Discussing CPU upgrades
Discussing CPU upgrades
It seems you're questioning whether the voltage settings are too high for the CPU. You're wondering if pushing 1.6V could damage it and why it's struggling to reach 4.8Ghz.
I set it using auto-voltage in BIOS, which showed the voltage reported by Hardware Info. During benchmarking, I was at 5 volts, but once I noticed that high reading, I lowered the clock speed to 4.7, which still displayed 1.4 volts. Then I reduced it further to 4.5 for overclocking, achieving a stable 1.3 volts. Any higher overclock or lower voltage caused crashes. I’m new to this stuff and would really appreciate any guidance.
Avoid using automatic voltage during overclocking—it often causes unnecessary overvoltage on the CPU. The stability issues likely stemmed from heat, as maintaining 1.5V or higher would be impractical. With that specific CPU, you should aim for 5GHz at 1.4V or lower, which is what most of the 8086K models could achieve.
Yeah I was learning as I went with the overclocking to be fair. The voltage is on a knife edge as I had it at the 1.4 and went for the 5ghz but was crashing like mad with BSODs. To be fair, there's probably a likelihood I did a bit of damage to it learning to overclock. It's also an engineering sample so, testing-wise, I've no idea what was done to it before I got it.
I've never come across an 8086K ES before, and it seems unlikely they exist since the 8086K is just a rebranded version of the 8700K. To verify its authenticity, you'd need to check reliable sources or official documentation. It's wise not to rely on assumptions from a sample that might not match real-world standards.
It seems legit but there's barely any information about it anywhere, hard to speak of the quality of such chips since they're so rare
I think that's why I'm concerned I might have messed up the cooking.