Hi i have been looking for over an hour to find a straightforward answer to this question. I have seen other people ask the same question but in a confusing manor, which turned up varying anwers.
Ok so I have an asus motherboard (m4a88t-m with 1090T Black edition unlocked, 3.2ghz, and rosewill 730w PSU) And i just want to overclock it to a comfortable 3.6ghz by just changing the multiplier to 18x and increasing the voltage from the stock 1.2v to 1.4v
Instead of showing CPU VCORE voltage.. it shows an option called "CPU OVERVOLTAGE"
And i am skeptical that these are NOT the same thing because when I go to change it, it starts at an absurd 0.000035v rather than the 1.2v that i was expecting to see it set at.
When I begin to adjust it, the voltage numbers go up in EXTREMELY small increment, so in order to reach 1.4 volts i have to press + for about an hour.. this worries me. I am thinking that it only goes up in such TINY increments because its main purpose is not to change the vcore voltage..but to simply extend the RANGE of electricity that can be sent to the cpu.
So will CPU Overvoltage just mean that it will allow your cpu to go 0.0000385 volts over the stock 1.2volts that it already provides? (For example if i set it to 0.00000385Volts than will my motherboard now think the max voltage it can send to my CPU is 1.200000385v?)
I am just so scared that if i type in 1.40000V to the "CPU OVERVOLTAGE" Field that instead of setting the vcore to 1.4v it will increase the maximum allowed RANGE to an explosive 2.6VOLTS (1.2v plus the 1.4v i added)
Anyone know?
P.S. Is the stock voltage of the 1090T really only 1.2V? When i go to bios hardware monitor it shows VCORE voltage at a steady 1.200-1.216v. And the same thing shows in CPU-Z. When the amd TURBO BOOST technology kicks in it just shows the multiplier switch from 16x to 18x and the voltage goes from 1.216 to 1.346. So to keep it at a steady 3.6ghz on all cores all i have to do is go into bios, change the multipler to 18, and set the cpu voltage to 1.346 volts right? Or should i set it to 1.4volts to be safe? (And i know to disable turbo boost, c1e and cool n quiet in the bios as well)
Ok so I have an asus motherboard (m4a88t-m with 1090T Black edition unlocked, 3.2ghz, and rosewill 730w PSU) And i just want to overclock it to a comfortable 3.6ghz by just changing the multiplier to 18x and increasing the voltage from the stock 1.2v to 1.4v
Instead of showing CPU VCORE voltage.. it shows an option called "CPU OVERVOLTAGE"
And i am skeptical that these are NOT the same thing because when I go to change it, it starts at an absurd 0.000035v rather than the 1.2v that i was expecting to see it set at.
When I begin to adjust it, the voltage numbers go up in EXTREMELY small increment, so in order to reach 1.4 volts i have to press + for about an hour.. this worries me. I am thinking that it only goes up in such TINY increments because its main purpose is not to change the vcore voltage..but to simply extend the RANGE of electricity that can be sent to the cpu.
So will CPU Overvoltage just mean that it will allow your cpu to go 0.0000385 volts over the stock 1.2volts that it already provides? (For example if i set it to 0.00000385Volts than will my motherboard now think the max voltage it can send to my CPU is 1.200000385v?)
I am just so scared that if i type in 1.40000V to the "CPU OVERVOLTAGE" Field that instead of setting the vcore to 1.4v it will increase the maximum allowed RANGE to an explosive 2.6VOLTS (1.2v plus the 1.4v i added)
Anyone know?
P.S. Is the stock voltage of the 1090T really only 1.2V? When i go to bios hardware monitor it shows VCORE voltage at a steady 1.200-1.216v. And the same thing shows in CPU-Z. When the amd TURBO BOOST technology kicks in it just shows the multiplier switch from 16x to 18x and the voltage goes from 1.216 to 1.346. So to keep it at a steady 3.6ghz on all cores all i have to do is go into bios, change the multipler to 18, and set the cpu voltage to 1.346 volts right? Or should i set it to 1.4volts to be safe? (And i know to disable turbo boost, c1e and cool n quiet in the bios as well)