Intel TVB Voltage Optimisation. Worth enabling it?

evo4ever86 · 18 Mar 2019 at 04:54

Hello all.

I noticed a feature in my ASUS mobo BIOS called "TVB Voltage Optimisation" I'm not quite sure how it works and would it make an overclock unstable? Can anyone shed any light on this technology? Cheers guys!

evo4ever86 · 19 Mar 2019 at 18:37

Bump. No one got any info on TVB?

evo4ever86 · 20 Mar 2019 at 04:32

LuckyBenski said:
Thermal Velocity Boost. It's a feature of 9 series CPUs. Seems that it's like a reverse boost facility - as the chip gets cooler, it applies a negative offset to voltage. So the lower your temperature, the lower the voltage applied for a given clock speed. This is because voltage required for silicon to function within spec goes up with heat. Net result is a well-cooled chip should stay cool, I guess. That's all i could find but there are more specifics online

So I guess its only worth having it enabled on a cold winters night under an open window?

evo4ever86 · 20 Mar 2019 at 11:16

LuckyBenski said:
I wouldn't say that, low temperatures means well-cooled not refrigerated! Like many new features i expect it will become obvious over time how useful it is. It has the potential to be handy though, for anyone with good cooling who isn't always running at 100% load.

I'll enable it and see how it goes. Cheers guys.

EDIT: I've heard it only works for 9th gen CPUs IE the 9000-series CPUs, is this true?