Is it worth trying to speed up my CPU by changing its settings just in case it gets too slow for me?
Is it worth trying to speed up my CPU by changing its settings just in case it gets too slow for me?
I actually clocked this CPU to 5.0GHz at 1.42v, but then I slowed it down to 4.9GHz at 1.328v because it sat there for six years. The fan bearings broke on the NZXT Kraken X61 (yes, those fans you hate!) after six years of non-stop use all day and night. So I bought a new Cryorig R1 Ultimate for $40. It was loud compared to the AIO (yes, I said LOUDER), so I turned down the overclocking speed to 4.6GHz at 1.19v. The CPU isn't open, but it's only 6 degrees Celsius between hot and cold cores. Anyone who thought keeping batch records after the Ivy-Bridge was a waste of time is wrong. Intel really messed up after Ivy-Bridge. Those tiny 5% boosts in speed per instruction from each generation over the last eight years aren't worth it after that huge jump from 775 to 1156 to 1155. Four platforms and eight CPU lines later, they are just now getting solid 5.0GHz numbers that people used to get back then without having to suffer the hard way alone.
I actually need around 1.42 volts to get a 4.2 ghz speed on my x3470, but these are older processors. I had no issues running vcore at about 1.4 volts for over five years with an i7-870 or i7-875k; there is no performance loss even if the computer runs all day. One thing I am testing now is higher ram speed and higher processor clock speeds. Usually, I keep the vtt voltage below 1.25 volts since 1.21 volts is the maximum Intel recommends for Lynnfield chips. I can get up to 2500 mhz / 205 block with decent timings on my ram at 11-11-11-30, but this needs about 1.325 volts vtt voltage. I am not sure if this will kill the memory controller inside the cpu in the long run. Delidding should drop about 10 celsius degrees on all cores for x3470 and i7-870 etc.
Hah, I got spoilt with Ivy-Bridge and hated the whole 771/775 BCLK OC thing. That was really annoying. Unlike early OCs which used motherboard jumpers, I finally got a Genuine PII 350 OC running at up to 400MHz somewhere else.
I just bought an x58 motherboard and a xeon cpu called x5675, and the whole thing cost me 60 bucks total. I already pushed the speed up from 3.06 ghz to 4.25 ghz for all cores using only 1.30v voltage. This chip is like the lynnfield one but handles pushing harder much better, it has 6 cores and 12 threads. I reached a peak of 225 black from stock 133 speed, uncore frequency at 3.75 ghz. Memory is hitting a limit at 2000mhz. What benchmark do you use maybe we can compare? Maybe i can finally get close to your score with older processor 😀