I want to start using my old i7 3970x system parts again on my hdtv because pandemic shortages and all that and to be honest it still plays new games good.
, I took off it liquid cooler parts to use on the newer cpu because I found a free air cooler for it with a sucky fan that I will replacing and using better paste I kept it at 4.3ghz for a long time. I decided to bump it up to 4.5ghz
I also want to underclock it to preserve it’s life span longer reduce heat so I have been using bios “offset mode” of 0.040 it seems stable I ran 3 runs of lin x and some prime 95 it passed with out errors
so I get this max voltage 1.320 that is under the max spec of intel spec of 1.35 ( am I measure this correctly because some list only 3 numbers and others do 4 when they measure voltage)
is this long term safe? If I am understanding these offset mode instruction correctly I just lowered it voltage and over clocked it more. It was in manual mode and was set to a constant 1.350 now it drops below that when idle.
https://rog.asus.com/foru...e-for-CPU-Core-Voltage it hits 85 to 86 in only the most intense workloads like this if I crank the fans up it starts dropping fast but it is loud so I dont keep it that high.
Also i am testing during a major weather heat wave and the AC is cranked up but i think it still might be hot in here..
also i don't see that much difference in top temp from 4.0ghz to 4.3ghz to 4.5ghz i tried all 3.. 4ghz hits around the same temp as 4.5ghz..
post edited by Cube X - 2021/06/13 17:56:42
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