[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[jonny_ftm]

You may find this of use - http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...perature-guide
1.4v seems to be the rrecommended line its supposedly dangerous to cross on e8400 but hey 1.5 -1.55 is the one for quads and plenty are running 24/7 high overclocks above that. So the CPU may die sooner but what are talking about here -years,months? In all likelyhood you will upgrade your processor before it dies on you unless you absolutly toast it with insane volts and temps.We are overclocking afterall - as long as I can handle the temps I would give mine plenty more to take it higher but it wont go any higher stable whatever I stuff into it. I have tried numerous times cos 4.0 seemed a nice figure -lol! on air I am idling happily at 35c and prime 60c at 3.6.. I keep seeing post from people on the q6600 o/c thread with a 3.6 o/c complaning about volts being too high below 1.4v and with lower temps - maybe the never tried o/c a B3

I'm not really agreeing this. There's a whole topic on Wolfdale dying or not under vcore higher than 1.40v. When I say dying, it is real degradation expierienced by many people. Some don't, but many do noted it, even on quadcore 45nm CPUs.

You can't compare a B3 Q6600 or even a G0 to a Wolfdale/Penryn. For the Q6600 series, vcore intel specs are 1.50v +/- 5%. For the 45nm chips, it is 1.40v only. I'd take care putting many volts in those frale 45nm silicone parts

[sesdave]

I'm not really agreeing this. There's a whole topic on Wolfdale dying or not under vcore higher than 1.40v. When I say dying, it is real degradation expierienced by many people. Some don't, but many do noted it, even on quadcore 45nm CPUs.

You can't compare a B3 Q6600 or even a G0 to a Wolfdale/Penryn. For the Q6600 series, vcore intel specs are 1.50v +/- 5%. For the 45nm chips, it is 1.40v only. I'd take care putting many volts in those frale 45nm silicone parts

I wasn't comparing them - the temperature link I gave stated the limits that you are quoting. All overclocking is an accepted risk as you immediately move out of manufactures warranty when running above stock - it just depends on how far you as an individual want to push it irrespective of what the stated boundaries are with an accepted risk of the CPU dying/degrading suddenly.