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hi guys just got a 6700k and while overclocking on my asus formula 8 i set manual voltage and the 1.29v but under load (stress test) it goes to 1.4 regardless of what i set in bios any ideas
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1.4v is high but still below what Intel officially recommends. I run my 6600k at 1.42v and have no regrets (yet).
There's capacitors all around your CPU socket, it'll be coming from those.
Not good quality for a £309 motherboard but thanks thought it was in that area
1.4v is high but still below what Intel officially recommends. I run my 6600k at 1.42v and have no regrets (yet).
ROFLMAO.
Intel recommends staying within 10% of the VID, in other words, do not exceed 1.3V.
Please don't put out dangerous and misleading information. You aren't helping anybody. You have no regrets yet because Skylake has not been out long enough for you to have regrets. When your chip starts degrading in a couple of years you just might have them.
So many people don't read OC guides or read crappy ones and they don't understand how to overclock post-ivybridge machines properly. There are so many things you have to tweak outside of Vcore and frequency it's just not funny. I seriously doubt that anybody on any kind of reasonable on-air overclock needs anything over the 1.3V ballpark, and if they do, they shouldn't do it unless they are experts with very good cooling.
OP- make sure your voltage is set to MANUAL, not offset or adaptive, if you want to dial in your voltage directly. However offset is a better way to go and if you can get adaptive to work properly it is ideal.
You should also play around with LLC (load line calibration) in order to get voltage under load as close as possible to voltage in bios.
Also you want to avoid vdroop/vdrop as much as possible. LLC does this.
Don't run your chip at 1.4V unless you are able to keep it very cool. Not a good idea. On Sandybridge you could kind of get away with it but not anymore.
By the way capacitors do not whine. Coils whine. Coils are inside chokes.
1.4 is fine!! Use the system have fun!!