The Vcore dropped to 1.304 during playing bf1. It sits at 1.312 when I'm on the desktop.these readings ae good from current and max load always lower on idle .
It doesn't drop at all using Intel Burn Test. However battlefield will make it drop to 1.304 every time without fail. I guess what I'm asking is, is it safe to drop by this amount, and will it negatively effect performance in games?Yeah, that looks fine. It'll vary based on motherboard, load line calibration settings, and what you're running. If you were to run something really heavy like Prime95 it'd probably drop further.
Okay cool, if it became unstable would you up to voltage or change the LLC setting?As long as it's stable it's fine.
Cheers!I'd probably just bump the voltage up a tad in that case.
I got the PC as a pre build from cyber power. It came OC'd lower than the Boost clock of 4.6Ghz as it was at 4.3Ghz. Every time I tried to remove the overclock using the profiles they had left on the bios the PC wouldnt boot. So they just suggested changing to clock ratio to 46 which I did today. The voltage hasn't been changed since they OC'd it, so they Shipped it at 1.3V.Is 1.3V the lowest you could get that's stable? That seems a little high for 4.6 GHz.
Also, a 9700K will automatically boost to 4.6 GHz on all cores at default settings. So you haven't really overclocked it at this point.
Tweaktown has a pretty detailed Coffee Lake OC guide if you're interested. https://www.tweaktown.com/guides/8481/coffee-lake-overclocking-guide/index.html
I might mess with it at some point, what voltage would you reccomend trying?It would run cooler and use less power. If you don't care about that then there's nothing wrong with leaving it as is.
What am I best lowering it by per time?No clue, trial and error is pretty much the only way to find out.
Got it down to 1.24v today from the 1.3v it was at. Intel burn test passed on very high setting. Seems to be stable from the games I've played today and it's running cooler. I could probably go further but I don't think I need to.I'd do maybe 10-20 mV, doing quick checks for stability. Once you become unstable start increasing back 5-10 mV at a time.