I've recently started to attempt to overclock my computer abit more (in sig) I before had it stable at 3.1Ghz (3105 = 345x9) My PWM temp was pretty high back then but as far as I were concerned at a safe temp... But I can't remember off hand at this moment. Anyway I've currently upped it, by pushing the bus speed to 378x9 (3402Mhz) meaning I've had to increase the voltage multiple times in the BIOS, I've been running OCCT, Orthos & 2 instances of Prime95 (Total of 6 threads altogether) I'd ran it for 6 hours yesterday before sleeping when I woke up I had found it had once again restarted so I bumped up the voltage again to like 1.43 or 1.45v in the BIOS currently CPU-Z is showing a jump between 1.360 & 1.390v the VCore. So far the stress tests have been running for 9 hours & I've to say that the temperatures are somewhat making me twitchy but I can't find a single straight answer where I look, as even people with Q6600's just say "My CPU is *C" * being a the value, without going into core temperatures, my actual CPU temperature in general is reading 49-52C in Everest & has been around that temp for a few hours now. What is more worrying me however is the fact that the Core & PWM temps are a fair bit higher...
Core1 & 2 are currently: 68C (And have been around 64-68C for a few hours.)
Core 3 & 4 are currently both 61C but they've been jumping around from like 57C to around 63C.
I'm somewhat worried about that, I'd assume I should be more worried about core temps than actual CPU general temp I'm guessing but not 100%, also my PWM temperature has been jumping between about 71-77C after this many hours, but I don't know a truly safe temperature for it. Would any of you say these temps are normal or need to be cooled down? I am wondering mostly however is that heat = decreased lifetime performance, would these temperatures lower the life too much? (Or even much at all?)
Last question I need help with is Voltages in the BIOS, Do ICH, ICHIO, MCH or similar voltages need to be increased when overclocking at all? As to be on the safe side I've notched those voltages up a little aswell when attempting to see if they would help stability however if they do NOT need to be I'd like to turn them back down as they are bound to be creating a little more heat than necessary. I've been searching hours for answers & everything I've read so far has either been confusing or vague... Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
Core1 & 2 are currently: 68C (And have been around 64-68C for a few hours.)
Core 3 & 4 are currently both 61C but they've been jumping around from like 57C to around 63C.
I'm somewhat worried about that, I'd assume I should be more worried about core temps than actual CPU general temp I'm guessing but not 100%, also my PWM temperature has been jumping between about 71-77C after this many hours, but I don't know a truly safe temperature for it. Would any of you say these temps are normal or need to be cooled down? I am wondering mostly however is that heat = decreased lifetime performance, would these temperatures lower the life too much? (Or even much at all?)
Last question I need help with is Voltages in the BIOS, Do ICH, ICHIO, MCH or similar voltages need to be increased when overclocking at all? As to be on the safe side I've notched those voltages up a little aswell when attempting to see if they would help stability however if they do NOT need to be I'd like to turn them back down as they are bound to be creating a little more heat than necessary. I've been searching hours for answers & everything I've read so far has either been confusing or vague... Thanks for any help you guys can give me.