Voltage tweaking
So, your PC is rock-solid stable but there's an awful lot of hot air coming from the exhaust fan. What can you do?
Well,
this section is for those of you who want to keep their overclock but
would prefer to reduce the heat output just a little.
This involves little more than common sense and a process of elimination.
First, anything voltage-related that's set to Auto, simply change manually to its lowest value.
Do
this one item at a time, test for stability and then do another.
Otherwise, if you adjust a few things together and the system turns out
to be unstable, you'd have to guess which of the changes is causing
the problem.
A boost to Vcore is probably the biggest source
of heat increase. But, unfortunately, when you overclock, you will
generate extra heat, even if you don't add extra voltage.
Nonetheless, you can try to reduce the amount of Vcore that you use.
Simply
drop the Vcore to whatever you think and then test with
Orthos/Prime/SP2004. If the PC fails, then more Vcore is needed, simple
as that, so try upping the Vcore in single notches until stable again.
You can always back off the FSB but that kind of defeats the object of all the hard work we've just done.
There's a trade off between temperatures and performance and you're the only person who can decide what's best for you.
