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Unintentional Overclocker?? Help!

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Could someone help me understand this? I'm not an over clocker but wouldn't mind my system running a little quicker if it's not being overtaxed but it would seem ASUS is taking the overclock thing out of my hands? In CPU-Z my core voltage fluctuates slightly from .856 to .920. (Hardware monitor in the BIOS says 1.20V) Core speed is 3474 MHz but also fluctuates very slightly up and down. Same with the Multiplier X26 to X25. Bus speed is 133.6 and QPI link is 2405.1. Are these values supposed to fluctuate a little and why is the core speed 3.47 when I haven't overclocked anything?
The only thing I've done is set the AI Overclock Tuner to XMP as instructed by the Tech guy at G.Skill. All other values are set to Default AUTO. Even if I set the AI overclock tuner to Auto and put my RAM timings in manually CPU-Z still shows 3475MHz core speed? Memory is running at stock speed and 1.5V.
Thanks for the help.
Jim
 
Yeah don't worry about it- Your voltage is fine. The multiplier, voltage and frequency changes depending on load because of speedstep and C1E (bios features that can be tuirned off). These chipsets have a boosting feature (turbo) as well that bumps up the multiplier when turned on- it's a good thing. If people are doing serious overclocking they tend to turn off speedtep and C1E, but for normal use, they save power, heat, etc.
 
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Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate the help. So is my CPU really running at 3.5GHz? (3476MHz) Its supposed to be 2.8GHz. I've got a good cooler but will my CPU live as long as its supposed to at this speed? I'm not nervous about it but still a little confused as to why this is?
Jim
 
That heatsink you have is just fine. If your running everything stock then your stock cooler is supposed to cool enough to run to spec, so your current cooler shouldnt be a problem.

Your i7 chip has a "turbo" boost function and is running 3.5ghz (depending if your task is demanding the extra grunt on a single thread) and the chip should perform for years to come if you just put it together and ran it out of the box like it was intended.
 
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Thanks for the reply. Well other than setting the memory to XMP and the controllers to AHCI I haven't done anything. Nice to see things work correctly from time to time!
Jim
 
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in theory, when you overclock your chip, you cut some of its life off

in reality, the amount of life you've cut from your CPU is negligible, because by the time your cpu dies, you'd be in desperate need of a new cpu/mobo/computer in general.
 
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