gigabyte load line level?

[SickBeast]

I run mine at "extreme" as I'm pushing for 5ghz. Most people say "high" is good enough on air cooling; they say "extreme" is for more advanced setups. I'm on very high end air and I want the most out of my CPU so that's why I use "extreme".

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Uhmmm..... regarding the idle power, its fine to turn speedstep C1E and all that crap on. I posted a thread about this, and it was almost unanimous that I should turn it on.

Idle frequencies may be higher than before which is why many BIOSes now use an offset voltage from "normal" voltage. Find out what it takes to run at 4.5ghz or whatever, say 1.3V, and if your normal voltage is 1.25V, just run at Normal +0.05V. Thus, it will scale your processor like normal, but add a 0.05V offset.

There's no point in wasting power in running at a full 4.5 GHz 24/7. It might not make the most difference, but for my i7 930, it saves me 20-30 W by letting it ramp down and have the VCore drop.

Honestly, dropping your VCore isn't gonna drop the power that much. It's enabling C1E and C3 and C6 states that will.

 

[Tempered81]

i am OC'ing my 2500k on a gigabyte z68-ud3h board and am a bit confused on some of the bios settings to use (seems every guide has a different opinion), specifically the LLC settings.

i just want it to run at 4.2ghz, so i manually put in 1.25v for the vcore and also set the LLC to Level 5, though i have no idea what Level 5 means...

i do see right now during stress testing the CPU reads 1.26v in cpu-z, so i assume LLC is adjusting volts for some reason? is level 5 okay for my 4.2?

also i read to turn off c1e, c3/c6, and speed step, but don't you want those enabled so that your CPU doesn't run at the OC multiplier 24/7 and instead clocks down to 1600mhz when not in use?

thanks for the help.

Load Line callibration will stabilize the voltage to prevent Vdroop. Vdroop is part of intel spec. I guess the level of it just means how intensely the droop is compensated for.