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Hello! TL;dr: My Intel i9-14900k is running high temps in Cinebench r23 and when trying to undervolt it even just a little bit, Cinebench r23 crashes. But lowering it a little bit sadly doesn't change the temperatures that much. That's why I'm thinking not only to undervolt it, but also to underclock it and I want to hear some opinions or experiences about undervolting + underclocking. Disclaimer: I'm not very knowledgable on this topic and therefore pretty scared of doing something wrong. At the end of November, my 7 year old PC sadly died (pretty sure it was the motherboard because the PC doesn't get any power anymore beyond the motherboard). Since I didn't want to go through the trouble to buy the same motherboard (or something cheaper with the same socket or swap parts around), I wanted to buy a new PC and since it's my first pc since I started working a little, I wanted to go "all out". My PC: Intel Core i9 14900K MSI MEG CoreLiquid S360 AiO Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X (rev. 1.0) 2x 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 DIMM RAM 16GB MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 1000 Watt MSI MPG A1000G 4x 120x120x25mm be quiet! Silent Wings 3x 140x140x25mm be quiet! Silent Wings Gamdias Neso P1 Big Tower Windows 11 (To the question, why I didn't get a better graphics card: I was considering the 4070, but I'm not doing anything higher than 1920x1080, so I just got the 16Gb 4060 Ti for 475€. Every other Nvidia card was priced very unreasonably). The PC was built by the Vendor; they have a service where they do that for you. My last PC, I was so incredibly scared when putting in the CPU alone that I didn't want to go through that again. Also the cable management was a mess. Of course I did hear, that the newer Intel CPU's run very hot, so I looked at a undervolting guide by JayzTwoCents as well as Panjno. They made it look really really easy, so I was very optimistic going into it. Also their whole comment section said, how they wen to like -0,120V or something and their temperatures went down by a lot. So I wanted to try just that. I got HWMonitor, Cinebench r23 and Intel XTU. I ran a one time test in Cinebench (or 1 cycle? No idea what it's called) as recommended by Panjno, had a score of around 40432, but a temperature of 96°C. I lowered the Voltage to -0,050V, started the one cycle and Cinebench INSTANTLY crashes. I don't even know what went wrong, because people were going a lot lower with their Voltage. But I did what was recommended: Going back with the Voltage by 0,010V, so I did that. Cinebench didn't crash when I reached -0,025V (did the test again later and it didn't crash at -0,015V), but the temperatures were still at 92°C. I watched JayzTwoCents video again and in the beginning, he changes 2 - 3 options in the bios for it to work. Since I'm scared of the big unknown bios (to me it is at least) I made pictures of almost everything except Fan Configuration Settings and tried searching for the options he mentioned. Since the board is in german, it was a little harder, also his board was by Asus, which made it even more hard. The weirdest thing though was, that there was no "Default" mode for the CPU. The Gigabyte PerfDrive has 5 modes or something like that and the board was in the "Optimization" mode, which makes every core run at full power (I think; I also thin it's the second highest mode?). There is only one mode, were it has unlimited power, but it says you need custom water cooling for it. Since the bios settings didn't change much, I tried to change the Gigabyte PerfDrive from Optimization to "Spec Enhance", which apparently can lower the temps as well. Upon running Cinebench I couldn't even really go down to -0,010V without the programm crashing. What I did then, since you can apparently save profiles on the Aorus Master X and the vendor did say that they did a little bit of tuning (but no idea what exactly), was to reset to its default options. My PC then sounded like a jet engine when opening a programm; it was so loud for no reason suddenly, but I could go down to -0,050V, but for some reason the temperatures were even higher at 97°C (score was 40758). And there, I'm pretty sure the vendor just did some minor fan tuning, but I found nothing in the CPU Fan section of the motherboard, so no idea where they did it. I do understand that Cinebench is the extreme case and that this is not your daily thing. So I just started playing some games. I played some League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact and Need for Speed Unbound as of right now (don't have everything else yet) and the CPU temps never went above 85°C in Unbound and ~75°C in other games. Which is good, so currently I don't have to fear running into higher temps while I try to figure things out. I want to use my PC primarily for gaming; I do enjoy playing games on emulators though. Furthermore I'm interested in A.I. image generation or stable diffusion. My old PC's CPU was really strained when generating an image with a model (~85°C) and when I imagine this CPU doing something like that, the 100°C will be reached easily. I also want to dabble into making some videos, but that's a little further down. When the rendering process goes from let's say 30 minutes to 35 or even 40, that wouldn't be that big of a deal to me. If it went to over 45, that would be troublesome for me. But I'm not really interesting in squeezing even the tiniest bit out of my PC. My goals are stability, longevity/CPU lasting a very long time and low/adequat temperatures. I know a lot of tech people hate the concept of future proofing or having something for a long time, but this is what I'm after. If it'd be possible, I'd really like it if my PC would last me another 7 years (my pc before that also lasted a long time). I was also always a big fan of intel CPU's; my friend is an AMD fan, but I saw his CPU's die very quickly, after 2 years roundabout. But I never had any problem with Intel's. Until now. So that is why I want to underclock and undervolt it. Since I have never done it and there isn't really much info about underclocking in conjunction with undervolting, I wanted to ask about a it a little in here first. I don't want to dabble with it in the bios, I want to do it in Intel XTU. Like I said, I really fear the bios. Currently, the performance core ratio is at 57x and the efficient core ratio is at 44x. With what should I go down first? I want to underclock and undervolt it, but I don't want to bottleneck my own system. Like I said, I'm not really interested in squeezing everything out of my PC, but I also don't want to make it completely bad. But then again, my first priority are good temps and undervolting so I don't get scared once I do something more processor intensive or have to swap out my CPU in 3 years. Any advice would be appreciated!

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hey guys, i cant understand if this drop in performance is due to power limit throttling or temp throttling. a few minutes into the test, the 'power limit throttling' signal turns to 'yes' and then then performance drops, but that happens as soon as both the temps of gpu and cpu reach a particular point. i've tried undervolting but that didnt help. this really makes gaming horrible, because i start with 50-60 fps on warframe (with intel xtu running in the background), then PLT turns to 'yes' and i go to 12-13 fps. i'm considering repasting the cores but idk if that's gonna make any difference since the problem seems to be power related. any help would be really appreciated, thanks!

Hi all, I have a tongfang rebrand laptop with an Intel i7 10875h. I was undervolting the cpu and restarted my laptop but it doesn't want to start anynmore. The power light comes up and the keyboard had lighting but that's it. The screen doesn't show anything and I can't even get to the bios setup. Things I have tried so far: 1. Connecting to external monitor. No luck there. 2. Removing and re installing the RAM, SSD etc. 3. Disconnecting the battery, CMOS power and restarting. It looks like the undervolt setting has been saved somewhere in the bios or CMOS :( but I can't seem to reset it. I have that suspicion because the laptop still has my keyboard lighting settings even after unplugging the battery and CMOS. I am at wits end, not sure what more to do.

Sorry it is a long post, but hope you'll read it and Help Me!! Recently i purchased the Dell Inspiron 5577 it has an intel i5 7300hq soon as i purchased it and played games on it i noticed that everything was working fine and max cpu frequency was as described 3.46~3.5Ghz , so i tried to lower the temperature by undervolting my cpu, I downloaded intel XTU and did a stress test , the results were - Max cpu freq 3.46~3.5Ghz max cpu temp went upto 78 ° C then i did an undervolting of -100mV because i have read in a forum that it was stable for the dell 5577 everything went fine after that except for one thing after the undervolting my CPU never went upto 3.5 Ghz the max CPU frequency after undervolting was only upto 3.10Ghz max , i panicked and reset the core offset voltage to an in between value of -70mv but the results were same , max cpu freq went only upto 3.1 Ghz , now i have the core offset value set to 0mv again and no affects same max cpu frequency of 3.10 Ghz the laptop is brand new and i m afraid of this , please help anyone if you can.

Hi guys, Today i undervolted my surface pro 3 i7. Previously it would run hot and have the fan kick in whenever i would watch a youtube video. Now thanks to the undervolt using the intel extreme tuning utility (XTU) my temps are reasonable and the tablet is silent. I also noted a gain in fps in my games due to less thermal throttling therefore allowing me to maintain high cpu and gpu ratios for longer... I wanted to know if there is any danger with undervolting and if any of you guys who did it, you could help me to push my device further..

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