Is it possible to overclock AND have power saving mode?

bicpug · 18 Sep 2013 at 21:57

Title says it all, could i overclock to 4.2/4.4ghz AND still have the power step cstate things enabled to reduce power usage when I'm NOT rendering?
(Dual fan Phantek 140mm cooler)

Haswell 4770k
MSI Z87-GD65 gaming
Teamgroup Vulcan red 2x8gb 2133mhz
Seasonic X-Series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

wazza300 · 18 Sep 2013 at 22:49

swiftmetal · 18 Sep 2013 at 23:31

It is buy it somtimes makes oc's unstable. Just try it if it works keep it if now go back to the most stable setting .

8 Pack · 19 Sep 2013 at 10:59

Power Saving what the hell??? 4 x 1200 watt PSU per rig is the way to go!!!

shadow_boxer · 19 Sep 2013 at 11:07

When running at max or near max overclock I have all the power saving features turned off for stability. On the other hand if for example all I'm going to be doing is browsing the interwebs or office work and no gamimg I run at stock speeds.

wildman · 26 Sep 2013 at 13:22

If you want to have power saving features such as reduced vcore when idle then you need to set the vcore to auto or have the ability to set an offset ( not available I tihnk on most MSi motherboards). From experience most boards when set to auto vcore either send to much voltage into the chip for a moderate OC or not enough if you are going quite high.

Moreover sometime (more often than not in my limited experience) the power saving features make the overclock somewhat unstable. I did notice that when I had EIST and C1E features on I was getting a lot of BSODs @4.8ghz on my 2500k. WHen I turned them all of and had constant vcore the system was rock solid.