Is my 10900k power supply enough for my needs?
Is my 10900k power supply enough for my needs?
I watched this happen and it all made sense. It's hard to believe we can get that high, let alone hit 5.3 GHz right now. I did some tweaks though, specifically dropping my RAM from 3600 XMP down to 2933 XMP (but turned it off) so everything would boot up cleanly. After that, I kept the CPU running at 5.1 GHz and lowered the voltage to 1.28 volts just to test things out. Turns out it's handling that 1.28 volt range perfectly between there and 1.318 while benchmarking. The temperature stayed around a max of 72 degrees Celsius.
How high is your LLC setting? It stops voltage from dropping too much, but if you go way too high, it can cause problems when the voltage goes back up. Sorry to say that you are using Auto LLC because I cannot tell you exactly which level it is right now. Actually, there shouldn't be a problem since it is only set to 0.3 volts. I wish I knew what the normal setting was for this chip, but it is still very new. Even the Silicon Lottery website doesn't have a full list of settings for all these CPUs yet, they just show one model at a time right now.
Yeah, I tried checking around to see if there are 10900k numbers here. Sadly, no luck yet. The lowest voltage was 1.265v and it got unstable. Even at 1.28v I had crashes during benchmarks again and didn't know why. I switched the memory controller (LLC) from auto to LLC 1. Honestly don't think that made much of a difference since my voltage is still between 1.28-1.318v, but some tests are managing to stay stable now. I'm curious though, I've only been able to run this voltage at this clock speed since I turned down the RAM frequency. I know CPU and RAM work together in a way, but can increasing the RAM frequency affect how much voltage is needed to successfully clock certain speeds on your CPU? Like if you want higher RAM freq, do you need more voltage for the CPU OC (overclocking)? Don't think that makes sense.
I've been reading a lot lately, so I figured the best way to speed up my CPU is probably not using software because the BIOS already has that built-in. I took out all the things from Intel XTU that were on my computer. When I turned it back on with just the BIOS settings, it said my clock was at 5.0. Even when I tried changing it to other numbers like 5.2 or 4.8, nothing worked. My voltage is set to auto and seems fine because whatever frequency I try to set changes that, but the actual clock speed stays stuck at 5.0. After trying everything in BIOS with no luck, I went back to DragonCenter and used the DPC Latency tuner to set my clock to 4.8, then rebooted. It's still only at 5.0. Even though I removed XTU, maybe it just kept some default numbers on my PC?
Did you really remove everything through Add or Remove, or were you just deleting files in File Explorer? You might also run into some strange things with your BIOS if that's why it's acting up.
Yes, I took out all the programs from add/remove lists. Then I checked the MSI support page to make sure my motherboard has the newest version. It says I'm already up to date too. I also looked in Dragon Center and made sure there are no newer updates for me. My computer is a Z490 Mobo which is an MSI Godlike.