Voltage and cold

sdumper · 12-12-2006, 11:34 AM

Is there a rule of thumb or anyway to calculate the max safe voltage for a chip at frozen temps?

Example: If I choose to run a e6700 at 4.4ghz and 1.64 vCore 24x7 at -25 to -35c temps will I risk damaging the chip?

How can this be calculated? Links to other sources of info is fine.

LittleDevil · 12-12-2006, 12:40 PM

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Example: If I choose to run a e6700 at 4.4ghz and 1.64 vCore 24x7 at -25 to -35c temps will I risk damaging the chip?

No problem at all.

Regards

njkid32 · 12-12-2006, 12:47 PM

The way I see it is as long as your at negative temps 1.6-1.65v are fine running 24/7.. besides how long do we actually keep these cpu's

sdumper · 12-12-2006, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by njkid32

.. besides how long do we actually keep these cpu's

LoL never long enough

BTW: Im still pursuing the other item we talked about but Christmas is tough for selling HardWare

epion2985 · 12-12-2006, 02:58 PM

the only people that know enough about the chip to calculate that are the amd engineers, all we can do is guess, ballpark and make linear approximations from previous experiences.

jinu117 · 12-12-2006, 03:11 PM

And side by side comparison with our respective load tester, etc.
Which isn't 100% all the time thanks to HUGE variances on each CPU... -_-;
It's tricky thing to figure out for sure.