Voltage Problems ??

rnickster

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I have a Gigabyte DS3-P With F5 BIOS

Having a bit of trouble with my voltage settings guys....Basically in the BIOS i have set it to 1.53 and CPU-Z is showing it as 1.37......now i understand theres voltage droop ? but the voltage has stayed the same (1.36 or 1.37) everytime ive increased the voltage from the original 1.3 in BIOS to 1.53 in BIOS so its like its saying in windows that it is not changing....Do i need to just keep going higher in BIOS or is that not safe ?

Am i actually giving it 1.53 or 1.37 volts ? and am i safe to continue increasing to gain stability. ?

EDIT: its now 1.59 in BIOS and STILL !!! 1.36/1.37 in CPU-Z this cannot be right, somethign is wrong surely...I
 
Try other software. With ASUS there is asus probe, with MSI there's the duel core center. Did any monitoring software come with your mainboard?

Speed fan has voltage measures...
 
Yes i also tried Gigabytes monitoring tool ETC (Easy Tune Center) Which says the voltage is 1.41 ...however there is still the same problem, in that whatever i change the voltage too in the BIOS it
stays at 1.41 in ETC. :confused:

I dont get it :(
 
Downloaded speedfan, guess what it says :p Vcore1: 1.36v, Vcore2 2.19V....whats the Vcore2 ???? so many programs tell different readings, speedfan says temps are 60 at full load whereas TAT says 57.....
 
VCore2 is the memory voltage (vdimm).

Do you have SpeedStep and/or Eist enabled in BIOS?
 
Nope those are not enabled in BIOS....no matter what I have the voltage on in the BIOS its always 1.36 or 1.37....ive had it all the way up to 1.7 in BIOS and its had no effect. I am stumped as to what I can do....I just cant get the voltage up on this chip !!! Anyone else had this problem or who can help :confused: :confused: :( :(
 
You might be struggling to find proper monitoring software for the P35 chipset as its so new.
 
Definitely something wrong with the sensor.

Get your hands on Everest, and, if it's giving the same reading, I'd RMA the board.

It's too dangerous to have a board that won't tell you what its real vcore is.
 
Hmm I just got a N680SLI-DQ6 and I seem to be having a very similar problem.

Sometimes I get the "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt" message during startup and sometimes it'll load windows fine then after a random amount of time it'll just restart.

At first I thought it was my memory but it turned out I needed to add 0.5v.

Had everything at stock - E6600 - 2.4GHz - 1.35v

CPU-Z said 1.28v and it didn't fluctuate when under load, I understand that 1.28v is normal? But surely it should fluctuate with load and since I've increased my voltage the system has become more stable.

I've increased the voltage to 1.36v and both CPU-Z and SpeedFan now show 1.31v but still not the 1.35v it should be near and it still doesn't fluctuate with load. The temperature sensor also shows an increase so it clearly is applying the extra voltage each time.

I will try everest and then contact Gigabyte and see what they say.
 
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Seems that it was the fact i was setting the increase in voltage in BIOS and then putting system voltage back to auto so it flashed green *optimized*, after leaving it to manual and having it flash red the voltage now increases with a little voltage droop.

Haha, woops, im such a nub. :rolleyes:
 
rnickster said:
Seems that it was the fact i was setting the increase in voltage in BIOS and then putting system voltage back to auto so it flashed green *optimized*, after leaving it to manual and having it flash red the voltage now increases with a little voltage droop.

Haha, woops, im such a nub. :rolleyes:
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Muppet ;) :p

Oh well, glad you've got yours sorted. I'm Gonna have a little chat with Gigabyte see what they recommend.
 
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