Goodday everyone,
After recently building my new rig, I started overclocking it. For some reason I believe my cooling isnt working 100%. Let me explain my issue.
My setup is as following
i7 2700K
Corsair H100 WC
Asus P8Z68V-Pro
2x4GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Room temperature 21 degrees celsius.
All this is kept in place in the Corsair.
My current 24/7 clock is 4.8Ghz with a Vcore of 1.37v. All motherboard settings are at stock except for LoadLineCalibration, this set to High, this would be setting 3 of 5.
On the surface this looks pretty nice and I have to say, im pretty happy with it.
My highest temperatures while stressing with IntelBurnTest are 68 degrees. The H100 cooling has 3 settings low/medium/high. In this case it is set to low. I have to admit that setting it to high hardly makes a difference.
If I go to 5Ghz, with a Vcore of 1.40v, LLC set to Ultra High and DIGI+ VRM Phase Control set to Extreme. Its stable. Though I have to set my H100 to high and my temps are somewhat acceptable. Max temps are 72 degrees.
So this leads me to the following, reading around on different websites it seems there are people with a 2600K running Vcore's well over 1.45 with air cooling. You can easily find several systems with 1.5 or higher with air cooling that dont seem to be running into any issues.
I do want to note that my H100 is quite noisy, i can easily hear it of my 6 casefans. Am I just overreacting? Or should I just be happy with what I managed?
Kind Regards,
1nsane
After recently building my new rig, I started overclocking it. For some reason I believe my cooling isnt working 100%. Let me explain my issue.
My setup is as following
i7 2700K
Corsair H100 WC
Asus P8Z68V-Pro
2x4GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Room temperature 21 degrees celsius.
All this is kept in place in the Corsair.
My current 24/7 clock is 4.8Ghz with a Vcore of 1.37v. All motherboard settings are at stock except for LoadLineCalibration, this set to High, this would be setting 3 of 5.
On the surface this looks pretty nice and I have to say, im pretty happy with it.
My highest temperatures while stressing with IntelBurnTest are 68 degrees. The H100 cooling has 3 settings low/medium/high. In this case it is set to low. I have to admit that setting it to high hardly makes a difference.
If I go to 5Ghz, with a Vcore of 1.40v, LLC set to Ultra High and DIGI+ VRM Phase Control set to Extreme. Its stable. Though I have to set my H100 to high and my temps are somewhat acceptable. Max temps are 72 degrees.
So this leads me to the following, reading around on different websites it seems there are people with a 2600K running Vcore's well over 1.45 with air cooling. You can easily find several systems with 1.5 or higher with air cooling that dont seem to be running into any issues.
I do want to note that my H100 is quite noisy, i can easily hear it of my 6 casefans. Am I just overreacting? Or should I just be happy with what I managed?
Kind Regards,
1nsane
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