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- i5 6600K
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- GTX 970
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So the various overclocking things I have read talk about the ability to overclock your CPU without raising vCore to a certain extent. Supposedly this is good because you don't use any more power. Maybe I read it wrong and assumed that if you didn't raise vCore you wouldn't use more power?
Anyways, when I overclock my i3 (changing BCLK from 133 to 150, to OC to 3.3 GHz), it changes the core voltage my CPU runs at from an original 0.92-1.20 volts to now 1.02 volts (idle) to 1.27/29 volts (full load). It would seem to me that this would result in more power usage than without OCing it, is that correct?
Is there any way to go about OCing without resulting in more power usage, if this is the case?
Here's a related question as well: when I run Parallels Desktop (v5) while overclocked, the sound goes out of sync, sounding crackly and lagging behind by a couple seconds. As soon as I reboot and reset my BCLK to 133, sound works great in it again. Does anyone have any idea what that's about or how to fix it?
Anyways, when I overclock my i3 (changing BCLK from 133 to 150, to OC to 3.3 GHz), it changes the core voltage my CPU runs at from an original 0.92-1.20 volts to now 1.02 volts (idle) to 1.27/29 volts (full load). It would seem to me that this would result in more power usage than without OCing it, is that correct?
Is there any way to go about OCing without resulting in more power usage, if this is the case?
Here's a related question as well: when I run Parallels Desktop (v5) while overclocked, the sound goes out of sync, sounding crackly and lagging behind by a couple seconds. As soon as I reboot and reset my BCLK to 133, sound works great in it again. Does anyone have any idea what that's about or how to fix it?
