Couple possibly noobish questions

groovesection · 27 May 2011 at 09:04

I have a couple questions which will probably seem dumb to you guy`s lol

1. When in the BIOS (Gigabyte) does the CPU run @ 100%?
Reason i ask is i have been having fan/noise problems and decided to go in and have a look.
All my voltages are a touch on the high side
Normal VCORE should be 1.400V but BIOS reports VCORE 1.465V (same as HWMonitor)
DDR should be 1.5V but is showing as almost 1.6V
This is only stock, no overclocking/overvolting etc

Are these anything to be concerned with?

2. i noticed i can undervolt my VCORE (but not my DDR only overvolt)
i dropped the VCORE by 0.025V and now its running at 1.37V
Windows booted fine, is it OK to undervolt like this?
I noticed a slight drop in temps too which is a result (2 degrees idle) but will this cause stability problems?

Sorry for what are probably dumb questions. not exactly experienced with tweaking voltages, just FSB for my OC`s in the past.
I am not aiming to OC atm anyway. just curious regarding my 2 questions

Randall8686 · 27 May 2011 at 09:16

the cpu should be @ its maximum clock speed how ever it wont be under any load so it will be pretty much idle.

Yes you can under volt. Its best to do so infact how ever you will get to a point where it either wont boot into windows or you will get a BSOD, you should use a program like Prime 95 to test your cpu when you have changed a setting. If prime runs without a problem for half hour try undervolting a little more then run prime again etc etc the lower the voltage the less heat you will get generated

groovesection · 27 May 2011 at 09:53

Thanks buddy, that has cleared things up for me.
Fires up Prime95 for a torture test

groovesection · 27 May 2011 at 10:07

hmm, temps going way too high for my liking 63 degrees after 10 mins of Prime95 (stock 3.1 undervolt 0.025) which is strange because i had it @ 3.4 before stable Prime95 4 hours @ 1.465 stock vcore
Cannot wait for my Freezer 7 heatsink to arrive, so i can ditch this AMD stock garbage

panyan · 27 May 2011 at 11:27

groovesection said:
Freezer 7

i have the freezer pro 7 heatsink and it is good for stock cpu's, but i personally dont think it can handle heavy overclocks - but try it and see

Randall8686 · 27 May 2011 at 13:14

It will still take way more of a over clock than a Stock cooler, 63c after 10 mins is not that bad tbh on a stock cooler.

groovesection · 27 May 2011 at 23:13

Cheers guy`s,
I am happy enough with the 10% OC i could get on stock but the fan is just annoying audibly.
So the Freezer 7 should give me the 3.4 and hopefully keep the temps under 60 and also be better acoustically
I am not concerned with pushing the CPU to the max, i am happy enough with a 10% increase in clock