Hi guys
Just looking for some advice really, i bought myself a new Z77X-D3H board its the 1st board i have ever owned with so many features so bare with me
I have an i5 2500k and i have set the multi to 40, i have turned off the turbo feature but i have left all the speed step etc on auto so it downclocks at idle. I have set the LLC to normal and manually set the vcore in the bios to 1.25v. At idle using easytune and cpuz my vcore is showing 1.235 so im happy there, i ran IBT to see how much it would drop underload and it went to around 1.188-1.200 and passed 10 loops with no probs. I loaded up BF3 and played online with all settings on high and got a steady 60fps which i was happy about. I thought id try the next step to upped the multi to 42 and ran IBT again with the same results with the vcore dropping to around 1.188-1.200 again. It passed again with no issues but this time when i loaded up BF3 the game was really choppy with the fps going from 60 to 50 then down to 35 up to 50 and so on kind of crazy really.
So i was just wondering would the reason for the sudden choppy gameplay be that there was not enough voltage running through the PSU? If so would changing the LLC to a higher level (im guessing the higher the LLC the closer to the actual vcore it would be?) would that give me back smoother gameplay instead of upping the voltage itself 1st? Im thinking i dont really need to up the voltage to say 1.3v for it to droop to 1.25 underload do i? I might as well use LLC to keep the voltage closer to what i have set?
Hope someone can shed some light on this for me
Thanks again
Liam
Just looking for some advice really, i bought myself a new Z77X-D3H board its the 1st board i have ever owned with so many features so bare with me
I have an i5 2500k and i have set the multi to 40, i have turned off the turbo feature but i have left all the speed step etc on auto so it downclocks at idle. I have set the LLC to normal and manually set the vcore in the bios to 1.25v. At idle using easytune and cpuz my vcore is showing 1.235 so im happy there, i ran IBT to see how much it would drop underload and it went to around 1.188-1.200 and passed 10 loops with no probs. I loaded up BF3 and played online with all settings on high and got a steady 60fps which i was happy about. I thought id try the next step to upped the multi to 42 and ran IBT again with the same results with the vcore dropping to around 1.188-1.200 again. It passed again with no issues but this time when i loaded up BF3 the game was really choppy with the fps going from 60 to 50 then down to 35 up to 50 and so on kind of crazy really.
So i was just wondering would the reason for the sudden choppy gameplay be that there was not enough voltage running through the PSU? If so would changing the LLC to a higher level (im guessing the higher the LLC the closer to the actual vcore it would be?) would that give me back smoother gameplay instead of upping the voltage itself 1st? Im thinking i dont really need to up the voltage to say 1.3v for it to droop to 1.25 underload do i? I might as well use LLC to keep the voltage closer to what i have set?
Hope someone can shed some light on this for me
Thanks again
Liam