Voltage for 6850K/RAM Question

[trawetSluaP]

Hi all,

May start OC'ing the 6850K I have soon and was wondering about the voltage requirement.

At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.

Secondly, the RAM I have is 3200MHz but doesn't run at this speed at stock so I'm gonna bump that up to it's advertised speed and was wondering what the best settings are to help with stability. I know upping to System Agent voltage can help. Should I adjust anything else such as the VCCIO etc?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

 

[tinytomlogan]

With vcore you need to work backwards to find what its happy at when its stable

Same with the others - manually set what they are 'auto'ing' and then work those backwards.

There is no golden answer so you have to put the work in to find out what your set up can do

 

[Eddie long]

i'm going to show my newbie head hear , as i have never try'd undervolting/overclocking my cpu , but my 6850k must be power hungry running at 1.252v which seems an awful lot higher than yours

 

[trawetSluaP]

i'm going to show my newbie head hear , as i have never try'd undervolting/overclocking my cpu , but my 6850k must be power hungry running at 1.252v which seems an awful lot higher than yours

Is that at complete stock?

 

[Eddie long]

yep , it was my first build so its not been changed , haven't got up the nerve to try thus far

 

[trawetSluaP]

yep , it was my first build so its not been changed , haven't got up the nerve to try thus far

Silicon Lottery I guess, unless your motherboard is giving up more volts?

 

[Eddie long]

maybe ,, will have too look at it when i get my nerve up cause its seem high after watching and reading a few overclock/ undervolting posts , but i know , no 2 are the same

 

[Eddie long]

just an update for you today i took my heart in my hands and tried it ,, at 4ghz i managed to bring my voltage down a little to 1.15v from 1.252v and passed the OCCT 30min test run as TTL posted on rushkit

 

[trawetSluaP]

just an update for you today i took my heart in my hands and tried it ,, at 4ghz i managed to bring my voltage down a little to 1.15v from 1.252v and passed the OCCT 30min test run as TTL posted on rushkit

Nice!