38ºc is a good temperature for a cpu.
The only problem is the voltage, he had to use higher voltage to support such overclock, which might reduce the hardware life time, but let's be fair, who ever had a CPU problem? They are usually strong and never burn unless you do some crazy overclock or the local energie burn your whole pc xD
dno about the sandy bridge cpus, but my old E6400 used to have quite low max core temps - and mine ran at 28° idle with a peltier unit.
if you want your cpu/mem/mb to live long, you are better of running prime at least 24 hours and checking temps/errors meanwhile. idle temps are worth nothing.
and you will never notice the difference apart from encoding/decoding, and a part is only as fast as the sum of all parts, so if you dont have 300 euro DDR3 RAM clocked at 1800mhz with a 7-7-7-21 latency it will only go as fast as that too. And if you don't have a super overclocked northbridge same thing. And if you dont have an SSD drive.. same thing :p
38ºc is a good temperature for a cpu.
The only problem is the voltage, he had to use higher voltage to support such overclock, which might reduce the hardware life time, but let's be fair, who ever had a CPU problem? They are usually strong and never burn unless you do some crazy overclock or the local energie burn your whole pc xD
if you want your cpu/mem/mb to live long, you are better of running prime at least 24 hours and checking temps/errors meanwhile. idle temps are worth nothing.
so many things in life are unpractical!
North Bridge VID 1.1000 V
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