When i overclocked my i7 i've always left LLC enabled (and is enabled now in fact). However i've been reading about voltage spikes when having it enabled particularly at higher clocks, is that true? and should i disable or enable mine? My system seems stable after running prime when i first overclocked it and a month down the line its ok *touches wood*
Load Line Calibration- Disable?
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By how long do you reckon? If its still going to last say 3 years and remain stable thats good enough for me.
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It's one of those settings that's always been a bit confused for me -- some people say one thing, others say other things. Can anyone clear the air here? I'd like to know too :/
It's about as opinionated a subject as anything can be in overclocking. It violates intel specifications and shows no gains that I care about. Lower idle voltage just doesn't matter. As such I've no interest in using it, lower idle voltage is not worth forcing the voltage regulators to work that hard.
The spikes exist, they drop neatly out of fourier analysis and can be viewed on oscilloscopes. No one disputes this. The argument for using it is "the spikes are probably small enough not to matter". The argument against is that it does nothing beneficial and puts spikes through the board that otherwise wouldn't be there. No deaths are convincingly attributed to this, but generally when a cpu (or to a lesser extent motherboard) dies it's been thrashed anyway so this isn't exactly conclusive.
The spikes exist, they drop neatly out of fourier analysis and can be viewed on oscilloscopes. No one disputes this. The argument for using it is "the spikes are probably small enough not to matter". The argument against is that it does nothing beneficial and puts spikes through the board that otherwise wouldn't be there. No deaths are convincingly attributed to this, but generally when a cpu (or to a lesser extent motherboard) dies it's been thrashed anyway so this isn't exactly conclusive.