Safe Voltage for E6600

[braz2kuk]

Hi,

I am just putting my water cooling bits together on air my E6600 does 3.5Ghz with 1.425 vcore, now that she will be going under water what are safe voltages as temps won't be too much of a problem any more?

Thanks

 

[Jokester]

If you're stress testing using Prime/Orthos then temps will still likely be the limit. You'll probably find once you hit about 1.5-1.525V that you'll hit the temperature wall again.

Jokester

 

[w3bbo]

For benching I have gone upto 1.65v but I wouldn't recommend that for 24/7. My current setup is 3.9ghz with 1.52v. My previous was 4ghz with 1.6v.

iirc Intel have recommended a max vcore of 1.5825 (although there boxes say 1.35).

You will find that clockspeed and/or vcore will increase temps and any increase in either of those is 'risking' your cpu and definately shortening its lifespan - how much by nobody knows and as every cpu will be different each risk is also different - it is purely a best guess scenario and how much YOU are willing to push it, nobody can tell you how much is safe as the only safe setting is a stock setting.

 

[kevpuk]

You'll often find that there comes a time when you start having to pile loads of volts to gain marginal speed....this is where you draw the line