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Kenlee, I agree with your assessment that you simply had an unstable overclock. That is assuming that when you ran Prime95 that no cores shut down on you. The reason your CPU speed went to 3.8 during Prime is your CPU has a stock speed of 3.4 and a Turbo speed of 3.8. What that means is normal usage, your CPU will run at 3.4, but when stress is put on the CPU it will ramp up to 3.8. It was designed that way. When you overclock it, you are actually only overclocking the Turbo speed, unless you have disabled it in BIOS, which I don't recommend. At idle, it should drop down to 1.6 GHz and the Vcore should drop to 1.0V roughly. That is assuming you are using offset voltage in NIOS. If you have it set to Manual , the CPU will still drop to 1.6V at idle but the Vcore will not drop. That, to me, is a waste. If you are simply reading email and working on a Word document for example, why pump that much voltage through your CPU, when it does not need it and creates much more heat.
Don't worry about the time lag between posts. real Life gets in the way for all of us. I would be happy to help you with your overclock, but that would ruin your warranty with Scan. If your system runs OK at stock, I would get back with Scan and advise them that the overclock they have is unstable and you would like a stable overclock using offset voltage and not manual. That is just a little more difficult, but it is the way the CPU was designed to work. It's more energy efficient, easier on the CPU and will make it run much cooler during normal usage. That is the way I run my CPU and I can run at 5GHz daily if I want to with no problems. I usually don't, but have and can. Simply because the speed of the CPU drops much lower frequency and voltage when not needed, but will quickly ramp up when put under stress. Having said that, I seriously doubt your CPU will do that plus you don't have the cooing for it, but you should be able to run a nice 4.5.
Last edited by essenbe; 04 Jun 2014 at 08:30.
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