If I turn up my CPU speed but don't add more power (voltage), will it get damaged quicker or stay okay like before?
If I turn up my CPU speed but don't add more power (voltage), will it get damaged quicker or stay okay like before?
Hello, I have an A8-5600K (motherboard is asrock fm2a58m vg3+ r2.0) and I ran it with Over-Clocking at 4.2 GHz using stock voltage of 1.26 volts (turbo boost turned off, non-buffered memory at 1.5 volts at 1.1). I tested it and the CPU seems okay so far, but is this safe for the processor?
I would say you're looking pretty good. You're nowhere near your tMax and there doesn't appear to be any throttling, which would indicate that temps are too high, so all good. To go back to your original question though, my answer seems a bit vague. In actuality, if you increase your clock speed, without increasing voltage, yes it will degrade your chip faster even though you haven't raised voltage, because your processor is still doing more, which requires more power. Voltage allows your processor to have the power to use. But the degradation, at stock voltage, as long as your temps remain fine, is so negligible that you shouldn't even worry about it. Cheers mate
It's not going to break down quicker just because it gets used up. Things like how hot things get or how much electricity they take will affect that. If you watch those numbers closely, you won't need any more worry about the parts getting old or failing. So what is your temperature doing right now?
Hey Rambo, in AMD's OverDrive program, they say it's the top app for checking CPU temperatures. When you're doing nothing (idle), there is a big gap of about 50 to 60 degrees between heat and limit. But when you max out power at 100%, that safe margin drops down to roughly 25 degrees.
Okay then, I don't know AMD or your exact setup yet but what is the highest heat limit for your processor? It looks like online it says 74C for tMax so you're running pretty cool at about 15C right now. Please download CoreTemp to check your temps; it's super accurate and shows real temps instead of margins to max temp. Tell me what CoreTemp says. I hope this helps!
I want to check my CPU before I start the stress test. The link shows the picture from before. Then you can see the picture after. Before I even started, the temperature was about 5 degrees Celsius, which sounds too low. In GTA V using MSI Afterburner, it says my CPU is around 32 degrees Celsius, but that feels weird to me because I already thought the real numbers were wrong. My cooler is a DeepCool IceEdge Mini FS2.0.
I would say you look pretty good. You are not hitting your tMax and there doesn't seem to be any throttling, which means the temps are probably okay. But if you want me to answer a specific question, that might be too vague for now. Actually, if you speed up your clock without raising voltage, yes it will degrade your chip faster even though you haven't changed the voltage because your processor is doing more work and needs more power. Voltage is what lets the processor use its power. But at normal settings, as long as the temps stay fine, this damage is really small so you probably don't need to worry about it. Cheers mate