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AMD 6000 X2 Maximum Safe Voltage on Air???
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So long as you can keep temps below 60'c at load then 1.6v is OK.
Personally I ran mine at 1.55v to push to 3.6GHz and the temps were a bit high on load, pushing in to 60's but then I'm using a very low rpm fan on my arctic freezer.
The tuniq tower should dissipate a lot of heat.
In terms of CPU life expectancy versus speeds versus volts, you need to find your CPU sweet spot which may well be 1.5 or 1.6v. If you can keep it idle at acceptable temps then your likelihood of premature failure is low, I've never killed a CPU from massive overvolts that had well controlled temps.
...aside from my Duron 600@1GHz (something silly like 2.1v) which died a horrible death after the fan failed. It melted, literally.
Personally I ran mine at 1.55v to push to 3.6GHz and the temps were a bit high on load, pushing in to 60's but then I'm using a very low rpm fan on my arctic freezer.
The tuniq tower should dissipate a lot of heat.
In terms of CPU life expectancy versus speeds versus volts, you need to find your CPU sweet spot which may well be 1.5 or 1.6v. If you can keep it idle at acceptable temps then your likelihood of premature failure is low, I've never killed a CPU from massive overvolts that had well controlled temps.
...aside from my Duron 600@1GHz (something silly like 2.1v) which died a horrible death after the fan failed. It melted, literally.
Well not strictly true, over-voltage does shorten the life span of a semiconductor due to electromigration which is the minute fragmenatation of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a conductor.
Naturally this takes time but is amplified by higher volts and hence shortens life (reduces meantime before failure/expected life time).
Realistically at it's extreme we're talking about 5 year life envelope being reduced to half that. It's a rather approximate science for an end user but when you consider the trade off for performance and actual use i.e. the time until next upgrade, the chances of a failure are slim.
Naturally this takes time but is amplified by higher volts and hence shortens life (reduces meantime before failure/expected life time).
Realistically at it's extreme we're talking about 5 year life envelope being reduced to half that. It's a rather approximate science for an end user but when you consider the trade off for performance and actual use i.e. the time until next upgrade, the chances of a failure are slim.
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yes it was stable. i had to drop the ram speed to 667mhz...
i think it depends on the motherboard. i had 2 motherboards using the 6000+ and one motherboard did better than the other.. i think my temps was about 28c ida and 41c load @ 3.52ghz..mattymaxx how you manage 3.55ghz on a 6000? i had a 6000 before my new wolfdale toy i only manged to push 3.4ghz out of it, what are your temps vcore like cause am thinking of building my 6000 rig back upn watering her