Voltage overclocking 4790k

[recon_26]

Hi People

I'm new to posting on the forum but have been a long time lurker

I Recently purchased the black Friday bundle which included 4790k and the
Z97 soc-force motherboard.

I have never overclocked before but I have been reading up quite a bit just so I can get the basics, however I have a few queries.

I set my voltage in bios to 1.210 @ 4.6ghz but my bios is showing the vcore is 1.224 and when I run prime95 26.6 this voltage goes up to 1.236 on hwmonitor

Im just a bit puzzled why this is happening would be great if someone with more knowledge can shed some light on this.

Thanks in advance

 

[MrMD]

Hi People

I'm new to posting on the forum but have been a long time lurker

I Recently purchased the black Friday bundle which included 4790k and the
Z97 soc-force motherboard.

I have never overclocked before but I have been reading up quite a bit just so I can get the basics, however I have a few queries.

I set my voltage in bios to 1.210 @ 4.6ghz but my bios is showing the vcore is 1.224 and when I run prime95 26.6 this voltage goes up to 1.236 on hwmonitor

Im just a bit puzzled why this is happening would be great if someone with more knowledge can shed some light on this.

Thanks in advance

Pretty standard behaviour on Gigabyte mobos(mine does the same).Nothing to worry about.

With HWmontior if you scroll down to CPU>Voltages you will see a listing for VID,this will be the value of Vcore you have set in your bios.

The actual values it will put through the cpu however as vcore goes up in .012 increments

1.212>1.224>1.236>1.248 ect ect


With a manual voltage of 1.210 the mobo would interpret this as a Vcore 1.212.

Your seeing 1.224 due to LLC settings,i have mine at auto and i see it bumping one notch up the vcore. In bios 1.248v underload in windows 1.260v.

Running prime will also increase your Vcore up a notch due to AVX instructions.

Hope this makes sense.Some1 else can prob explain the LLC setting more clearly,cause i dont really understand it,thus i leave it on auto

 

[recon_26]

Thank you appreciate the reply


Hopefully someone can help me out with the llc, read briefly up on it
Sounds complicated for a Beginer overclocker lol

 

[McGraw]

I didn't bother looking into LLC, when it's stable, it's stable.

 

[BluD]

LLC just stops your voltage dropping slightly under load, it just applies slightly more voltage when you apply load, just be carefull to check your voltage again after you apply LLC as it could be running a lot higher than it was before.