Need Help! i7 Voltage Question.

[Ninja Please!]

I read through the official overclocking guide for i7 and did not answer my question.

Basically I have a [email protected]. The voltage is like 1.1875. Temps are fine. I can play games, surf web, whatever and everything is fine. prime 95 will crash it in no time flat however. One question I have is what kind of future will my chip have if I leave it as is, seeing how I'll never max load this cpu doing anything I actually want to do.

For some more background, I can get to 3.4ghz stable with this same voltage of 1.1875 and run prime95 till my hearts content and never get high temps. The thing is I have 1600mhz OCZ platinum ram (6gb) and I like the extremely quick game load time I get at 3.8ghz. I have my multipliers set to 21, 20,20,20 X 180ish (i'm at work so do not know exact) turbo mode on, hyperthreading on. Should I raise my volts which would in return raise my temps to keep 3.8 or will I really hurt anything keeping 3.8 on low volts? I want to also keep my ram speed over 1300mhz because I think that is what is giving me such faster loading times on games.

ram volts-1.50
cpu volts 1.16
qpi volts 1.1
evga x58 board / coolermaster v8

thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Nick1881]

It won't damage it having the volts too low however it may crash randomly, I'd up the vcore to about 1.3v. I'm running 1.4v on mine for 4Ghz stable.