Safe Mobo Settings?

mr13ubblezz

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Oct 8, 2013
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Hi all! I just decided to overclock my i5 2500k, and I'm wondering if I'm doing everything right.

The only settings I touched were the cpu multiplier, offset voltage and enabled load line calibration. Every other setting is whatever its default is.

My main concern is how my motherboard automatically increases the vcore with the multiplier. Would it also auto raise other voltages? If so, would it raise them enough to cause damage?

Specs:
i5 2500k
asus p8z68-v lx
 
Hi,

You should be able to set the offset voltage manually, offset voltage allows the voltage to fluctuate with the CPU frequency when you have power saving features like C1E, speed step, C states ETC... enabled.
Offset voltage won't effect other voltages, just the CPU Vcore.
 

mr13ubblezz

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Sorry, I guess my qeustion wasn't so clear.

I have my vcore right where I want it(1.3v) by offsetting -0.05v. If i would have left the offset to auto my motherboard would have rasied the vcore around 1.35v which not needed for my overclock.

What I mean is that without touching any voltage settings, only the multiplier, my vcore still rasies.

So my question is, are my non-vcore voltages(pch, pll, ect.) being auto rasied like the vcore by my motherboard?