Hello. While wandering on forums to find answers to my BSOD issue (more on that later if I can't figure out what's causing it), I stumbled onto something interesting. It's well known that Z270 boards have a tendancy to overvolt CPU related voltages by default, and maybe it's the same kind of thing. It seems that setting PLL OC voltage on manual, and even setting it on default (recommended by the mb) reduces a LOT CPU temperature without - supposedly - any downside, something like 5-10°C. Yay, more room for overclocking, right ? Well it seems that something is off, in IDLE, this might lead to temperature below ambiant on 1 or 2 cores, which shouldn't be possible (perhaps I'm wrong on that part though). Thus people think it might be false readings. Any thought on that ? Would love to get some more OC headroom. PS : I haven't tried yet, I just saw this at work, I'll try when I come home.
It's not possible to bring CPU temp below ambient air temp without "exotic" cooling. In most cases, it's not even possible to get a CPU down to ambient air temp.
Yeah that's what I thought. So you imply that it might be false readings ? I just got back from work and tried it, and it's indeed, insane. In IDLE I lost 3-5°C and under stress I went down from 65-70° range to 55-60° range. If it's not false readings, it's a HUGE gain.
No one even knows if this can cause stability issues, or any kind of damage ? So far I played a lot, ran a few bench, nothing seems out of the ordinary (apart from the fact that I don't go over 60°C now :banana.