HWInfo64

BluD · 5 Sep 2018 at 07:38

Hello, im just in the process of overclocking my new PC but im having a bit of trouble with HWInfo, for some reason if i set my vcore to 1.3 HWInfo shows it hitting 1.42v. In the bios its only showing 1.3 and i downloaded CPU-Z just to check and thats also showing 1.3v.

Is there a special version of HWInfo for this gen or summat? I prefer using HW info cause it shows all the info on my keyboards LCD screen so i dont have to have an overlay on.

Cheers.

BluD · 5 Sep 2018 at 16:15

Sorry, apparently i need to learn to read. It isnt the vcore at 1.42 its something called the VID. I'm not sure exactly what that is but i found the vcore further down the list. Ignore me please

Disco_P · 5 Sep 2018 at 23:35

I think VID is the voltage into your CPU from the motherboard, the CPU then splits it up among all the bits inside it like the core, memory controller, cache etc.

Correct me if I am wrong.

BTVA · 5 Sep 2018 at 23:43

Disco_P said:
I think VID is the voltage into your CPU from the motherboard, the CPU then splits it up among all the bits inside it like the core, memory controller, cache etc.

Correct me if I am wrong.

you are unfortunately wrong.
CPU Input voltage is what you meant, CPU Input voltage only available on Skylake X, Haswell E, Broadwell E or any cpu that has FIVR.
CPU VID is the voltage that the cpu is asking for at some certain frequency, and it behaves differently between cpus. CPU vcore (down the HWinfo64 list) as BluD found out later is the actual voltage to the CPU.

LuckyBenski · 6 Sep 2018 at 00:37

Yup, VID is voltage ID. i.e. it's the "label" of the voltage requested by CPU. It's not a reading, and as BTVA says the exact voltage that's delivered by the system varies depending on the chip and also the motherboard VRMs.

BluD · 6 Sep 2018 at 13:09

Ah thats interesting, i found out through a bit more testing that with any sort of overclock the VID goes to 1.42 so it seems my CPU is just greedy if it wants that much voltage, i could probably run at 5.4ghz with that much voltage so i dont know why its requesting it at much lower speeds.