How do i find out the vid of my i7 930 chip?

[JimboJet]

I have an i7 930 installed on an Ausu P6X58D-E mobo with the 0108 (3/23/2010) BIOS.

I've tried CPUZ, and ofc being an i7, it doesn't report the VID like say my old e6600 core duo chip.

When I enter the BIOS, it either it doesn't give the VID or I can't find it (no doubt the latter!) So how DO I find out my VID?

 

[setter]

Basically no software app or bios that i know off can display the vid of an i7 cpu. With my own 920 DO, at stock speed the voltage displayed in cpuz was 0.968v, when i first started overclocking, i manually set the voltage to 1.18, (could go lower or higher, depending on your chip), tried a basic 3ghz overclock that passed stability testing. Next steps was to raise the bclk 10mhz at a time and keep the same voltage, eventually got to 3.6ghz, (21x173) on 1.18, only needed a jump to 1.2750 vcore for 4.0ghz. Try setting the vcore to 1.200, run a stability test, with the system at stock, if stable, go into the bios and lower the vcore a notch, repeat this until the system either fails testing or refuses to boot, this way you can find the lowest vcore required to run at stock speed

 

[JimboJet]

My 930 DO, stock speed voltage as displayed in cpuz was about the same as yours, in fact it seemed to move about a bit the lowest being 0.8XX (dont remember the exact figure but remember thinking "crikey that seems low"!) and up to about your figure of 0.968v.

I think this is why I'm eager to find the VID for my chip, because if it is that low I'm going to have a damned good go at some blinding overclocks!

 

[kitfit1]

because if it is that low I'm going to have a damned good go at some blinding overclocks!

Then you are going to have to find some cooling a bit more up to the task than the H50 you have at the moment.

 

[JimboJet]

I'm aware of that. I like the H50-1 for its low noise and not for its OC cooling merits although having said that its not the worst cooling solution by a long shot.

 

[setter]

Generally, the h50 is on a par with high end air coolers such as the TRUE, megahelims, while taking up a bit less room, 4ghz is about the sensible limit on the H50 or air, unless your pretty lucky and get a nice cool running low voltage clocking chip. Anything higher your looking at watercooling or more exotic methods such as phase cooling.