Lower temps AFTER overclock?

sehcure · 7 Feb 2012 at 14:25

I had a mild OC of my 2500k of 4.3Ghz, and I thought i'd take the plunge and crank up the vcore a bit and reach 4.5.

My coretemp/hwmonitor temps at 4.3 were mid 60s, maxing at 70-71 degrees and now i'm getting 60-67 across all cores, nothing higher than that. CPUz is showing 1.296-1.3v under prime95 full load, bios is showing 1.32 under load. It's really confusing me and I'm worried that there's something wrong with the hardware..

It shouldn't be COOLER! D:

This is with a gellid tranquillo rev 2, a front stock fan in that came with the case and a side antec tri-speed 1200rpm job pulling air in.

Deception · 7 Feb 2012 at 14:27

Could be a different room temperator. Did you change any of the volts?

sehcure · 7 Feb 2012 at 14:48

I raised the vcore slightly, though as it's done via offset on my ap-d3 it's kinda' hard to measure - Cpuz is showing 1.296-1.3, with BIOS showing a bit more.

I also raised the RAM to 1.55v. It's the hyperx grey rated at 1.65, but SB uses 1.55 etc.

pgi947 · 7 Feb 2012 at 17:25

If its offset it could just be your vid has dropped?

sehcure · 7 Feb 2012 at 17:31

My VID in coretemp is showing as 1.4x or something D:
vcore is between 1.29-1.31 in every other monitoring program used...

Davefran · 7 Feb 2012 at 17:43

First off VID and vcore are NOT the same thing. And how come you changed the DRAM voltage ? It should be fine at 1.5v.
As said before maybe your ambient temp is lower than it was before.

sehcure · 7 Feb 2012 at 22:22

Davefran said:
First off VID and vcore are NOT the same thing. And how come you changed the DRAM voltage ? It should be fine at 1.5v.
As said before maybe your ambient temp is lower than it was before.

Because the RAM is rated at 1.65; it has shown a slight performance with the extra juice.

Ambient temp is the same.