my motherboard is a msi-p55-cd53 i started overclocking this thing as soon as i had windows installed. and it always showed 1.38 vcore set on auto. to get more speed i uped the voltage +.100 and the voltage went down. seemed very strange to me come to find out at stock speed while updating my bios the voltage was 1.15 the motherboard was uping the voltage for me when i overclocked. to get to the 1.4 that i wanted i have to go +.300
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Voltages
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for me CPU-z never reports that correctly
When i had manually set mine to 1.4 it would show 1.32 in windows. So dont rely on that.
When i had manually set mine to 1.4 it would show 1.32 in windows. So dont rely on that.
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I'm not far off in CPUz , BIOS is at 1.43, Windows shows 1.42
ASRock OC Tuner (included) reads it same as bios, but I think its just reporting the bios settings, not real time
Did you adjust the vDrop setting? Bunch of different mobos have a setting that tries to stabilize the votage, that may help
Anyone got any numbers on safe voltages tho, or other voltages we can up besides those in the 3 step guide?
I'm trying to get 4.0 stable, had to back down to 3.9 with 1.43 on the CPU, I want to know how much more room I have to go before I can call it quits for safety reasons
(PS, 67*C tops at full load 3.9Ghz)
ASRock OC Tuner (included) reads it same as bios, but I think its just reporting the bios settings, not real time
Did you adjust the vDrop setting? Bunch of different mobos have a setting that tries to stabilize the votage, that may help
Anyone got any numbers on safe voltages tho, or other voltages we can up besides those in the 3 step guide?
I'm trying to get 4.0 stable, had to back down to 3.9 with 1.43 on the CPU, I want to know how much more room I have to go before I can call it quits for safety reasons
(PS, 67*C tops at full load 3.9Ghz)
That's most likely because of Vdroop. Your actual Vcore is closer to what CPU-Z reports than to what you set in the BIOS.
good to know