Qwinn wrote:
Ok, still not sure I'm getting it. Is the suggestion here that you can drop voltage, lose stability, drop it further and get stability back? That would imply that you could raise voltage on your 1.17v OC and actually lose stability.
Well, that's a really terrible way to look at it, but technically accurate/possible.
😉In a complex circuit there is usually a "set" of possible frequencies and voltages that will all function, but given overshoot, ringing, etc... there is no guarantee that this set will be continuous.
That is, it is entirely possible that you can have a system that works from N->M, does not work from M->X and then works again from X->Y where N < Y.
It is also possible for it to function over this entire range, but be more or less susceptible to temperature and load variations over longer spans of time.
Given that, as overclockers, we have zero visibility into the system, we tend to assume and rely upon linearity to fudge through this reality, but now and then this proves to be very, very wrong.
