E8400 Clock Settings

[upmg]

Just checking out uGuru and noticed my Voltages warning was up.

Do I have the settings set wrong?

Thanks

 

[Cob]

Well it's red simply because it is set to give a warning once the ICH voltage exceeds 1.35v. You should be able to change the warning limit.

Tho 1.36v is pretty high.

 

[upmg]

Basically I lost my over clock settings that OcUK set when they shipped the PC. So I rang tech and they quoted me those figures.

The guy I spoke to ran them off the top of his head and was umming and arrring when qutoing them, so I am thinking maybe he got 1 of them wrong. The Memory/CPU clock is working fine.

Im just a little concerned on that figure. Should I change it, or is that overclock setting fine?

Thanks for replying.

Also when I set uGuru to AutoDrive. It crashed my PC

 

[Cob]

What's you systems spec?

 

[upmg]

What's you systems spec?

Ultima OC HD 3870 X2" Intel Core 2 DUO E8400 3.00GHz @ E8800+ 3.66GHz Dual Core SILENT DDR2 System

- Intel Core 2 DUO E8400 3.00GHz Dual Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.66GHz and beyond. (9 x 410MHz - 1666MHz FSB)
- Sunbeam Tuniq Tower 120 Intel approved cooler
- Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians
- Abit IX38 Quad GT Intel X38 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Award winning Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 1000MHz+)
- 500GB Samsung 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- ATi Radeon HD 3870 X2 1024MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- Samsung 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black)
- Black Sony Floppy Drive
- OCZ 600W Next Generation Power Supply
- Logitech Deluxe 660 Cordless Desktop

With these as options:

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
Extra Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AL1065)

 

[Mud]

You shouldn't really need more/much more than the stock voltage (1.225V) for 3.6GHz.

 

[JonBev33]

As Cob said you can raise the volt max alert to get rid of the warning. Also, in my experience 1.36v is well within the capability of the E8400 before temps get hot or any degredation sets in (which I have not seen at all even up to 1.45v).

 

[upmg]

Thanks for replying guys.

I did what you said and changed my voltage max in uGuru to 1.36 to get rid of the warning. Been a few days now hasn't it?

And I have just noticed the warning again and its now at 1.37v lol

How did it move by itself? maybe its just a sensor?

 

[Cob]

Voltage readings usually fluctuate by a couple of ticks.