24/7 Voltage and temps on a 2600k?

[almighty15]

As above.... Moved to water cooling from this...

Didn't worry myself with temps or voltage as the cold reduces there effect on the chip but want to play it a bit safe now I'm on water.

1.45v ( Load voltage ) good for 24/7?? Not really concerned about reducing the chips life span but don't want it to degrade either.

And what about safe temps? Used to run at around -30c loaded under phase ( Evap was -46c so 15c delta between CPU and EVAP temp seem about right )

Also, how do I get an MSI board to drop the voltage during idle?? As soon as I set Vcore manually Intel speed step doesn't seem to work with it enabled???

To reduce Vcore would I need to push the PLL up or down?

 

[TrojanWhore]

1.45v ( Load voltage ) good for 24/7?? Not really concerned about reducing the chips life span but don't want it to degrade either.

degrade = lower lifespan, does it not? I think most people say around 1.35v on SB if you wanna play 'safe'

And what about safe temps? Used to run at around -30c loaded under phase ( Evap was -46c so 15c delta between CPU and EVAP temp seem about right )

70ish degrees is fairly safe, personally I prefer a bit lower (my WC build maxes out at around 55 in game)

Also, how do I get an MSI board to drop the voltage during idle?? As soon as I set Vcore manually Intel speed step doesn't seem to work with it enabled???

if anything like my ASUS, set the voltage by offset instead of manual, this way, you are just controlling the difference between what the CPU thinks it needs at that load/speed, and what it actually gets, i.e. if you set an offset of +0.05v, and the CPU wanted 0.9 and 1.2 at idle and load respectively, then it would get 0.95, and 1.25, all completely arbitrary of course, not real numbers!

 

[8 Pack]

1.45 is fine on SB with half decent temps. I have servers in the financial industry running 24/7 100% load for years at these volts and 5ghz + OC. All are still fine!!!

Under 80 C temps!!!

Offset overclocking is the way to get voltage to drop with both Cstates and EIST enabled and balanced power mode in OS. This is often at the expense of stability when overclocked though so I personally rarely use it.