Still a tad confused about Power- Balanced vs high performance.

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Moon_Frost

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i7 2600k, stock multiplier, but overclocked turbo boost to 4.4Ghz

In Balanced mode, clock speeds AND Voltage drop to around 1.6Ghz and 1 V

Now whats still confusing me is that in high performance, the clock speed jumps around 2800-3800 WHILE IDLE but voltage stays the same idle voltage around 1 V, both modes pump the voltage to 1.304 at load.

So, are 24/7 high clockspeeds dangerous when idle? I thought clock speed was tied to voltage. I dont understand how the cpu is able to do almost 4 Ghz at 1 volt at idle.
 
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A difference of .05V, especially from 0.95V to 1.0V, isn't going to hurt anything, so if you want to keep the high performance preset, go for it.
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cpu speed and utilization are 2 different things. a processor can run at full speed and have no load. its not being "taxed" its not working on anything. if you were to run prime95, you would watch your voltage jump. there is no danger with keeping the processor up. if it affected the lifetime of the cpu, it would only be because there was a defect in the chip as far as I know.
 
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Just because the CPU is at 4 GHz at 1V doesn't mean that it's being used, which is why it's able to stay at 1V without crashing. You can see this type of thing in action when OCing: it is very common for an OC to be able to boot into the OS but unable to handle a stress test.

As a side note, I never OC with anything but manual settings. Settings like those tend to either use too much or too little voltage.
 
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Thanks. I just went with the turbo boost overclock method because it's easiest in my bios. Left vcore on auto and just raised it until I couldn't run prime95 bsod at 4.5ghz, but stable at 4.4 at 1.304V
 
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Side question then, what would the be if it be to go to balanced? Where I believe speed step is the function that lowers the clock to be 1600. If it doesn't matter if clocks are high when idle. I think my voltage only drops a tad lower while idle to .95 at 1.6ghz in balanced, compared to 1.0V fluctuating frequencies around 4.0 ghz in high performance while idle
 
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