Undervolting a thuban 1075t

[Boosted7M]

Now now now, everyone bear with me before everyone jumps on me and tells me that I'm an idiot for doing this. I got an Asus M4A88TD usb 3.0, phenom II x6 1075t,12gb of ripjaws 1600 ram, and a hyper 213 evo for free from a buddy. I currently have the system overclocked to 3.8Ghz and am encoding DVDs as fast as I can (average of about 1hr 50min a piece). The only investment I made was a 3.5" 2TB Toshiba hdd and a 2.5" 1tb firecuda as a boot drive.

I want to run the system at 1.1v which us the minimum voltage allowed by the chipset. Where should I start? I currently use the system at 3.8ghz for encoding, playing games from the turn of the century, and running a plex server. The reason why I want to run it at such low volts is for 24/7 operation. Just looking for advice about getting this thuban system to accomplish what I want.

 

[4745454b]

It's just like OCing, only backwards. Instead of bumping up the voltage as a last resort, drop it down to your desired setting. Test, does everything work? No? Drop the speed down, test. Repeat as needed.

 

[Boosted7M]

It's just like OCing, only backwards. Instead of bumping up the voltage as a last resort, drop it down to your desired setting. Test, does everything work? No? Drop the speed down, test. Repeat as needed.

I understand that and I thank you for you answer, but at let's say 2000mhz is are the thuban cores going to suggle transcode Nguyen for my plex server? I guess I'm more trying to understand the problems underclock in is going to cause.

 

[4745454b]

Reduced performance of course. It's hard to say how bad it will be, it really depends on how much you are asking of it, how many people are trying to stream from it, etc. Transcode speed will tank. If you are at 3.8GHz now and need drop it to 2.0GHz, I would think your time will nearly double. (video coding makes good use of the cores, so it's close to 1:1.) Perhaps set back to stock or best OC setting when you are looking to rip a new Blu ray, etc.

As long as you underclock to the lowest stable voltage you shouldn't have any crashes or anything like that. It will work, just be slower than what you have now.

 

[Boosted7M]

Reduced performance of course. It's hard to say how bad it will be, it really depends on how much you are asking of it, how many people are trying to stream from it, etc. Transcode speed will tank. If you are at 3.8GHz now and need drop it to 2.0GHz, I would think your time will nearly double. (video coding makes good use of the cores, so it's close to 1:1.) Perhaps set back to stock or best OC setting when you are looking to rip a new Blu ray, etc.

As long as you underclock to the lowest stable voltage you shouldn't have any crashes or anything like that. It will work, just be slower than what you have now.

I figured as much. Thank you for your responses. This might be new territory, so I will probably experiment and I might even do a write up on the process and results. I don't know if anyone will care, but it might be worth it for the community.

 

[4745454b]

You don't hear much about undervolting. When you do it's always about saving power, little is done about change in performance. If you get a kill a watt device you can give power figures from the wall.

https://www.amazon.com/BALDR-Electricity-Monitor-Power-Energy/dp/B01JLT8NSG/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1497099701&sr=8-5&keywords=kill+a+watt

Random one I found on amazon in case you don't know what a kill a watt is.