Hello everyone!
It's been a hot minute since the last time I sat down and tried doing some OCing – Last time I wasn't very successful and just left my settings at stock, this was late 2021 when I got a Deepcool AK620.
Recently I got a new cooler, the Corsair Nautilus 360 RS and thought why not give it a go again?
While looking around, I couldn't find exact info about a couple of questions that rose during the proccess, so I am hoping some of you could help me with this, any help is greatly appreciated.
First, PBO Limits. I currently have my PBO Set as follows:
PPT 142W
TDC 100A
EDC 140A
CO Curve
Core 1 -25
Core 2 -25
Core 3 -20 (Second Best)
Core 4 -25
Core 5 -25
Core 6 -15 (Best Core)
+200 Mhz Boost
OCCT 30 Minutes Extreme variable load AVX2 passed, but it reached 80C.
CB26 30 Minutes Stability test passed, but the temps were around low 70s.
Saw now WHEA errors, but the catch is that I am going through an unusually cold winter here. My room temperature might be fluctuating in the low 20s as of right now, and it should stay around so during the day, I do not have an exact thermometer to tell.
The usual temperatures I see here is over 30C outside, normally 33 with 35 peaks during the day.
Assuming a 35C day, the OCCT test would've reached 95C which I believe is too close to the sun, I added a screenshot of the fan curves during the test, with the CPU fan at around 70% speed (and being a wee bit noisy at that).
There's 4 120 Noctua Redux in my case, a Cooler Master TD500 Mesh. 3 in front as intakes, 1 in the rear as exhaust (also not sure if I should keep the rear one as exhaust as I feel it might just starve the CPU cooler close to it).
So the question is – do I push through those temperatures, or is those PBO settings way too high for daily driving?
If I must decrease PBO settings, where to begin? Decrease all settings by 5 and test for stability?
I tested the current settings in both GTA V and Cyberpunk as well, had no crashes in either playing about 2 hours each.