[Devilmaypoop]

So, I'm at 3003mhz with 10.5x multiplier and 286 bus speed and currently at 1.15vcore. Just wondering can undervolting cause harm to your cpu? So far it's stable.

 

[MrTOOSHORT]

Nope, you are ok bud.

 

[Ipwnnubletz]

No harm at all. Now go find that sweet spot

 

[jjjc_93]

Not at all mate, aslong as it's stable than it does nothing at all to your CPU - infact it lowers heat and may even lengthen the life span of your chip.

What I would do though is make sure the CPU goes through a good stress test to make sure it really is dead stable, the last thing you want is an unstable system.

Prime95 will be a good place to start, with atleast a 12 hour test and I find gaming can give the CPU a good stretch aswell, I've had games crash my system when P95 couldn't before.

If it passes through all that, then you're all good

 

[Devilmaypoop]

Okay, all I needed was answer to that one question. Thx and rep.

I'm running so high bus speed because I want higher NB speed because this board doesnt have unlocked NB multiplier.

 

[quadx]

I've never undervolted. But I would say at least 3 days torture test.

 

[amd-dude]

Yea a bigger gain would be increasing the cpu-nb as much as possible...memory bandwidth shoots up when you do so and you get much more real world advantages, the system just feels that more snippy.

What you can do is, go to 1.2v and see what you can get on that voltage.

 

[tsm106]

You don't need to do 12 hr primes to prove stability imo. You can run crysis or load furmark on top of prime for an hour. That combo usually flushes out a weakness for me.

I've got [email protected] at 1.2v also. They're flexible chips.

 

[Devilmaypoop]

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Originally Posted by amd-dude Yea a bigger gain would be increasing the cpu-nb as much as possible...memory bandwidth shoots up when you do so and you get much more real world advantages, the system just feels that more snippy.

Indeed, it's about as fast as it was at 3.5ghz/2.5ghz 1.313v with 3ghz/2.86ghz 1.150v now. It's also about 10C cooler.