e8400 volts too high ?

[darkage]

I'm currently running the e8400 at 3.7g linked to my ddr at 1066 .... everything is smooth, temps are at 39-42c idle and from running prime for an hour they top'd off around 56c doing so i got the volts set to 1.32, after reading the guide, i notice what i was reading was safe for the 65nm's but its a different story for the 45nm's .....

Should i back off abit to drop the volts? Am i safe with the temps an volts i'm at ... system seems great, just the volts got me a little concerned in the back of my head ....

 

[beurling]

Mine required 1.425Volts in Bios to achieve stable 4Ghz. Due to Vdroop my actual vcore was about 1.38Volts. Therefore, your voltage is fine... you can double check in CPU-Z to see what your actual voltage is because it should be slightly lower than what you punched into the BIOS.

 

[darkage]

Ok cool, Core voltage in HW monitor and cpu-z both report 1.32v ... 3.712ghz HW mon reports 38c cputin idle with core 1 an 2 at 40-41c ...

I tried 4g but i kept blue screening on loading windows ... might of missed something, i'll try again in alittle while ...

 

[Evilonigiri]

You should minimize the voltage, but I doubt you'll get much lower than that.

 

[jay_l_a]

My e8400 is at 3.6GHz.
BIOS I have vCore at 1.2875.
CPUz reports 1.248
Everything seems fine to me.
(I bumped FSB +0.1v also)

 

[beurling]

ya if you wanted any higher than that, you would need to push the 1.33-1.38volts mark.. It kind of jumps after 3.6ghz.

 

[darkage]

Its just zooming along here at 3.71ghz ... 1066mhz ddr2 ... no problems, 37-38c idle ... not much of a boost from 3.6ghz, maybe like a 250 point lift in 3dmark06 ...