When you've found your max stable cpu overclock...

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Do you then scale it back a bit for 24/7 use or do you tend to just run it at max all the time?

Also for 24/7, do you switch any of the things like speedstep and other power saving features back on or not?

I tend to scale back a bit but leave all the power saving stuff off, just wondered what everybody else thinks about these things.

Cheers
 
Keep it.

Personally its not a max stable overclock if it results in unworkable temps/noise in day to day use. I'm not interested in suicide runs for screenshots

Always have powersaving stuff off as well
 
I found my max stable and then dropped it back down because my max takes too many volts for my liking and 400mhz doesn't make that much difference really. Why turn off powersaving though? I don't see why the cpu needs to run flat out when browsing the internet or idling. I have every power saving option enabled and the voltage applied as a offset so that when idling the cpu drops down to 800mhz and the voltage down to around 0.1v (though I am not sure anything is reading it correctly). As a result my entire pc only pulls 62w at the wall when idling/browsing the net. When the performance is needed it clocks back up again.
 
Well my maximum stable overclock without mental volts is 5.4GHz on this 2700K, but I scaled it back to 5GHz and dropped the voltage down to 1.38v.
 
pastymuncher said:
I found my max stable and then dropped it back down because my max takes too many volts for my liking and 400mhz doesn't make that much difference really. Why turn off powersaving though? I don't see why the cpu needs to run flat out when browsing the internet or idling. I have every power saving option enabled and the voltage applied as a offset so that when idling the cpu drops down to 800mhz and the voltage down to around 0.1v (though I am not sure anything is reading it correctly). As a result my entire pc only pulls 62w at the wall when idling/browsing the net. When the performance is needed it clocks back up again.
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Yep I just upped the turbo boost to 4.2GHz on my 3570k and with all the other power features, at idle it just drops the clock frequency and power consumption of course ;)
 
I bought this chip from someone who was selling it as a fantastic overclocker, with screenshots attached for 5GHz on air with 1.38V.

I managed to get it to 5.4 but I can't remember the voltage... Anyway it was too hot to stress test for more than about 10 seconds with my H100 + SP120's, so in fairness I don't know if it was "stable". :p
 
Nah I'll just hammer mine till it thermal throttles in IBT then turn the voltage down till it is under it and find the best clock speed to match that and be stable because it will never get that hot no matter what I do in real life use. 1.4v it throttles under IBT so I use 1.375v (I got a awful overclocker and if I lower voltage it won't boot)
 
Acme said:
I bought this chip from someone who was selling it as a fantastic overclocker, with screenshots attached for 5GHz on air with 1.38V.

I managed to get it to 5.4 but I can't remember the voltage... Anyway it was too hot to stress test for more than about 10 seconds with my H100 + SP120's, so in fairness I don't know if it was "stable". :p
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Well, regardless, you even manged to boot at that freq which is impressive. When you eventually upgrade, be sure to give it a full-on beasting before you send it off to the Graveyard of Stuffs. And YouTube it :D
 
I booted my 2500K at 5.4GHz as well, but that definitely wasn't stable. It BSOD'd a few seconds after I opened CPU-Z and gawped for a moment. :D
 
All power saving features on and adaptive voltage.

Why anyone would leave the power saving off is beyond me.

only reason to turn it off is to avoid false flag bsods when stress testing
 
I've always left all powersaving on,since my x58 board i7 920 days

Currently have a 2700k and 3770k both at 4.8ghz 24/7

Just dial in the oc till your happy with voltages and temps
 
MrWhippy said:
Do you then scale it back a bit for 24/7 use or do you tend to just run it at max all the time?

Also for 24/7, do you switch any of the things like speedstep and other power saving features back on or not?

I tend to scale back a bit but leave all the power saving stuff off, just wondered what everybody else thinks about these things.

Cheers
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It depends on whether you want to use your machine, or spend time recovering from crashes just for the bragging rights. Better to have a slightly slower, rock solid machine than a slightly faster one that crashes left, right and centre at the most inconvenient times.

Me personally, I also want the power saving, because it means a quieter, cooler machine when it's a low speeds (which is actually most of the time you have it on). Otherwise you're just throwing away some of the important features that are in the hardware.
 
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C64 said:
All power saving features on and adaptive voltage.

Why anyone would leave the power saving off is beyond me.

only reason to turn it off is to avoid false flag bsods when stress testing
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As above. Find max stable o/c - or stop when I am happy with performance- but leave all power saving features and adaptive voltage on. You then get the best of both worlds without seriously impairing the life of the components.
 
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