E6300 at low voltage

[TridenT]

I am not sure what the stock voltage is of the E6300 is... But right now in my bios I set the voltage for my vcore to 1.2275v I believe. Somewhere around 1.22v-1.23v. I have overclocked my E6300 to 2940mhz though.. Am I runny any kind of risk by doing this? Right now in Asus PC Probe II it says 1.18v for Vcore while running Orthos. CPU-Z says 1.176v.

Just curious if I am running any kind of risk here..

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Just curious if I am running any kind of risk here..

No, except you'll be hindering your overclock by not running it at a higher vcore. 1.3625v is considered stock voltage, BTW.

 

[TridenT]

Hindering...??

 

[INM8]

What he is trying to say that if you had a higher vcore then you would be able to overclock further. Therefore by setting your vcore so low, you are limiting your potential overclock. But if you are happy with it running at 2940mhz, which is still pretty good in my books, just keep it running like that. YOu may want to run prime95 for a day or so though, just to make sure that the low vcore isn't going to cause any stability issues,.

 

[TridenT]

Can I just run Orthos instead? It is a lot easier to deal with than Prime95.

 

[INM8]

Yeah that should be fine. All you need is something that stresses your CPU.

 

[thilanliyan]

Running at almost 3GHz with such a low vcore is pretty damn good. It takes 1.375v to get my E6400 to 3.4GHz, and passed that it's diminishing returns. I say up the voltage to about 1.325 (this is stock I believe) and see how far you can go. It looks like you got one nice OCer.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: thilan29
I say up the voltage to about 1.325 (this is stock I believe) and see how far you can go. It looks like you got one nice OCer.

That's what I thought I had typed. I'm not sure where the 6 came from in my first post. thilan29's correct, 1.325v is stock. Sorry if I caused some confusion.

 

[n7]

As i have said before, there is no set stock vcore.

If you read thru the Intel whitepapers though, you should find that the mention 1.3625 is maximum vcore @ stock (since it's variable).

On my E6300 box, it does state 1.35V max, so i'd say max is right around there