What Vcore reading is right

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 17:45

P5N-E sli mobo.
In the bios i have set 1.4v+1
CPUz says 1.213v
Coretemp says 1.325
SANDRA says 1.325
Temps are v good atm
42C during Orthos

Raikiri · 17 Feb 2007 at 17:54

CPOU-z always says 1.213 and the other two are listing the default voltage of the chip... so none of them

neil27 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:03

Who knows

1.29v+1 in the bios

CPUZ 1.376
coretemp 1.325
speedfan 1.38

@ idle

and the mystery continues :rolleyes:

Brizzles · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:11

As my " experience " goes theres no accurate way to get an absolute Vcore reading.

You'll just have to go by software or Bios settings and watch the temps.

Fluctuation in your PSU ( i.e +/- 5% ? is going to vary this , unless you have a rock steady PSU, and a faultless power supply from the national grid ! )

Always watch the temps.

** If in doubt , don't push it **

Mark

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:21

Temps have maxed at 44C during Orthos with the 2x120mm rad fans on 35% in Speedfan.
PSU is a Seasonic 500W model
+3.3 - 3.1
+5.0 - 4.87
+12 - 11.84
all under Orthos load.

Brizzles · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:29

Here are my rails, from the much criticised Hiper 580 modular :

3.3 rail - 3.25
5.0 rail - 5.05
12 rail - 12.21

( Readings taken from MBM 5 )

Steady as a rock for 12 months

Mark

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:34

mrdbristol said:
Steady as a rock for 12 months

Mark

You mean it hasnt exploded in 12 months

Mine were read from Asus Probe 2

WJA96 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:37

mrdbristol is correct. The monitoring chip on the P5N-E is an ITE IT8718F-S and frankly, it's not very good. To get proper voltages you need to use a voltmeter. The readings are pretty linear though - so if you start off with a setting of 1.0V in the BIOS and it reads 1.1V in CPUz, then usually if you set the BIOS to read 1.1V, CPUz will read the extra 0.1V and show 1.2V and so on. You also have to compare apples with apples on the loading - you can't compare the voltage at idle with the voltage under 100% load for example. Voltages aren't usually a problem anyway as the processor will just overheat and shut itself down. It's quite a leap of faith, I know, but usually, if you can cool it, it will usually run quite happily without reducing the lifetime of the CPU. RAM is different in my experience. I've killed RAM with over-volting and extreme temperatures.

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:46

WJA96 said:
mrdbristol is correct. The monitoring chip on the P5N-E is an ITE IT8718F-S and frankly, it's not very good. To get proper voltages you need to use a voltmeter. The readings are pretty linear though - so if you start off with a setting of 1.0V in the BIOS and it reads 1.1V in CPUz, then usually if you set the BIOS to read 1.1V, CPUz will read the extra 0.1V and show 1.2V and so on. You also have to compare apples with apples on the loading - you can't compare the voltage at idle with the voltage under 100% load for example. Voltages aren't usually a problem anyway as the processor will just overheat and shut itself down. It's quite a leap of faith, I know, but usually, if you can cool it, it will usually run quite happily without reducing the lifetime of the CPU. RAM is different in my experience. I've killed RAM with over-volting and extreme temperatures.

Cheers matey
I think my mobo is under volting thats all, the low load temps are a decent indicator although my Water cooling helps.

Brizzles · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:46

pegasus1 said:
You mean it hasnt exploded in 12 months

Mine were read from Asus Probe 2

No, i mean its a very good PSU and i won't be changing it .

If you follow the trend of "Hiper slating" without actually using one then thats up to you.

I won't even start to look for other makes of PSU that fail, that is very old history.

Mark

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 19:21

mrdbristol said:
No, i mean its a very good PSU and i won't be changing it .

If you follow the trend of "Hiper slating" without actually using one then thats up to you.

I won't even start to look for other makes of PSU that fail, that is very old history.

Mark

I was being sarcastic, should have used this

instead.
Not a PSU basher mate.

Brizzles · 17 Feb 2007 at 21:31

pegasus1 said:
I was being sarcastic, should have used this instead.
Not a PSU basher mate.

My apologies , nothing personal, just kinda get fed up with people who trash an entire brand of equipment ( due to a small percentage of failures,which are covered by guarentee ) on a few examples.

Their was an Enermax , in a recent post , that blew/failed but you don't see me posting about it............er, doh

Cheers,

Mark

The Laughing Ma · 18 Feb 2007 at 02:22

Maybe us happy Hiper 580 users should band together and start some sort of movement, huh Mr Bristol?

pegasus1 · 18 Feb 2007 at 07:38

The Laughing Ma said:
Maybe us happy Hiper 580 users should band together and start some sort of movement, huh Mr Bristol?

Like the Tagan Peoples Front or the Popular Front of Tagan

Brizzles · 18 Feb 2007 at 12:15

The Laughing Ma said:
Maybe us happy Hiper 580 users should band together and start some sort of movement, huh Mr Bristol?

What a stupid idea !

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17694486

Mark

pegasus1 · 19 Feb 2007 at 08:54

Now your started it.
"Tagen owners against ticking unite"