Question Getting lower Voltage & Better Clocks with this, is it SAFE?

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I've updated to the latest bios because I have an intel CPU (Sadly)

I've heard that intel failsafe is just there to set all the cpu's on 1.55v so they are stable while gaming, well I never had any problems with my CPU(yet) but I decided to update bios anyway, maybe I've made a mistake.

I played around by limitting my voltage but that would also limit my clocks as well (from 5.3 to 5.0 all core) so I scrapped that idea and now I am back to simply pressing one button, ASUS OC.
It changed those things.

And I've been getting lower temps, lower voltage and higher clocks with this, sometimes upto 5.5Ghz with better stats.

Do I just run with this profile or is there something dangerous that I should be aware of?

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I believe this bypasses Intel's recommendations for safe operation of 13th and 14ht gen chips. The whole idea of those updates was to force the CPU to behave and not damage itself under boost conditions.

I would not use the ASUS OC profiles, but rather the defaults. Then tweak the voltage lower with some offset if you desire.
 
I believe this bypasses Intel's recommendations for safe operation of 13th and 14ht gen chips. The whole idea of those updates was to force the CPU to behave and not damage itself under boost conditions.

I would not use the ASUS OC profiles, but rather the defaults. Then tweak the voltage lower with some offset if you desire.
offsets are often ignored when I set them into the bios. only setting a limit to the voltage actually helps, but that does lower the clocks by 300.