Asus VII Hero and 4790K - increasing CPU Power Draw?

[chon79]

Hello everyone! First time poster here. I am a complete noob when it comes to overclocking, and thanks to these forums as I lurked quite a bit reading up on overclocking. Huge thanks to everyone that provides very helpful information 🙂

So here is my question. I am currently running an OC at 4.5/1.25v stable. I pretty much only set the multiplier and vcore, and changed nothing else in BIOS. I did notice on my Prime95 testing that Core Temp is showing a power draw of 67 watts under 100% load. I've seen screenshots on this forum of similar overclocks but their power draw is 120+ watts.

How can I increase the CPU power draw in the BIOS settings?

[NemesisChild]

There is nothing you can do to increase the power draw.

120+ watts with a 88w TDP CPU doesn't sound realistic.
And monitoring via software is unreliable anyways.

[gupsterg]

NemesisChild wrote:
120+ watts with a 88w TDP CPU doesn't sound realistic.

Is not 88W TDP if CPU is stock and not OC'd? therefore when we OC we could go over it depending on OC clocks/voltage and what program is used to load CPU?

[gupsterg]

chon79 wrote:
How can I increase the CPU power draw in the BIOS settings?

AFAIK Asus bios defaults for this aspect are ample for OC. From what I can make out your possibly asking about info as seen on page 97 of manual?