2600K limits?

Soldato
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Hello,


Just curious, I'm trying to see if my 2600k can be pushed further, I usually run 4500mhz and with everything on stock.

I tried 4.7 ghz, which went fine with all stock settings, however my cpu got 84C on 100% load which is a tad toasty. The bios volts it to much, it was 1.38 under load and 1.3 idle in bios (1.08v in OS with speedstep and such)

1.38 is a tad high, howver I don't know which settings adjusst this, I tried manually setting volts at 1.35 and load lien calibration on ''medium'' instead of ''auto''. This resulted in a 1.35V idle cpu voltage, and no idea what under full load as it'd bsod when booting windows.

What is the stock ''load line calibration'' setting? I want my cpu to be 1.35V max under full load... What LLC setting do I need to use?


Also, do you reckon it is safe running a cpu at 80 C full loads, above 80 I'd rather not go, at 4.5 ghz I'd have 78C full load on a hot day (been running that clocks for over a year now I think no problem), now running 4.6 ( with cpu volts on offset mode+ auto and LLC left on auto), which seems to be 80 max with a spike or 2 to 82 C during a cpu&fpu test.

Some people say 70 max, which seems a bit low, seeing the TJ max is 100... General rule of thumb was 20C udner TJmax, so you reckon 80 with an occasional spike to 82 is ok ?
 
What about the temp requirements, I've been running 70+ c under load for more than a year now I think.

By the way, I'm now running 4.6, still with vcore and llc on auto, as I got impatient with faffing about manually with the volt settings, whenever I manually changed the vcore and LLC, my oc would become unstable, on auto it's stable. So far so good, stable, though 75C under load, and 83-84C under cpu&fpu stress testing.

An yeah, the BCLK thing is nonsense, while I haven't played about with it on my own pc, I have done so on sandy's with a locked multi. Also, I used to run ram at 1.65V as that's what it needed before I switched to a different RAM kit (used to use my old s1366 kit, 3x4, now on 4x8 1.35v...).
 
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