Do I just pump it to 1.5V and fry my CPU or whay
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@emilis
But... why?
@alyx I want that nice round 5GHz
@emilis
Do you also want that nice smelling blue smoke?
@alyx intel smoke (don’t breathe this)
@emilis
I hope that at least you're using an overpowered cooling solution. At the very least a custom water cooling loop with the AC turned on.
@alyx no custom loop, just an AIO, and at high RPM it was managing 4.9 just fine at 80, not stable tho I already know I can’t properly run 5, just wanna boot and take a screenshot then go back to a stable clock
@emilis
The colder you can keep it the more stable it is. This isn't exactly new overclocking knowledge. And the farther you want to push it, the cooling problem becomes an exponential one to be able to maintain stability. You think extreme overclockers go for liquid nitrogen for no reason?
If you've got 80 under load at 4.9, that could easily mean 90 at 5ghz. Except at that speed, that temperature is no longer a stable one. Even for the short burst of load during boot, you're gonna BSOD because of it.
@alyx Good point actually, shame you can’t get that info on boot. Some of the BSODs have had something to do with memory, so I thought maybe downclocking that (it’s at 3600MHz stock) would help. But I might just set the fans and pump to go at 100% all the time in the software and see how that helps. And create a draft to make the room cool. Let’s see how it goes!
@alyx I mean, a BSOD on boot isn’t a cooling issue, it’d throttle first. And that was 80 under load at 4.9, not idle, that’d be crazy