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E6300 C2D - "Wonky" Vcores

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Limp Gawd
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I let my computer sit around for awhile and I watched CPU-Z and CPUID Hardware Monitor. My Vcore almost randomly fluctuated between 1.14V and 1.28V. It's supposed to be 1.28V. My other voltages seem fine. My +12V is 10.37V.

Underclocking the voltage lowers the clock speed of the CPU and I saw in another thread some guy asked about the same thing. Another guy said his CPU was at 1200 and it was supposed to be 1600 or 1800MHz. There was a BIOS feature mentioned that changes the processor speed.

I honestly don't know if this is normal or not. My CPU % usage has been around 60%-70% since I began this message and the Vcore voltage only changed once, suggesting that it might be a feature that underclocks the processor when it's not in use.



I just joined today to figure out how to overclock my proc, the E6300's show serious capability.

I saw a thread guide for recommended heatsinks for Socket 775 processors, anyone have any personal preferences they would recommend for the E6300?
 
Its probably bios/cpu feature like speedstep that lowers the cpu speed (multiplier) and vcore, u can turn it off in bios but i think its good to be enabled.
Your +12v is very low, is it the same in bios?
For a cooler i would say Xigmatek HDT-S1283 or Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme (lot of choices really)
 
10.37v is WAY out of spec. It should be between 11.4 and 12.6v. The closer to 12.0 the better. However, I'd have to say that can't be right. I don't think the computer could boot with that low of a +12v. You need to take a voltmeter (or multimeter) and check the voltages by hand.
 
Motherboard voltage sensors aren't particularly accurate, and HWMonitor shows some spurious voltages for me (my +12V is at 4.13V, in fact!) so I agree that it's unlikely that it's the real voltage. (HWMonitor actually shows two sets of voltages - my other +12V is 11.93V, which is rather more reasonable).
 
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