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1.5 is so high mart ;o your gonna cook that baby soon 
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955BE overclocking
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Why are people using such high voltages?
I've got mine on 1.45 and it's running fine. Does hit 60-61 on prime95 which is high but I literally do that just for stress testing. In real life applications that use the 4 cores to the max (Sony Vegas/BFBC2) it hits 58 on 4.3Ghz.
You've obviously got a VERY good chip.
However, 58c in a game is wayyy too high for me, I can't get mine to hit 45c in real world.
1.55v is the maximus 24/7 AMD specify.
1.5v is fine.
Why are people using such high voltages?
I've got mine on 1.45 and it's running fine. Does hit 60-61 on prime95 which is high but I literally do that just for stress testing. In real life applications that use the 4 cores to the max (Sony Vegas/BFBC2) it hits 58 on 4.3Ghz.
Tbf, the few people who picked up c3 955s at the same time I did a couple months back were hitting 4ghz at 1.35-1375v. In that respect you voltage is high (although the temps for the speed are about right)
The voltage on these chips varies wildly from the original chips to the ones shipping now which are just under-clocked 125w 975s. Heat is this chips real issue which is why the newest ones that require the least voltage do so well.What does surprise me is the number of people over-clocking these cpus but failing to oc the cpu-nb too. Bad enough that it's too slow to keep up with the cpu core, but doing it when you have 1600 ram is a travesty imo. Heck, it only take 15-20min to reliably oc the nb compared to 24hrs of stress testing the cores hence it makes no sense to my mind
