So I've had my chip for a few years and have never OC'd it until now. I followed the Ivy Bridge Asus guide and I'm trying to run 4.2GHz at 1.2 volts. I started up Prime 95 and hit about 100c in a pretty short time frame. Should I maybe reseat my cooler? I'm using a Zalman CNPS8900 Quiet cooler (it's an ITX build inside a Raven Z case), maybe it's not performing well?
Yea that's not the greatest cooler, especially for Ivy chips like ours that heat up quick.
Give it a reseat and see how it goes, and definitely try to make sure you get whatever clock you're shooting for at the lowest possible voltage needed to be stable.
Deliding would always help, but a better low profile solution is likely going to be your best bet.
If you're really trying to OC that chip I would recommend delidding if you're at all handy with tools. It takes about 10 minutes and a razor blade and if you follow the guide properly you'll have a much cooler chip that will be ready for much better cooling in the future. Ivy Bridge chips tend to overheat with relatively low voltage unless you delid them.
It's not supposed to be very hard, but I understand you not wanting to.
In my case I'm just fine with 4.5, if I got another 200 MHz from delidding it...meh
In your case though the thermals are more important as you don't have a lot of airflow, or a great cooler.
I'd still work on getting the v-core as low as you could stable, it's not unheard of for these chips to run around that on stock volts (though YMMMV)
For me the amt of v-core I need jumps way high for anything past 4.5
Again if you don't want to delid I think you're going to have to see about changing your cooling solution for something that will perform a bit better.
Yeah I'm not aiming for anything crazy, especially in this ITX case. Right now I'd be happy with 4.2GHz. Last night I did a little tweaking, running 1.2 volts makes my temps jump up to high 90s in prime95 and 1.1 causes 4.2 to be unstable, I'm going to mess around with 1.15 tonight and see if I can get good temps and no crashes at 4.2.
For the future I'd definitely consider delidding at some point and maybe upgrading to an NT-06 Pro, seems to be the beefiest cooler you can fit in this case. Just wanna get my money's worth out of this chip
Sounds like a plan man, yea be sure to see what the lowest voltage you can use stable
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