show your sandy bridge 24/7 clocks and volts

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So, been messing around as I have been on a 4.5GHz using Auto settings for a while now.

Managed to shave some VCORE and get 4.6GHz. Under load seems to peak at ~1.328 which is .030 lower than my 4.5GHz with autos.

Think I could shave a little more VCORE off with a - offset but going to use this for a while and see how I get on. 4.7GHz is asking for a lot more voltage and pushing temps I would rather not see on my air.
 
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Sorry to go off topic guys but rather than a new thread, i am looking for a new CPU cooler and i was wondering what people recommended as you clearly are overclocking your chips etc so your using good cooling.

Looking to spend around £20 or so. On the stock cooler and my i5 2300 i am on 77c which is quite hot?
 
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A break down to help you figure it out. I'll round the numbers to make things a little simpler.

VID: 1.380v
Required vcore: 1.400v

So simply 1.400v - 1.380v = +0.02v - this is your offset.

In your case:

VID: 1.3861v
Required vcore: 1.4200v

So 1.4200v - 1.3861v = +0.0339v so I would say an offset of +0.035 or +0.040

Offset/dvid confused me too, for longer than it probably should have :)

Remember your VID will change depending on what multiplier you set (as far as i know).
 
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When you set offset to +0.165, what voltage do you get under load? Check with easytune, not cpu-z, since cpu-z doesnt show the right voltage for gigabyte boards as far as i know.
 
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right.my multi is 47 and in coretemp at idle the vid is showing 1.0057(under load the vid is 1.3911) this is with an offset of 0.165 and is stable. in cpu-z at idle the volts are showing at 1.140v (under load it shows at 1.404 and goes up to 1.416v) i have c1e and eist enabled and everything else disabled
 
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Seems to me that the voltages im having to use are a hell of a lot higher than most people. Ive been on 5ghz at silly voltage , ive now gone back down to 4.8 and im hoping to bring the voltage down from where its at at 1.47v. Ive tried many times but just cant seem to get that voltage down. The settings i have are

48 x 100
Pll over voltage On
Dram voltage 1.55 9-9-9-24 2t
LLC Ultra High Level 5
Pll Voltage auto
Other voltages on auto
Cpu voltage Offset +0.015 which at load gives it the needed 1.47
C1E and other c states disabled.
EPU and spread spectrum Disabled
Now if you guys can tell me if something seems out of place there that would be helpful. Should i have anything else enabled or disabled? ive done these settings from the top of my head so i might have missed a few things . It just seems to me needing 1.47 for 4.8 seems high. 4.9 needs 1.54v and 5 ghz is a lot higher. Temps right now on 1.47 on prime or IBT dont hit 75. By the way i dont mind using high voltages, want to stay under 1.52 at prime though for 5ghz or 4.9.
 
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might be wrong but i think for the offset mode to work you need to enable C1E and EIST.1.47v for 4.8 is only high because people post their overclocks when they have a good chip.but think of all the others who have average chips that need higher volts,theres more of those than good chips.it looks like my chip needs 1.42 for 4.7 so at 4.8 i would need about that same
 
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i have it set on offset mode mate so it shows whatever i set it to. 1.59v is needed for 5 ghz and that for me is too high. temps still fine though. 4.8 needs 1.47ghz and 4.9 needs 1.53ghz
 
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Thought I'd chip in with mine :)

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Voltage is a little high for 4.5 - will drop to around 1.3 and see how it fairs.

Under load my maximum temp hits 61C on core 2.
 
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Liking the offset mode :), managed to lower my voltage & it's passed 20 runs of IBT (Set to use maximum memory & 8 threads).

Idle.

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Load.

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