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Should I be giving my CPU voltage headroom when overclocking.

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I was wondering that when I overclock my CPU I should give it extra volts. Right now my voltage is set to 1.29 because that's where it stopped having problems. Should I increase it to 1.3 volts for headroom?

 

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3 minutes ago, TheLostCopycat said:

I was wondering that when I overclock my CPU I should give it extra volts. Right now my voltage is set to 1.29 because that's where it stopped having problems. Should I increase it to 1.3 volts for headroom?

 

Try it, see if you have any problems. If not then keep those settings.

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Maybe Restart it? 

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8 minutes ago, TheLostCopycat said:

I was wondering that when I overclock my CPU I should give it extra volts. Right now my voltage is set to 1.29 because that's where it stopped having problems. Should I increase it to 1.3 volts for headroom?

 

Can we have anything more than that (SPECS), if its intel I can help you but I haven't actually experienced OC'ing on AMD so cant really help you much with that

I hit 700W on an i5 with a NHD15

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Which CPU are you using? Some CPUs scale with voltage (basically every Intel CPU except 12th gen), some don't (Ryzen 7000 at ambient for instance). If increasing it helps, then keep increasing till it stops/temps get insane/you're beyond the safe limits for the silicon. If it doesn't, then try decreasing it and see if that helps. 

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39 minutes ago, TheLostCopycat said:

I was wondering that when I overclock my CPU I should give it extra volts. Right now my voltage is set to 1.29 because that's where it stopped having problems. Should I increase it to 1.3 volts for headroom?

 

Need more info.  There are dozens of CPU's to OC on dozens of motherboards.  

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On 5/9/2023 at 5:34 PM, Bob__ said:

Can we have anything more than that (SPECS), if its intel I can help you but I haven't actually experienced OC'ing on AMD so cant really help you much with that

i5 6600k

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On 5/9/2023 at 5:35 PM, RONOTHAN## said:

Which CPU are you using? Some CPUs scale with voltage (basically every Intel CPU except 12th gen), some don't (Ryzen 7000 at ambient for instance). If increasing it helps, then keep increasing till it stops/temps get insane/you're beyond the safe limits for the silicon. If it doesn't, then try decreasing it and see if that helps. 

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On 5/9/2023 at 6:04 PM, Dedayog said:

Need more info.  There are dozens of CPU's to OC on dozens of motherboards.  

i5 6600k on gigabyte z170

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Just now, TheLostCopycat said:

i5 6600k

As long as temps are below ~90C you can throw up to 1.4V at it and be fine. Intel 14nm scales pretty well with voltage, though it does run very hot. 

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