CPU vcore different to bios?

liamcrane

liamcrane

liamcrane

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Hi guys

Im trying to overclock my new i5 2500k on my Z77X-D3H board and im just a little confused having never owned a gigabyte or intel product before.

I have upped the multi in the bios to 40 so my cpu is showing as 4ghz when not in idle as i have all the downclocking settings etc on auto. I have set the vcore to 1.25 in the bios but when i load up my desktop the vid is showing as 1.341 on cpuz coretemp and hwinfo64 and i just dont no why. I noticed the dvid underneath the vcore setting in the bios is greyed out and i cant use it, i thought there may have been a + offset set causing the vid to be showing a lot higher than what i had set. I have checked the LLC as well and its set to normal so i cant see how that would be causing a +1v on my cpu.

The only thing i have changed is the memory to xmp profile but thats it, i also disabled the core boost as well as its kinda pointless to me

Hope someone might be able to help me out

Cheers

Liam
 
i find the vid to be different to the vcore on my board (asrock) i think its normal so nothing to worry about on some guides ive read you use the vid to set the offset values
 
Cheers mate, i used the 3d bios and that will now let me use the dvid setting, it was set at 0.00. I just dont understand why core temp would show 1.341v when its set to 1.25 in the bios. When i enable all the downclocking settings in the bios i see it drops to 0.950 as well as the multi to 16x. I am either looking at the wrong value all together or i am missing something in the bios to tweak.
 
I have just set 1.25v for the vcore in the bios and when i load up easytune i at idle its showing 1.236v on the vcore which i guess is actually right. Underload it dropped to 1.188v which again is prob right with the normal LLC setting i have set.

So maybe the vcore i am setting in the bios is being applied but the software i am using to monitor the vid i.e core temp and hw monitor must be reading something else to get the 1.348v figure when running prime. Is there an issue perhaps reading the voltage from gigabyte boards?
 
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