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Safe volts on a A64?

Viper87227

Viper87227

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Everytime i ask about voltages, I get mixed answers. Bottem line is, my room is fucking freezing, so wiht a Venus 12 @ 5500rpm, my cpu is really cold. I am running my 2800+ (stock = 1.45v, 1.8 @ 400x 9) at 1.7v, 2.3 @ 460x9. It isi totally stable, and I am currently idling at 80F with the fan at 5000rpm. I have monitored temps via both MBM5 and uGuru, so its definatly posting right. I have run it at 1.85V (@ 2.4 (265x9), and I idle at about 100F. What I want to know, is there any risk OTHER than heat when upping voltages. Seeing that I do not have heat issues at 1.85, would it be safe to run at those volts to get a higher overclock, or even with perfectly acceptable temps, coudl other damage occure?
 
I have been told that generally speaking the higher the voltage the shorter the life of the CPU, but that most people dont need to worry about that, because the CPU's are designed to last a good 6-10 years. Basically, I'm not sure what the exact answer is, but you will be significantly shortening the life of your CPU, even at 1.7-1.8.
 
I'd say 1.9-2V is around the max safe provided temps are good.
 
is that recommendation coming from experience? or just your advice? it'd be safer to provide some backup before he fries his CPU
 
z3r0- said:
I'd say 1.9-2V is around the max safe provided temps are good.
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Yeah, dude, my motherboard doenst even go that high, and if the guy before you was right in saying 1.7-1.8 can really shorten the life of your cpu....owuldnt 1.9-2.0 be rather overkill?
 
yeah, but if everyone went by what the industry "recommends" we'd all own FX-53's @ stock speeds and be very, very broke!
 
i had mines at 1.7 stable.. but it wasnt worth the overclock i got .. only 30mhz more for 1.7 instead of 1.6 so i thought it wasnt worth the tiny mhz to up the voltage so much so i leave it at 1.6 and loose 30mhz.. so i would say 1.7 volt should be safe..
 
well...250x9 at 1.65 primed for about 5 minutes, at 1.7, after roughly 24 hours i stopped it, so its perfectly stable. I will run it at 1.7, I should be fine. I found 250 to be my ceiling anyways. Even at 1.85, i counld get 255 to prime for more than 20 minutes.
 
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