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Alright, so this is my first serious overclock and I'm a bit confused.
I've been slowly stepping up the clock multiplier, stress testing with 10x Intel Burn Test at Very High stress level and gradually stepping up v-core voltage when I encounter instability. At the moment I'm sitting on 46x multiplier with a v-core of 1.37V and as far as I can tell it's pretty stable - Intel burn test x20 at Very high, System Stability test AIDA64 for 20 minutes, a few hours of gaming (I haven't done a full 24hr burn test yet so I'm not 100% sure it's stable, but I want to be sure I have a safe voltage before I do that). Temperatures sit at around [email protected] and [email protected]% with occasional spikes to 87C.
Idle:

Loaded:

Temperatures:


Anyway, after some research, people seem to be saying that 1.3V is nigh impossible with closed loop cooling solutions, but I'm doing 1.37 without any problems. 1.37 also seems to be quite a high voltage for the core speed I'm getting, but any lower and I run into instability... My confusion is compounded by the fact that AIDA64 is reading the voltage as 1.016V which is far too low for the temps I'm getting.

Can someone shed some light on this for me?
I've been slowly stepping up the clock multiplier, stress testing with 10x Intel Burn Test at Very High stress level and gradually stepping up v-core voltage when I encounter instability. At the moment I'm sitting on 46x multiplier with a v-core of 1.37V and as far as I can tell it's pretty stable - Intel burn test x20 at Very high, System Stability test AIDA64 for 20 minutes, a few hours of gaming (I haven't done a full 24hr burn test yet so I'm not 100% sure it's stable, but I want to be sure I have a safe voltage before I do that). Temperatures sit at around [email protected] and [email protected]% with occasional spikes to 87C.
Idle:
Loaded:
Temperatures:
Anyway, after some research, people seem to be saying that 1.3V is nigh impossible with closed loop cooling solutions, but I'm doing 1.37 without any problems. 1.37 also seems to be quite a high voltage for the core speed I'm getting, but any lower and I run into instability... My confusion is compounded by the fact that AIDA64 is reading the voltage as 1.016V which is far too low for the temps I'm getting.
Can someone shed some light on this for me?