1.52v Safe for 24/7?

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iBeInspire

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Hi All :)

First post, so be kind ~
I recently bought a MSI 890FXA-GD70 for £60 on ebay, soI thought I'd try my hand to overclocking to some depth...
I have a Athlon ii x3 450, and I now have it running @ 4.08Ghz @1.52v Stable (OCCT)...
I just wanted to know weather this was safe, since It seems like a lot of volts, I'm only a student, so money's limited, and I dont want to kill my CPU or Motherboard.
 
Q1. do you think that your pc would notice any difference if it was running at 3.6-3.8GHz ?

Q2. do you use any software (apps/games) that utilises the 4GHz+ speed ?

Q3. does money grow on trees in your back yard ?

if the answer is NO to all the above, reduce your clock speeds, and with it the voltages.

overclocking is fun and rewarding - overclocking can be a PITA and costly ;)
 
I personally wouldn't for 24/7.

However - it is a cheap processor so if it dies after 6 months, it isn't really going to do that much harm...
Maybe bring it down a little though
 
Thanks for the quick replies!

I actually play BF3, and the clock do make a difference since I'm CPU Limited in that game...
But If it's realistically going to die after ~6 months, I may well bring down the volts...
 
It won't just stop working (unlikely anyway)

What tends to happen is you need more and more volts to keep it stable at that clock ie - it bluescreens until you either raise the volts or drop the clock.

As dug says - you're best off dropping the clock a little
 
1.55 is the limit,1.45 is what i would consider a 'safe' voltage.
Degradation is not as bad as Sandybridge but JR is right,there will come a time when the volts you feed it will never be enough to keep your clocks.
 
Ok, thanks alot to everyone who helped, I'll set it at 1.45 and see how many hertz I can squeeze out :)
Eventually i'll pick up a fx4170 and squeeze that too :p
 
1.52 on amd is fine as long as the temps are kept below 50c (remember the temps are delta so 50 is really like 70)


A lot of AMD cpu's come with 1.4 or 1.45v out of the box and it just goes to show how many people on this forum are answering questions they know nothing about.
 
tinytomlogan said:
1.52 on amd is fine as long as the temps are kept below 50c (remember the temps are delta so 50 is really like 70)


A lot of AMD cpu's come with 1.4 or 1.45v out of the box and it just goes to show how many people on this forum are answering questions they know nothing about.
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These are 1.35v stock volt chips.
The actual temps reported are worked out on an algorithm that is not calibrated to centigrade,the convergence point between the 2 scales occurs around 40c on the thuban cores,you will have to research more on that for the Athlon chips.
 
1.52 is still fine for this, just keep the temps down.

AMD like volts a lot more thn the new intel ones do.

I remember the days of 1.55v on an Intel 775 <3
 
tinytomlogan said:
1.52 is still fine for this, just keep the temps down.

AMD like volts a lot more thn the new intel ones do.

I remember the days of 1.55v on an Intel 775 <3
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I agree,you could go to 1.55v on this chip at a push too.
The 50c limit is a bit strict but it will guarantee a stable chip,they do get flaky after 55c.
 
Ok, I still think Ima bring the volts down maybe to 1.48v, since this rig is my baby and I don't really want to degrade it.

And the whole temperate talk has completely baffled me, I always thought the CPU temp readouts were simply in degrees Celsius. So If my room's at 13 oh-C, and my CPU temp readout in OCCT/Hardware monitor is 52, The processor's actual temp is 65 oh-C..?
How can the sensor INSIDE the CPU work out a delta without a separate sensor outside my case?
 
Ok, On the temps side of things I think I've got things covered.

The CPU Temp readout on any monitoring program is coming from a physical sensor in the socket of my motherboard. If It says the CPU is at 52 C, It's at 52 C. If My room were to go to 20 C, The temp readout would now be 59 C... It's not in any way a delta, you have to work the delta out yourself, which is just as I thought all along, and hopefully it's all been cleared up now :)

On the voltage side of things, I've just got a bog standard clock of 3.65Ghz @1.45v, I'm going to mess with it more later, Hopefully try get ~3.8Ghz stable at similar volts.

Thanks to all who helped, and even pushed me to do a little research into the mechanics of temperature sensors and how they're incorporated into PCs :D
 
iBeInspire said:
Ok, On the temps side of things I think I've got things covered.

The CPU Temp readout on any monitoring program is coming from a physical sensor in the socket of my motherboard. If It says the CPU is at 52 C, It's at 52 C. If My room were to go to 20 C, The temp readout would now be 59 C... It's not in any way a delta, you have to work the delta out yourself, which is just as I thought all along, and hopefully it's all been cleared up now :)

On the voltage side of things, I've just got a bog standard clock of 3.65Ghz @1.45v, I'm going to mess with it more later, Hopefully try get ~3.8Ghz stable at similar volts.

Thanks to all who helped, and even pushed me to do a little research into the mechanics of temperature sensors and how they're incorporated into PCs :D
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excellent - well done fella
 
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