45nm E7200, 1.5V safe or will that kill it quick?

Dutch Guy

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I have my E7200 running at 3.8Ghz but it needs 1.475V to run Orthos stable, temps under 100% load are 60C - 65C

Is 1.475V going to kill the chip very quickly or will it only degrade after a year or so?

And another question, is there a site where I can calculate how much power the CPU uses when overclocked?
 
Because that is a 45nm chip, then 1.475v is very high for what you should put through it.. as for how long it will last at that I dont know if anyone can really say.

Isnt the limit for 45nm CPU's like 1.400v?
 
Dutch Guy said:
I have my E7200 running at 3.8Ghz but it needs 1.475V to run Orthos stable, temps under 100% load are 60C - 65C

Is 1.475V going to kill the chip very quickly or will it only degrade after a year or so?

And another question, is there a site where I can calculate how much power the CPU uses when overclocked?
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I would'nt dare put that much through mine for any length of time mate. Had mine at 4ghz with 1.375v and didnt like that. I'd be slowing it down if I was you, say 3.4 and see what least amount voltage you can use with it.

Got mine now at 3.4 with 1.200v which I'm comfortable with.
 
I can always run at 3.4Ghz with a lower voltage and it would be still fast enough but somehow I like to run the CPU at the max it can run stable :p

I think it was stable with 1.4V at 3.6Ghz so I might drop back to that.
 
Meloco said:
Yes, depending on your mobo they should have a utillity for it. However, it will clock back down on restart. (so u will have to repeat the process).
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I will check the CD that came with my mobo, I also found a program called Rightmark CPU Clock Utility that might be able to do it.

Ideally I want a program that will alow me to run at 6*[email protected] (close to default speed) when browsing etc. and when I play a game I can overclock to 9*[email protected]
 
Dutch Guy said:
I will check the CD that came with my mobo, I also found a program called Rightmark CPU Clock Utility that might be able to do it.

Ideally I want a program that will alow me to run at 6*[email protected] (close to default speed) when browsing etc. and when I play a game I can overclock to 9*[email protected]
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speedstep (which is on the bios, a built in intel ability) will do that for you...
 
well id say 1.5v is safe, id say any voltage is safe for any processor as long as you can keep it cool enough to run cool.

obviously some people will beg to differ and want a processor to last longer etc but iv got a E6600 @ 3.8ghz @ 1.65v :p but it loads in orthos @ 77c but in games it never goes over 60 and in real world you arent stressing a processor 100% all the time so im not botherd about my temps that much, im botherd about the speed ;) and at the end of the day if it does kill the processor quick which it hasnt done in the past 18months over then its only 100 quid ish for another half decent good clocking dual core :)
 
IceShock said:
well id say 1.5v is safe, id say any voltage is safe for any processor as long as you can keep it cool enough to run cool.
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Due to the hafnium used to manufacture 45nm processors the silicon can actually degrade when too much voltage is put through it for a certain length of time. The older 65nm CPUs don't suffer from this, in which case go willy nilly with the voltage if you have something like LN2 to cool it :)
 
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