Force constant voltage or no?

[SeanAngelo]

So I have installed my 2500k and I decided to overclock it to 4Ghz at 1.2V. (for now)

 

I ran AIDA64 for 2 minutes (don't have time right now to test if stable its 12:38am) and temps never got over 62c, despite having a shitty cooler (Arctic Cooling Freezer 7) I don't know if that's bad or good.... I will be upgrading the cooler next week to a Noctua NH-D14 or Corsair H110i GTX.

 

So, is it okay running at 1.2V constantly because on CPU-Z, I can see its 1.2V even if it underclocks to 1.6Ghz when idling... How can I NOT force 1.2V as the constant voltage? I know it's in the BIOS but I just need to find the setting for it

 

I'll try lowering the voltage until 4Ghz is stable...

 

Specs are in my profile.

 

Thanks in advance,

Sean.

[MayorPotatoSalad]

There should be a feature called 'adaptive voltage' which will ramp up the voltage when its needed but turn it down if not. Be careful using stress tests while adaptive voltage is enabled however as it can cause voltage spikes which may damage your cpu.

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

Look for a vcore offset or adaptive option

[SeanAngelo]

There should be a feature called 'adaptive voltage' which will ramp up the voltage when its needed but turn it down if not. Be careful using stress tests while adaptive voltage is enabled however as it can cause voltage spikes which may damage your cpu.

 

Look for a vcore offset or adaptive option

 I can't find it I'll do this tomorrow, its 1:10am and I have college in the morning lol.

[ApolloEleven]

Some motherboards, particularly older platforms, may not have that option I'm afraid.

[harrynowl]

 I can't find it I'll do this tomorrow, its 1:10am and I have college in the morning lol.

LGA1155 didn't feature adaptive mode. You had to create a manual offset.

 

What board do you have?

 

And Sandy deserves better than 4/1.2

[DunePilot]

Most motherboards have some form of BIOS settings for low voltage states - C1, C3, C6, C7 or whatever it is. You can turn these off if you want. Most also have some form of Vdroop settings for voltage fluctuations under load. For intance... off, which is no voltage control to combat vdroop, intel recommended which is slight voltage adjustments, Level 1 which is more aggressive than the intel one but which will do better than the intel one usually but it still will not exceed the voltage you have set in BIOS, and then there is level 2 which pretty much prevents any vdroop but runs the potential of spiking the voltage higher than what it is set at in BIOS.

[SeanAngelo]

LGA1155 didn't feature adaptive mode. You had to create a manual offset.

 

What board do you have?

 

And Sandy deserves better than 4/1.2

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P motherboard, i5 2500k

 

Most motherboards have some form of BIOS settings for low voltage states - C1, C3, C6, C7 or whatever it is. You can turn these off if you want. Most also have some form of Vdroop settings for voltage fluctuations under load. For intance... off, which is no voltage control to combat vdroop, intel recommended which is slight voltage adjustments, Level 1 which is more aggressive than the intel one but which will do better than the intel one usually but it still will not exceed the voltage you have set in BIOS, and then there is level 2 which pretty much prevents any vdroop but runs the potential of spiking the voltage higher than what it is set at in BIOS.

I have seen those settings C3 and C6 in the BIOS

 

I'll configure it later but now I'm troubleshooting my RAM, which causes the computer to go on and off everytime. i'm getting frustrated *sigh*