2

jackhalfaprayer · Accepted Answer

Think I found the answer-- It's not the overclock. I'd been keeping Bitsum Park Control in Highest Performance mode, which disabled Freq scaling DC. I tried switching to the Windows 10 "High Performance" power setting, closed Park Control, and disabled Realtime Protection AntiVirus. Somewhere in there was the bug; I am no longer getting CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSODs. After Effects appears to be rendering properly and playing nice with my overclock.

Mylenium · Answer

This stuff eludes control of software that high up in the stack. If at all, the motherboard vendor will have to fix it in their drivers and the associated microcode patches.Mylenium

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