Static Voltage - Bad or Okay?

muellerdillon · Feb 20, 2014

I am new to over clocking and my biggest concern is voltage, is a static unadaptive voltage bad for a CPU. Such as putting 1.2v to get 4.4 stable but still at 1.2v when idling at 800mhz. So is the 1.2v bad for 24/7?

Note: I've tried using offsets and in order to get stable it wants to use too much voltage, I just don't want to cook my CPU having at 1.2v all the time.

Davil · Feb 20, 2014

No it's not, that's the way it used to be. Adaptive is just another way to save power and try to reduce temps on the cpu. But if you're not worried about temperatures that much or saving a few watts it's fine. I leave mine on manual because some software does not send the right instructions to make adaptive mode work like it's supposed to.

muellerdillon · Feb 20, 2014

Davil :

What processor do you have and how much voltage does it run daily? And after more research I found that some programs like benchmarks use avx instructions, which has well supports, but at a cost of upping the voltage 0.1 which makes 1.2v into 1.3v instead, correct? So if I wanted offsets I would need to compensate for the extra vcore added for particular programs such as aida64?

Davil · Feb 20, 2014

muellerdillon :

I have a 4770k I also did the same with a 960, a 2600k and a 3770k. My current voltage on my 4770k during normal use is 1.27v @ 4.5ghz. And yes that is correct, but the problem with trying to do the offsets is that it won't work for most applications. So to answer your question again, it's not bad, it's just much easier and more stable than adaptive. If you really want to put the time and effort into it it will lower the stress on your cpu a bit, you just have to be careful not to run things like prime95 or other benchmarking software.

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