Safe Voltages on Winchester?

[ZobarStyl]

I'm O/C'ing my 3200+ Winchester on a MSI Neo2 Plat, just wondering what kind of voltages others are using for their overclocks, as I'm finally having to up the Vcore (now at 1.5) with my 2.4 ghz o/c...but the temp really hasn't gone up more than a degree or two over stock thanks to my watercooling setup, so do I need to worry about the voltage, since I'm not Prime95 stable over ~2 hours (it was less but I upped the voltage and it took longer, probably needs more but I want to be sure)? Thanks guys.

 

[ZobarStyl]

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[Zambien]

Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
I'm O/C'ing my 3200+ Winchester on a MSI Neo2 Plat, just wondering what kind of voltages others are using for their overclocks, as I'm finally having to up the Vcore (now at 1.5) with my 2.4 ghz o/c...but the temp really hasn't gone up more than a degree or two over stock thanks to my watercooling setup, so do I need to worry about the voltage, since I'm not Prime95 stable over ~2 hours (it was less but I upped the voltage and it took longer, probably needs more but I want to be sure)? Thanks guys.

I'm at 1.55 +8.3% which for some odd reason is coming up at 1.58 on my neo2 plat core center (weird!). My load temps always stay at or below 58 C so I feel this is pretty safe.

And I'm air cooled. You should be able to get that CPU well above 2.4.. that's the mhz I'm running.

 

[ZobarStyl]

Thanks, I also need to check CoreCenter and see what it says, I've been using mostly MBM for temps and CPU-Z for the voltages, CC doesn't seem in line with BIOS temps, but even CC reports me at ~48-49 C for my load temp at 2.4 (from 2.0 stock) so I think I'm fine.

 

[Gnoad]

corecenter like to add about 3-4 degrees idle, as much as 10 degrees on load. I thought i was cooking my un OCed 3000 by hitting 60 degrees, so I downloaded mbm and say it was really 50. I really dont trust corecenter.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: Zambien

I'm at 1.55 +8.3% which for some odd reason is coming up at 1.58 on my neo2 plat core center (weird!).

It is VERY common for a motherboard pointed at overclockers to overvolt a little over what is listed in the BIOS. My ASUS A7N8X was horrible with it. I could ste the voltage to the lowest it supported in teh bios (1.525) and I'd consistently get OVER 1.575v with the occasional spike over 1.6v

This is one of the reasons some people find an overclocker board more stable than like an ECS board and can get better overclocks at "default voltage"... they really aren't at "default voltage" on the enthusiast board, but the cheapie probably is very close to default voltage.

Always check the Vcore independently to verify where you're really at. Don't trust settings in the BIOS.