3770k

[FTLN]

Afternoon all, I am going to be using 1.264 volts for a 24/7 overclock on my 3770k

How safe is this ?

Here is a screenie -

 

[Noz_God]

looks good to me temps and voltage are safe for 24/7 use

 

[PingPangBV]

your temps are looking awesome m8 =) I've seen 3770s hit their thermal threshold at lower volts than that so it looks like you were a bit lucky at the silicon lottery =)

 

[seumasbeathan]

1.26v is completely fine, anything under 1.4 is really

Bit interested in your Intel Burn Test results though, with 512mb ram I only take about 35 seconds for 10 runs and get about 95Gflops per one

 

[FTLN]

1.26v is completely fine, anything under 1.4 is really

Bit interested in your Intel Burn Test results though, with 512mb ram I only take about 35 seconds for 10 runs and get about 95Gflops per one

Its a new build and I havent got my ram yet, there is only 1 stick of 2gb on the board. With windows running im left with only around 800mb of memory free..

 

[airdeano]

its fine for the 4.5 OC. can it go lower?

 

[FTLN]

1.264 is the lowest I can get, just done another run and it failed.. Looks like im going to have to bump it up a little more..

Also just noticed that my VID is 1.296, does this mean at stock speeds the processor runs at 1.296 ?

 

[seumasbeathan]

What cooling are you running btw?

 

[FTLN]

What cooling are you running btw?

H60 for the moment...

Trying to get my head around vdroop controll also.. does anybody know if I need to use this whilst on a fixed vcore ? at the moment I have it on 100% and my volts are dropping to 1.272 from 1.28 under load

 

[FTLN]

your temps are looking awesome m8 =) I've seen 3770s hit their thermal threshold at lower volts than that so it looks like you were a bit lucky at the silicon lottery =)

I took of the IHS (delidded) and cleaned of the crappy thermal paste and glue and the put some gelid gc-extreme on it... I should have done some testing before I delidded to see the difference..

 

[Vexorcist]

I took of the IHS (delidded) and cleaned of the crappy thermal paste and glue and the put some gelid gc-extreme on it... I should have done some testing before I delidded to see the difference..

Hmm... for a rough reference it's 0.096v higher and ~20C lower than my default 3770k and H100i (see here for other parts) will reach when running Prime95, which takes all cores to 100% (or so says windows task manager) and inspires Intel's default boost thing to 3.9GHz. And your MSI CC doesn't have the weird yellow colour and pattern on it either; it looks so clean like that.

By default it will linger about .9280 with the odd spike to around 1.0 while I'm just browsing, and hover around 40C most days, but now it's sitting at around 30C. I might've agitated the cooler with those tests, or because of a slightly cooler day in general. Been high 20's up to low 30's lately, currently ~23C inside.

 

[FTLN]

I think my low temps are coming from me only having one stick of ram on the board at the moment, well see what happens when I get my final sticks..

 

[Vexorcist]

I only have one as well right now (got 2, 1 is demented so I took it out), but I also haven't been controlling the cooling either and I don't know what that gets up to when left to its own devices. In the past I've found things like that are reluctant to try very hard without encouragement.