Need some advice on my current i5 setup. Basically, I put everything together and left the bios well alone as I just wanted a working PC. Everything is on auto, and the current ram is running well below the advertised spec (1066mhz instead of 1600mhz)
Here's a cpu-z snip;
The temperatures on idle (speedstep on, so 1.2ghz at 0.8 volts) is on low 30's where it used to be low 20s. Obviously, it's now summer, and dust has collected, so I'm hardly surprised. But the voltage on load (as shown) is 1.2 volts for stock (well, turboboost is on, but pretty much stock as no settings have been altered). On stock under stress it reaches 60c pretty quick, and touches 70 after a while. I'd expect that from a 4GHz overclock, not really for stock.
It's the Intel heatsink, cable management is poor and it's probably quite dusty. But these temps still seem a bit high so would reducing voltage bring them down?
Should I lower this? What's the risk behind lower core voltage? And if it bluescreens during testing, could this mean damaged hardware?
I have overclocking experience on my old E5200, but I've not touched it since. So I'm a bit out of touch.
Thanks.
Here's a cpu-z snip;
The temperatures on idle (speedstep on, so 1.2ghz at 0.8 volts) is on low 30's where it used to be low 20s. Obviously, it's now summer, and dust has collected, so I'm hardly surprised. But the voltage on load (as shown) is 1.2 volts for stock (well, turboboost is on, but pretty much stock as no settings have been altered). On stock under stress it reaches 60c pretty quick, and touches 70 after a while. I'd expect that from a 4GHz overclock, not really for stock.
It's the Intel heatsink, cable management is poor and it's probably quite dusty. But these temps still seem a bit high so would reducing voltage bring them down?Should I lower this? What's the risk behind lower core voltage? And if it bluescreens during testing, could this mean damaged hardware?
I have overclocking experience on my old E5200, but I've not touched it since. So I'm a bit out of touch.
Thanks.
