noahjames017 :
I am a bit confused on the best way to use LLC. From my understanding it seems like the higher level of LLC(less vdroop) the lower i can put the voltage compared to if i run a lower level of LLC. Is this accurate? When using level 6 it appears that my voltage will be slightly higher than what it manually set and when using level 5 it is slightly lower. I'm not completely sure what the best way to use it is. Sorry if this doesnt make sense, I am not very informed when it comes to overclocking.
I honestly just kept mine at default but the point of it is so when you are overclocking you provide a positive voltage buffer to the cpu as it drops from 100% load.
A lot of people swear by just setting a straight manual vcore value when overclocking. If you do that, you're cpu will receive that voltage no matter what the cpu load is. If you set your vcore to 1.3v, your cpu will always be operating at 1.3vcore (1%, or 100% cpu usage).
Now let's say you don't want your cpu to get that voltage all the time (you want the voltage to drop when the cpu isn't being used much), you're going to probably use one of the following:
- a voltage offset
- adaptive voltage
- default (A lot of motherboards "default" power settings will see your OC frequency and guess at the needed voltage at max/min loads. Usually it's over-volted by a good amount).
- a mix of these
Taking adaptive voltage settings as an example, you can set what you want the "Max" vcore to be in your bios, which is what your mobo will supply at 100% load to the cpu. Once the load goes down, your motherboard will "guess" at how much power it needs to supply. What if it's not enough to keep your cpu running at your OCed frequency? That's where LLC comes in, it raises that min voltage so you can still have an adaptive vcore but not crash due to vdroop.
The way I would do it is by turning it off (if it is off by default), doing a regular overclocking setup. Raise your multiplier until your stability tests fail, and then you could try bumping up the LLC a bit to see if it makes it stable. Chances are if your cpu blue-screens
during the stress test, it probably won't help. But let's say you run prime 95 for an hour error free and as soon as you hit the stop button it blue-screens. In that case, it could be beneficial to try.
The thing is you have to monitor the vcore pretty carefully though, especially if you fooled around with the vcore and set it to something above default. I tried messing with it on my asrock board and at one setting (not the max) hwmonitor was reporting the mobo sending like 1.4v to my cpu under load when I had vcore set to 1.25ish which is not supposed to happen.
Edit: Here's a brief description:
MSI; LLC
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