Question CPU Voltage

[shankly1985]

Hello I using the Overclocking Profiles on my Asrock z68 extreme4 motherboard and have my i5 2500k set to 4.6ghz.
Now I read MB profiles normally set a to much Voltage for the Overclock so I would just like one of you to tell me if this voltage is fine.

Idle is 0.976v
Load is 1.391v

Temps Idle 35c
Load 64c

I know my temps are fine I just dont know much about the cpu voltage when using profiles is this to high?

Thanks

 

[SaTrOx]

Well i will tell u my voltages and u can figure out i think

1.32v core idle
under load it goes up to 1.34 overclock is 4.6 GHZ

Wich program u use to monitor voltages ?

 

[shankly1985]

Well i will tell u my voltages and u can figure out i think

1.32v core idle
under load it goes up to 1.34 overclock is 4.6 GHZ

Wich program u use to monitor voltages ?

HWinfo64 tells me min and max.
They isn't much between us two so would you say mine is a good voltage?

 

[HecFam]

Do you have asrock cool and quiet enabled?

It reduces the voltage in your cpu until its in use. I have it disabled so my CPU is always at 4.05GHz. I suppose its not a bad thing to keep on, but i think for overclocking its suggested to turn it off. But since yours is working, i guess its not a problem.

 

[shankly1985]

Do you have asrock cool and quiet enabled?

It reduces the voltage in your cpu until its in use. I have it disabled so my CPU is always at 4.05GHz. I suppose its not a bad thing to keep on, but i think for overclocking its suggested to turn it off. But since yours is working, i guess its not a problem.

That means when you not gaming and just say watching film or internet you going to be running CPU at full overclock 24/7 lol
I dont think thats a good idea my friend

 

[HecFam]

That means when you not gaming and just say watching film or internet you going to be running CPU at full overclock 24/7 lol
I dont think thats a good idea my friend

Possibly, but it does stop me from reaching high overclocks, with it enabled i only get around 3.6GHz.

Its not a bad idea as such to have it running full overclock 24/7, since that is what would happen on a board without cool and quiet. If it works for you then fine, i was just told to disable it when overclocking.

fair enough dude

 

[shankly1985]

Possibly, but it does stop me from reaching high overclocks, with it enabled i only get around 3.6GHz.

Its not a bad idea as such to have it running full overclock 24/7, since that is what would happen on a board without cool and quiet. If it works for you then fine, i was just told to disable it when overclocking.

fair enough dude

Ok thanks for you advice. It good idea if you just doing demanding tasks all the time tho. But my PC sits idle in the day time and having it running @overclock all time I wouldn't like that.

But you correct it would run at that if the board didn't have auto underclock features.

 

[shankly1985]

Anyone else shed some light on this. Is my CPU voltage good?

 

[vfdb]

I think my chip is a bit crappy, my i5 2500k is running @ 4.4 ghz.

1.308 idle
1.320 load

 

[spankingtexan]

Anyone else shed some light on this. Is my CPU voltage good?

As long as you do not exceed 1.425v, your volts while they could possibly be lowered slightly are below the max limit so yes you are fine. Also check your memory voltage, it is recommended to run at 1.50v and nearly all memory will run at those volts, do not exceed 1.60v on the ram

 

[nlel1975]

I run my i5-2500k @ 4.6 with the core voltage manually set to 1.35v and its rock solid stable although I did get a good chip in the silicon lottery.

 

[shankly1985]

Thanks guys this is very stable system I never crash or bsod. I run my RAM @1.575 with 1600mhz overclock.

I seen a post the other day where someone linked the Intel datasheet witch says max is 1.52000v

So I well within good range