hello, I'm relatively new to this forum and to OC, so I have a few doubts.
I recently bought a new mobo: Asus z270 TUF Mark 1, and paired with my i7 6700k. While playing/rendering my temps got too high up to 90º. I did some research in the internet and found that some mobo manufacturers (Asus in my case) ussualy overvoltage the cpu vcore to be safe (or something like that).
So i did some more research and finally decided to tweak my CPU vcore manually. Turns out that @ stock 4.0-4.2 Ghz Turbo, I can run my CPU with vcore @ 1.17v. I stresses tested it with Aida64 FPU and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility 1 hour each and nothing happened, I even got to see a movie on the PC while testing and all OK, temps never got higher than 68º-70º.
I put the vcore on Adaptive mode on the bios, setting it to the stable 1.17v I tested and the offset to minimum 0.001. I also activated XMP to get my RAM to run at 3200Mhz. HWMonitor readings show my CPU vcore at max 1.184v under stress, which is a little higher than the 1.17v, but all in all my PC never crashed. So far so good.
Later I decided to OC the cpu to 4.5 Sync all Cores (I tried Asus's own EZTuning but it was spiking the voltage to 1.44 and temps up to 100º). So I tuned manually the core ratio to 45, and the vcore to 1.22v. All stable, stress test passed after 2 hours.
However Manual mode set my CPU voltage to 1.22v 24/7 even when I leave the PC idle, something I don't like. I had tu put it in Offset Mode (-) with an offset of 0.13v (Adaptive mode always crashed and any other lower value on offset would spike my vcore and temps to 1.44 @ 100º). Now HWmonitor shows my CPU running @ 4.5 1.21v-1.23v with maximum temps of 78º. Been 2 days since I did this. So far so good too.
In both cases, I only disabled Asus Multicore Enhacement, enabled EPU power saving, and tweaked core ratio and vcore only, all other settings in bios were left in default Auto.
My question is: am I OK with this OC settings? should I change anything?. I'd like to hear (read?) some more experienced opinions.
Thank you all in advance
My main rig components are
i7 6700k @ 4.5 cooled with Corsair H100i GTX
Asus TUF Z270 Mark 1
16GB Corsair @ 3200
Sapphire R9 390
I recently bought a new mobo: Asus z270 TUF Mark 1, and paired with my i7 6700k. While playing/rendering my temps got too high up to 90º. I did some research in the internet and found that some mobo manufacturers (Asus in my case) ussualy overvoltage the cpu vcore to be safe (or something like that).
So i did some more research and finally decided to tweak my CPU vcore manually. Turns out that @ stock 4.0-4.2 Ghz Turbo, I can run my CPU with vcore @ 1.17v. I stresses tested it with Aida64 FPU and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility 1 hour each and nothing happened, I even got to see a movie on the PC while testing and all OK, temps never got higher than 68º-70º.
I put the vcore on Adaptive mode on the bios, setting it to the stable 1.17v I tested and the offset to minimum 0.001. I also activated XMP to get my RAM to run at 3200Mhz. HWMonitor readings show my CPU vcore at max 1.184v under stress, which is a little higher than the 1.17v, but all in all my PC never crashed. So far so good.
Later I decided to OC the cpu to 4.5 Sync all Cores (I tried Asus's own EZTuning but it was spiking the voltage to 1.44 and temps up to 100º). So I tuned manually the core ratio to 45, and the vcore to 1.22v. All stable, stress test passed after 2 hours.
However Manual mode set my CPU voltage to 1.22v 24/7 even when I leave the PC idle, something I don't like. I had tu put it in Offset Mode (-) with an offset of 0.13v (Adaptive mode always crashed and any other lower value on offset would spike my vcore and temps to 1.44 @ 100º). Now HWmonitor shows my CPU running @ 4.5 1.21v-1.23v with maximum temps of 78º. Been 2 days since I did this. So far so good too.
In both cases, I only disabled Asus Multicore Enhacement, enabled EPU power saving, and tweaked core ratio and vcore only, all other settings in bios were left in default Auto.
My question is: am I OK with this OC settings? should I change anything?. I'd like to hear (read?) some more experienced opinions.
Thank you all in advance
My main rig components are
i7 6700k @ 4.5 cooled with Corsair H100i GTX
Asus TUF Z270 Mark 1
16GB Corsair @ 3200
Sapphire R9 390
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