Recently I have noticed that my 6700k would idle at around 50 C and sometimes be around 80-90 c under load. I was not pleased with that obviously so I went into my bios and enabled Intel Speedstep and disabled turbo boost, as I don't have a very powerful cooler and don't need any of the benefits of an overclock at the moment (though I will sometime off in the future). After changing those settings my CPU now idles at ~25 c which I am much more comfortable with. My question is, even though I have Speedstep enabled to keep my temps down, does it really help that much in keeping my temps down, than if I just left it off. I don't need to worry about battery life either as my 6700k is in a desktop. Is Speedstep really that necessary for keeping my temps down, or is it going to be a minor to insignificant temp difference and just slow down my computer in the long run?
Bringing Down CPU Temps with Intel Speedstep & Turbo Boost
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I'm not the most understanding when it comes to overclocking, so I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Are you saying I can lower the voltage of the CPU, and have it run at 4.0 GHz that it is able to run at out of the box? Would there be any problems when I need to do something CPU intensive and the processor would not be receiving enough power to continue?
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Every CPU is different, even ones of the same model.
This means some may be of great quality or some may be rubbish. Some may be able to get 4.0GHz at 1.1VCore, some might not.
Intel do not test every chip, that would take too long. So they set the voltage higher than it needs to be so that there won't be any instability.
This means you can lower the voltage that is just right for your CPU.
I'd recommend lowering the voltage in 0.025VCore increments from the BIOS. Then run Prime 95 ( http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504 ) for a minimum of 2 hours, and if there aren't any crashes or errors lower the voltage again and repeat. Prime95 is a CPU and RAM Stress tester.
This isn't the latest version of Prime95, but it's the last version to not support Intel AVX, which makes it the most realistic.
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