Voltage Damper

oggmonster · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:56

Hey
Currently have my q6600 G0 at 3.6ghz on an asus p5k deluxe, fully stable. However ive not got the voltage damper enabled (massive vdrop/vdroop :eek:

) If I do enable it and reconfigure my voltages. Will a see a drop in temps under load? Or will they be the same?

Thanks

tsinc80697 · 8 Jan 2008 at 10:11

You can either:

Stay at 3.6ghz, find the lowest stable voltage, if its lower than what is going through it at the moment then temps will be lower

or

Find the highest fsb speed for that voltage, you might be able to push the cpu further and shouldn't have any problems with temps if what they currently are are fine!

oggmonster · 8 Jan 2008 at 10:31

Well ive found the lowest voltage to keep it stable with voltage damper disabled... I know it helps with vdrop/vdroop. But if the processor needs a certain voltage underload its not going to help with that is it?
So if anything load temps would increase/stay the same?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

tsinc80697 · 8 Jan 2008 at 10:51

Open CPU-z, get IDLE and LOAD voltage.

Turn on voltage dampener and go back into windows.

Check IDLE and LOAD voltages again.

Work out the difference, go back into BIOS and drop the voltage by that difference. ie on my P5K board mine the voltage drop was something like 0.1v and now it is 0.08v. So I dropped the voltage from say 1.5v to 1.41v as they are both equal to 1.4v~ under load

oggmonster · 8 Jan 2008 at 11:32

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks! So I probably won't see a drop in load temps...but idle/general use temps will probably be lower?

tsinc80697 · 8 Jan 2008 at 11:37

Yeah, idle temps should be lower as you don't need to compensate for such a high voltage drop

oggmonster · 8 Jan 2008 at 15:34

Brilliant! Thanks a lot for your help =)