LLC on Gigabyte UD5 on or off......
- Thread starter Gaidin109
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so is it ok if the voltages are low to begin with, I have a i7 920 D0, which is stable with 1.25v in bios and LLC enabled, but needs 1.287v with it Disabled.
Maximum vcore for I7 is 1.375 according to intel.
1.216v under load with LLC on. varies between 1.2v -1.232v with it off.
It seems people who are using 45nm quads are disabling it, yet people with i7 cpus are enabling it. i7 D0 are using far lower volts than the quads anyway. the question is are the i7's spiking within the parameters of the cpu's or not with LLC enabled as most are using far less volts than the intel specs allow.
so if I disable Load Line Calibration and set my vcore to 1.287v that is the absolute maximum that the voltage can go..? in other words, any voltage spike will be below 1.287v. But if I enable LLC and set a lower voltage, lets say 1.25v then the voltage spike can go above this figure say to say 1.4v or higher, is this correct?.
What about voltage regulation from the motherboard itself, should the motherboard ensure a steady voltage and compensate for this. Also if LLC is so damaging to 45nm CPU's why on earth is it on every x58 motherboard. Why doesnt the motherboard regulate the transients in the first place.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but my next door neighbour is and he says that if you are using low voltages to begin with, then the transients shouldnt break the upper limit of the cpu in the first place. All the info I have found relates to 45nm quads using high voltages in the first place. How does this relate to an i7 with low volts.?
so if I disable Load Line Calibration and set my vcore to 1.287v that is the absolute maximum that the voltage can go..? in other words, any voltage spike will be below 1.287v. But if I enable LLC and set a lower voltage, lets say 1.25v then the voltage spike can go above this figure say to say 1.4v or higher, is this correct?.
What about voltage regulation from the motherboard itself, should the motherboard ensure a steady voltage and compensate for this. Also if LLC is so damaging to 45nm CPU's why on earth is it on every x58 motherboard. Why doesnt the motherboard regulate the transients in the first place.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but my next door neighbour is and he says that if you are using low voltages to begin with, then the transients shouldnt break the upper limit of the cpu in the first place. All the info I have found relates to 45nm quads using high voltages in the first place. How does this relate to an i7 with low volts.?
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