Advice on e5300 vCore

[Kribby2006]

Hi All,

Merry Christmas.

Quick questions, I just built a budget rig for my son using the following processor:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-273-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793

I installed the latest version of CPUz and it reports the vCore as 1.8v???

As fas as know, the max for these is about 1.4, is CPUz reading this wrong? All BIOS settings are at default atm.

Thanks,

Krib.

 

[BigBruiserAl]

Take the vcore off auto before it kills the cpu mate. If hes going to run it at stock 1.3v should be plenty

 

[Kribby2006]

Take the vcore off auto before it kills the cpu mate. If hes going to run it at stock 1.3v should be plenty

Ok thanks for the advice, but can we be sure that the CPUz reading can be believed?

The BIOS is kind of basic but does allow for some overclocking, its an ASUS motherboard, micro atx.

I do plan to oveclock it a bit, but only just finsihed installing OS so will take another look when I get home

Thanks again.

 

[BigBruiserAl]

Asus boards do overvolt a lot mind 1.8v is loads lol. you can down load asus probe 2 free that will give you temps and volts as well. not saying its better but you will be able to tell if cpuz is just having a bad day or the Asus board is trying to kill the 5300 lol good luck mate

 

[blaineoliver]

try coretemp.

 

[Kribby2006]

Asus boards do overvolt a lot mind 1.8v is loads lol. you can down load asus probe 2 free that will give you temps and volts as well. not saying its better but you will be able to tell if cpuz is just having a bad day or the Asus board is trying to kill the 5300 lol good luck mate

Thanks again, like you say it seems loads. Ultimately, I will set it maunally just to be sure.

Cheers.

 

[BigBruiserAl]

try coretemp.

Core temp will only give the VID i belive

 

[Kribby2006]

Asus boards do overvolt a lot mind 1.8v is loads lol. you can down load asus probe 2 free that will give you temps and volts as well. not saying its better but you will be able to tell if cpuz is just having a bad day or the Asus board is trying to kill the 5300 lol good luck mate

Hi again, just installed PC Probe 2 and it reports the vcore as 1.15v. Guess I have to believe that.

Cheers for the advice

 

[rxmac]

Might be worth updating the bios, i remember when one of my cpu's wasn't fully supported by the bios it overvolted it a bit, nothing like that though. Updating to the latest bios fixed it.

Just a thought?

 

[BigBruiserAl]

Hi again, just installed PC Probe 2 and it reports the vcore as 1.15v. Guess I have to believe that.

Cheers for the advice

If it was idle mate it prob was in a power saving state(speed step is prob on) you will want to know what it is on load mate try stress it with orthos and have cpuz and probe open and see whats what