As stated I wouldn't bother running 5.1 given how much extra voltage is required, keep in mind also that its current that kills a CPU not voltage, 1.45V is ok provided you are only putting light loads on on CPU and not hammering it with Prime95 etc.
After years of experience. It will degrade and get unstable after some years.
I would not squeeze the CPU anymore like i did before. 4.5ghz with the lowest
vCore as possible are still more than enough.
I owned a 4790k for 3 years and it did 4.7ghz with 1.6Vcore with an massive custom WC ...it was an miserable overclocker ...
I selled it and it worked fine all the time. Max temp was in the average 80-90° depends on the time of year summer/Winter.
So what the Heck... It outlasted my circle of CPU life
While we're on the subject of how safe, what do you think of my new setup running folding@home with 90C core temps and 1.27V with package power of around 100 watts 16 hours a day 7 days a week with a brand new 7700K?
I owned a 4790k for 3 years and it did 4.7ghz with 1.6Vcore with an massive custom WC ...it was an miserable overclocker ...
I selled it and it worked fine all the time. Max temp was in the average 80-90° depends on the time of year summer/Winter.
So what the Heck... It outlasted my circle of CPU life
Well okay, apparently the average is a tad less, maybe around 86C? Although today's workday was only non-AVX workload it seems (I do have set an AVX offset so it hopefully limits the heat output a bit when an AVX work unit kicks in)
5.0 @ 1.37V? seriously? i'd be so happy if my 4790k got anywhere close to that speed at that voltage!
as others have said, i don't think that extra 100MHz is doing a whole lot. Personally if you REALLY wanted 5.1GHz, just make the manual changes in the intel xtu program when you need the extra 100MHz, and keep the daily settings at 5.0
Conclusion:
Only with encoding and other CPU only dependat apps will show a more significant difference.
@Gaming there may be a difference if you use a multi-GPU setup, and even there its more dependant
about the particular chip you are using and not the clock as people imagine.
Its not worth to risk degrading your hardware, even if the epeen bonus seems that large
Cheers
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