Excellent! So it seems you just need a little more cooling, unless you can get away with lowering Vcore some.
My box is a 20-year old thing I've kept upgraded over the years. I've added fans to it, so now I have total 5 fans, including the PSU (Thermalake 700w), all blowing out of the box. Then I use clear plastic and create a duct from my CPU fan to the empty 5-1/4" bay in the front. I've replaced the bay faceplate with a screen. CPU fan is forced to suck (almost) only cool outside air; and the other fans are all forced to suck through the CPU radiator because there is no other air opening in the box.
The thermal paste job is pretty critical. I toss what came in the CPU box for a tube of high-silver content paste I found once in a store (an actual brick store with computers!). I've had to re-do my paste job before, and saw my CPU run in the low 90s after not being able to cool enough before. So it does make a difference. I try to use the absolute thinnest film of paste I can manage to apply with uniformity. Then I progressively torque the bolts down around the radiator, in 2 passes.
I wish you a happy outcome.
Oh... my Vcore also spent most of it's time at 1.476. Peak was 1.488 but I never actually saw it hit that value. I'm using that as a target... whenever I set something else (like VCCSA) which changes the peak Vcore value... I change the setting to get back to 1.476 peak run-time.
im not that worried about the Vcore reading in HWiNFO64
i know that the VR VOUT is more accurate, and thats between 1.33 and 1.44 which is not that high but not that low either
its also the first time that my cpu actually went to town on wattage draw at 170w, at 4.9GHZ all core the max that i saw was 135w with turbo power limits off
ill keep testing tomorrow after I come back from work
so far I only tested csgo and it was stable, but its not a really good benchmark since it doesn't put a heavy load on the cpu or gpu
my gpu usually caps at 2085MHZ and I was able to push it to 2150-2160MHZ and the memory to 8000MHZ at 50-55c but the memory is the same in all games
ill try playing with the vcore and both llc settings tomorrow
I really what to thank you for the settings and guide, it was really helpful
both you and the homie fray_bentos, you guys helped me alot
if I'm using the auto vcore preset instead of override, my pc would last about 30 seconds before crashing - and thats in the desktop, unless I pump medium-ish voltages into the cpu like 1.4 which the llc changes to 1.43-1.44, not that bad but a bit high for me
I think ill end up lowering my voltage and maybe ring ratio too and if that wont help ill go back to 4.9GHZ but on Override vcore to see if I can get a lower voltage, after all my 10900K upgrade is planned to 4-5 years from now so i need that 10600k alive
