My settings for OC and i need some help!!!

[Quakindude]

If you have your CPU Voltage at 3.5 volts, it's going to die in the next 5 seconds.

Hopefully, you meant 1.35v.

The phenomena I mentioned called voltage droop is why you put 1.4v in the Bios and CPU-z only reads 1.36 or so. It's a fairly common experience on motherboards.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by Pbirmingham1988

HAHA i actually bumped up my cpu to 3.5 right now and with orthos its running a constant 54 C - 55 C!! I'm happy about that. I think my CPU CORE is at 3.6v... What's kind of weird though is that i put in 4.5v but it says it only reads 3.6. Then i actually put 3.6 and it put it down to 3.15... Really weird

Do you mean 1.36? Because 3.6 or 4.5 volts would fry your CPU almost instantly...

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

If you have your CPU Voltage at 3.5 volts, it's going to die in the next 5 seconds.

[Pbirmingham1988]

no no lol 3.5 GHZ running at a constant rate of 53 C-54 C. I had to open my front case door to let the air out. I am running it at 1.45v even though it says its at 1.36v

[screwballl]

aha GHz, not V
looks like a good setup there at good temperatures
I would keep the speed about where it is now because if the thermal paste ever gave out or the heatsink got separated from the cpu somehow then that 53C would skyrocket and possibly mess with the cpu (although I would hope the throttling would kick it down before it caused harm)

[Pbirmingham1988]

Well i have been running orthos for about an hour 1/2 now and it seems more than mediocre. It's running at a constant rate of 52 C!! My settings rock n all i did was study the nvidia 680i oc guide and understood the rates at which i was supposed to go. So i then knew how much power a certain voltage should be for either the ram cpu or fsb. everything works out great and u guys are making me sure of myself that im doing it right. It's my first time overclocking any PC. Ive always heard about it but now ive finally done it successfully without ANY problems!! thanks guys

[Capper]

????

I think you are reading that wrong

[Pbirmingham1988]

I am reading it right... Heres a pic
Now can everyone please tell me this is good!!! I also have nvidia monitor running but it says 60 C... I heard nvidia monitor isn't accurate though and that it actually shows an extra 7 degrees

[Capper]

yeah, you were reading it wrong, the Core speed is 3.5GHz, the voltage is probably between 1.3-1.4V......

Ok, you are doing really well, and should be very happy with that OC

[Pbirmingham1988]

Do you think i should make any adjustments to go higher or is 3.5 good enough?