I have a NZXT H510, ROG STRIX Z490-E mobo, Intel i9 10850K, EVGA TX 3080, 64gb corsair ram, and a MSI MAG CORELIQUID 240r. I set the Al overclocking tuner to XMP1, manually override the voltage to 1.195, set the core ratio to sync all cores with a max frequency of 4500MHz and set the ddr4 to 3100MHz. I did this slowly to find a sweet spot. At stock settings I was running Cinebench R23 on 100 degrees celsius easily and throttling. Now I’m running Cinebench at 90 – 93.
My temps went down about 7 – 10 degrees but here’s the question. I was monitoring my core clocks and noticed they are all at max freq during idle when I start up my pc, then they go down but often spikes up to max at times for seemingly no reason. Before you say it, yes my power settings is set to balanced and I set minimum cpu task to 35% and max to 100%. Also when I play games the cores are all locked to max freq. Even when playing games like Minecraft that doesn’t require much. I mean I would expect it on a graphic intense game like Ark: Survival Evolved, which I play a lot but Minecraft? Idk, everything runs smooth, my games run smooth, the temps are low but is this healthy for my PC, will my PC last longer because of the lower temps and the fact that it’s undervolted and not allowed run at its actual max of 5200MHz? Or will it last less because it’s constantly running at 4500Mhz when playing a game or doing something like rendering videos and making music? Will this kill my PC?
Should I even be doing this? Am I doing this right?
Please help!