BonzaiDuck
Lifer
- Jun 30, 2004
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I would probably just get a bigger SSD,and maybe a faster graphics card down the line.
Your CPU is perfectly fine and probably faster than what 90% of gamers have even today I suspect.
Yeah, the thought of it almost gives me an organism, but I'm old enough to have low-T. :biggrin:
See -- there isn't any voltage threshold line within which your processor is "safe" and beyond which it is "at risk" for reduced longevity. It's a probability distribution, coupled with a natural process by which the CPU degrades, whether you run it at lower or higher voltage.
Based on a consensus here going back to 2011, my load voltage is right at the doorstep, and the unloaded high idle voltage is about 30 mV above that.
But as I understand it, the unloaded high voltage would be much less detrimental, and with EIST enabled, there's not much else except the undetectable and momentary spike in load-to-idle transition.
I was surfing some forum posts going back to 2011 last night. People were speculating all sorts of things about running their Sandy-K chips at these speeds and the voltages above 1.30. People saying "well, it might last a few years." or two or three.
I don't buy it. No need to twist up your Sandy to 1.4V and try to hit 5Ghz, but the processor does not spend a lot of time at those voltages and speeds except for gaming sessions -- unless one is "Folding" or something similar. I don't think my 2.5 year-old Sandy is degraded at all, but I've been running it with a turbo-speed of 4.6 since August, 2011 -- 24 .. 7 . . . (almost) 365 . . .
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