Originally Posted by nightcracker
I'm going to try to underclock my CPU a bit. What should I lower first, voltage or clock speed(I'm a complete noob with over/underclocking)?
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I'm no expert, but the way I've always thought about it is the following (though I could be completely wrong so if someone knows better, feel free to correct me):
Increasing the clock speed will make you computer run faster, decrease stability, and not really affect temps that much.
In order to get the stability back, you have to increase the voltage, and this is what causes the temps to rise.
So basically, you'd want to lower both. I think the idea is to run on the minimum voltage possible that doesn't cause your computer to crash.