Completely new to Overclocking

as low as you can go with still having the CPU stable. There is no benefit to loading the CPU with more voltage than necessary.

You are still using the stock cooler right?

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Dang 3523 GHz! :D :P
 
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Well if it is stable at 1.25, go into the bios and keep lowering the voltage in small increments until it no longer passes stress tests. Each chip is binned differently so some will operate at lower voltages better than others. Luck of the draw really.
 
what will happen if ive gone to low? will it not start? will it do damage?

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it has dropped to 48 now since i put pic up
 
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1. A bit too low will have an unstable CPU (crashes/BSOD) while stress testing

2. Way to low and it will not boot at all. If worst comes to worst you would have to reset the CMOS. But you would have to be significantly under volting the CPU. It would show up as unstable long before getting to this point.


Basically I am asking you to do the voltage bumping in reverse. When overclocking if the CPU is unstable, you add voltage to make it more stable. I would like you to find the lowest possible voltage for you to be stable at your current clock speed. So if your CPU passes a stress test, take the voltage down and test again for stability. Eventually you will find a voltage that if you take it down one more time the CPU will no longer be stable. (#1)

The reason that I want you to find this point is since you are overclocking on a stock cooler, you need to keep the temps down. Less voltage generally means less heat. So when you find that point you have a good low voltage baseline that you can use to start overclocking again.

I hope that helps clear it up a bit.
 
So what is the ideal temperature im gunning for then?

Got errors when i went to 1.15 and 1.175. Got a BSOD also.
Dropped multiplier by .5 (3400 ghz) Ran torture test for 40 mins picture is below

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bangbang said:
So what is the ideal temperature im gunning for then?
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There is no ideal temperature. Just remember lower temperatures are better. For my own personal overclocking, I don't want my CPU getting over 50c when stress testing. 62c can damage your CPU and I don't want to get too close to that line.

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Got errors when i went to 1.15 and 1.175. Got a BSOD also.
Dropped multiplier by .5 (3400 ghz) Ran torture test for 40 mins picture is below
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Ok. What is the lowest voltage that you need to run your CPU stably at 3.4GHz (200 X 17)?


I only asked you to lower the voltage. You do not need to lower the clock speed to get lower voltages if the temperatures are still in control. I'll try to explain that a bit better.

If you have overclocked to a certain clock speed with a certain voltage and the temperatures are too high you need to try to lower the voltage. When you find the lowest voltage that will work at that clock speed look at the temps again. If they are still too high then you lower the clock speed and re find the lowest voltage at the new clock speed. Do this until you have found a clock speed and voltage that will keep the temperatures in an acceptable range at load.

The stock cooler is not rally rated for OCing. I would heavily suggest getting a decent tower cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212+ comes to mind for under $30. That will allow you to OC a bit.
 
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There is no ideal temperature. Just remember lower temperatures are better. For my own personal overclocking, I don't want my CPU getting over 50c when stress testing. 62c can damage your CPU and I don't want to get too close to that line.
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62 C will damage your CPU? are you talking specific CPU? It's just i have never heard this before.

I myself overclocked my Q6600 to 3.4Ghz reaching a max temp 60C over 5 hour Prime. I have yet to ever reach anywhere close to that temp on a day to day basis. Mind you haven't done video encoding for a while now :P. I heard it was around 70C you want to stay away from. Did not hear 60C.
 
The limits of each CPU is different for each model. the AMD 955 and the family that it comes from has that thermal limit. Your Intel processor has a different thermal limit. I know it is higher but I am not sure what temp it is. Best to do some research on that.
 
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The limits of each CPU is different for each model. the AMD 955 and the family that it comes from has that thermal limit. Your Intel processor has a different thermal limit. I know it is higher but I am not sure what temp it is. Best to do some research on that.
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My thermal temp is 110C (never will i ever try to get close to that). I wasn't sure what you were meaning by the above comment :P my bad. I thought you meant just as a general rule.

The general rule i have learned is that you want to stay as low as possible. If reaching 50% of your thermo limit, should look into extra cooling. Same as what you learned/heard?
 
Well I would certainly never get to 110c I generally look around for max safe temps for a 24/7 OC. I have never used the 50% rule. After all, my CPU is idiling at 32c right now. so going off of that I would need better cooling already :P
 
salvage-this said:
Well I would certainly never get to 110c I generally look around for max safe temps for a 24/7 OC. I have never used the 50% rule. After all, my CPU is idiling at 32c right now. so going off of that I would need better cooling already :P
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lol... i was actually talking about load temps. Eg. mine is idling at 30C load is at 60C my limit is 110C. So technically i should lower my clockage but i believe there is some lenience in the rule :P
 
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