Undervolting 8700k advise/ experience needed

[Jay Deah]

Currently running 5ghz @ 1.31v but it’s summer in the UK and I’m struggling with the heat this thing is pumping out.

 

thinking of clocking it down for a while to stop me swearing. Anyone ever done this before and where was the sweet appt?

 

its a gaming pc so don’t need the performance and the pc is on the floor under a desk that’s built into an alcove in the corner of the room so big heat trap

[AskTJ]

That voltage is decent. Try putting it down by 0.05 at a time

[DarkSmith2]

Its a CPU, its almost impossible that its increasing your roomtemp more than your GPU... 

But if it helps coffeelake scaling is between 0.04-0.06v per 100MHz if you are stable 5GHz @1.31v i would asume you can run something like 4.8GHz @1.23v

[O9B0666]

I run my pc at stock speeds with 1.17v stable. Our pc room gets super hot by itself so we use a ac in their when in their. I'm also delided which helps a ton. It's been in the upper 80's to low 90's here with high humidity.