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The price of higher voltages is higher temps and higher power usage - the benefit is stability at a higher speed.
The price of higher voltages is higher temps and higher power usage - the benefit is stability at a higher speed.
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Re: LLC Inquiry
One more comment form me:
Don't worry about idle! 1.424V is perfectly fine, look at some dedicated overclocking forums (e.g. Xtreme Systems) and you'll see people running their 65nm CPUs at higher voltages, most will also not use loadline calibration on dual cores, so the voltages they list are load voltages and their idle voltages are higher.
You will almost never see a thread about a CPU dying from "normal" overclocking (but quite a few deaths resulting form crazy stuff like dry ice or even liquid nitrogen sessions at 1.6+V).
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Absolutely. My E4300 ran at 1.425 from its arrival for 6 months, then 1.45V for a further 13 months. It is now no longer overclocked but still running to this day (and now in a 24/7 system) at the grand old age of 25 months.Comment
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