Voltage for 6850K/RAM Question

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Hi all,

May start OC'ing the 6850K I have soon and was wondering about the voltage requirement.

At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.

Secondly, the RAM I have is 3200MHz but doesn't run at this speed at stock so I'm gonna bump that up to it's advertised speed and was wondering what the best settings are to help with stability. I know upping to System Agent voltage can help. Should I adjust anything else such as the VCCIO etc?

Thanks in advance,
Paul
 
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At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.
Seems reasonable to me. The stock voltages aren't really fine tuned to be as low as possible to be stable, it's not unusual to be able to bump clock speeds up a bit without increasing voltage.

TJ Hooker

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At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.
Seems reasonable to me. The stock voltages aren't really fine tuned to be as low as possible to be stable, it's not unusual to be able to bump clock speeds up a bit without increasing voltage.
 
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