Highest Vcore you would ever use?

[fail at the internets]

I've seen a lot of people saying that above 1.5v will highly reduce the life of your CPU and was wondering what is the highest you would ever raise your vcore to.

 

[ledbythereaper]

1.4V on air.. It's not as much just the life of the CPU, it's what temps you're getting aswell.

 

[kitfit1]

2v, my mobo won't go any higher

 

[waso_dude]

c2d ---> 1.68 (1.7 in bios)

 

[Mattus]

This depends a lot on the CPU, particularly on the process size. i. e. 1.8v is OK for a 130nm AthlonXP but will murder a 45nm Core2.

 

[weescott]

Max so far.......... E2180: 1.65v
.........................E6750: 1.7V
.........................E4500: 1.625v
.........................Q9550: 1.55v
.........................X2 3800: 1.75v
.........................A64 3000: 1.65v
.........................A64 3000m: 1.65v
.........................XPM2500: 2.2v

 

[IceShock]

4400X2 took it to 1.775v and blew the voltage regulators on the motherboard. cpu is 100% fine tho, some one on here baught it off me for a cheap price of about 30 pounds i think it was

 

[rodders]

Im on 1.45v on air on a E6600

 

[Datamonkey]

1.7v in bios 1.65v under 100% load

Q6600 on an abit ip35-pro
running at 3.8ghz

Water cooled. temps stay at 62c under 100% load so im happy

 

[smsmasters]

1.424V for my e6600 @ 3.6ghz on air.

 

[drunkenmaster]

E6600: 1.7V
q6600 g0: 1.75v
Q6600: 1.75v
a64 939 2800+: 2.2v
A64 3000: 2.2v
A64 3500+ winnie: 2v
XPM2500: 2.4v

various air and water, the 2800+ on air, and the xpm.

only haven't gone higher on the quads because i gained smeg all from 1.65v up anyway so seemed little point, and the jump from 1.65 to 1.75 gave me silly temp increase. yay gigabyte for thinking that at 1.6v + 0.05v jumps would be good, when it does what, 4/5 steps for every 0.05v below 1.6v.

i forget what voltages i had several other chips to, but i've never been afraid of voltage, never had one die and sold them all and never have anyone say they've died at any point. the 2800+ ath 64 is still in my parents rig, overclocked but at stock voltage, but was at 2.2v for months.

 

[drunkenmaster]

1.7v in bios 1.65v under 100% load

Q6600 on an abit ip35-pro
running at 3.8ghz

Water cooled. temps stay at 62c under 100% load so im happy

i've just been running that 24/7 too, although 1.7v in bios was giving me 1.68v and a little lower temps, but i think my crucial is either on its way out, or overheating at the mo as i lowered speed and suddenly stable, only weird crashing for a couple days when i also started using fan heater to warm my crappy painful joints in this weather 4 sticks = lots of heat, no space for air to flow. need someone like ocz to make a nice memory cooler thats a 120mm fan, cba'd to bodge one together and the ones that have 3x 0.005mm fans cooling 2 sticks with lots of noise is retarded.

 

[Amonlym]

A64 X2 4800+: 1.65v
A64 3700+: 1.75v
AXP 2600+: 2.2v
AXPM 2500+: 2.0v
AXP 2100+: 2.2v
AXP 1600+: 2.5v
Tbird 1000: 2.8v
K6/2 500: 3.3V

none of the above have died (touch wood)