I've read on these forums people who say that sometimes CPU's don't initially react well to increases in their core votage and this can be got around by increasing the voltage over time. How would I go about this? How long do you leave it at one voltage before increasing it. When you increase the voltage is it also wise to increase the FSB at the sametime or wait until the processor get use to the new voltage and do it then? Thanks for any help Si
I'm not concerned about testing the stability of my system just how to get more out of it by allowing the CPU time to adjust to higher voltages. I'm told that this can be done.
Well this isnt something that i have ever been 100% sure on what to do, and i'm no stranger to overclocking. Having said that, the way i understand it is, you would leave the CPU running standard(ish) FSB and multi settings, up the voltage to the limit where you start having instabilities or just below, then run several instances of prime at the same time for an extended period of time. While your at it you may aswell burn in the RAM at the same time, same process just increase the vDimm
Ok thanks. How long do you think I should run prime for? I presume when it's running stable with no errors I then start to up the FSB? Cheers
Well, it should be running stable at the start as you wont be pushing the CPU to its limit, your only making it "get used to" the extra voltage. Run it for as long as you can really, I would say 12 hours at least but its not an exact science, make a judgement call
There is another popular method, which is to first underclock the processor and then increase the voltage-and then run a burn-in wizard. That should do nicely, and be safer
