OC help

I disagree, you will not fry the CPU at 1.48v. We would never configure a system that would do that after that time frame. From our experience from testing so many systems, and from actual people that work with overclocking CPUs, even 1.5v is fine for a long time as long as the CPU is cooled properly. Don't forget, this is a 6 core CPU, not a 4 core. You're spreading that voltage to six units.

I'm not going to get in a debate over this. 1.48v is not going to kill a CPU, nor is 1.5v. On certain occasions, if not done properly, a CPU can get killed, but, a large portion of it is due to other factors that sometimes don't get considered.

Yes, but, every different type of CPU has variables. For example, Sandy Bridge is more sensitive to voltages than Sandy Bridge-E.

After the holiday I am going to call Digital Storm and talk to them about turning the overclock down some. What voltage would be good for the 3960x?

Alex with all due respect, you have your take on it and the oc community has their take on it and everybody in the oc community agrees that the e chips do take more voltage sometimes however 1.48 vcore is very high and will kill the cpu pretty quickly under 24/7 use.

It is for this reason that benchmarkers have the highest ocs but they never keep it that high because vcore that high will kill the cpu fairly quickly.

@hotshot146, as you see in my previous post that has the quote from justin if you stay under 1.4 your cpu will out live your pc itself, between 1.42 and 1.45 its a role of dice it can be within 5 years, maybe longer maybe shorter, at 1.48 and higher you are looking at much quicker death, at 1.5 a year perhaps.

As overclockers we like to balance the oc with the stress of vcore, in short we want the highest oc with the lowest vcore possible, I often notice that users with oc from DS can lower their vcore and keep their oc with a little different settings.

If you search the forum you will find justin (whom I posted earlier) constantly showing others how to lower their vcore and up their oc from DS's settings or if you search you forum you will see rice helping people with do the same.

Tho DS does a good job of oc, there seems to be lot of room for improvement when it comes to fine tuning it, for example you will see Cerebros here with oc of 4.5 and vcore of 1.44, rice helped him have his oc of 4.5 with vcore lower then then 1.4., its a different chip and all but I'm just using it as an example where you can tweak your oc to have better settings.

Call up DS I'm sure they can help you do the same if possible, tho as Alex said your cpu does run warmer and may need more voltage, but that does not mean the stress won't kill it the same under 24/7 load.

Edited by DST4ME - 26 Dec 2011 at 2:15am

It's always going to change depending on the load. You should be perfectly fine.

If I'm not mistaken the 1.65 is within the limit of the ram.

In a round about way, if max temp for core is 100c, then the distance between your load temp and max temps is distance to tjmax (max temp)(Tjunction max).

if your load temp is 70c then distance to tjmax is 30c. (assuming tjmax is 100c)

to test temps you need to load the cpu then check cpu for temps.

to test temps for gpu you need to load gpus then check for temps.

games are not the best way to test cpu temps.

follow my fah guide here, it will stress both cpu and gpu and then you can check temp for whichever you are testing for (or both at the same time).

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Dec 2011 at 5:25pm

Well no matter what, as long as your load temps are below 85c, temp-wise you are good.

is your gpu stable with that kind of oc?

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Dec 2011 at 6:13pm

What did you check gpu with?

Run fah gpu client only and see if it gets to 100% on a work unit.

keep an eye out for gpu's temps using HWMonitor

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Dec 2011 at 6:26pm

Please use hw and make sure you run them till they hit 100% otherwise the cpu/gpu (whichever you are testing) may not get the full stress of fah, each step/percent has different stress load.

Let us know what you get

If it gets to 100% with no errors and max temps are below 85c heck ya, but keep in mind odds are gpu will die faster then if it was not oced.