VRM voltage and temps, where to find them ?

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On my Asus Maximus VIII Impact motherboard (on latest bios 2202) :confused:

(Skylake intel i7 6700K CPU).

Where the heck do I find the "VRM Voltage" or Vrm temps ?

I have searched the bios, cant see anything there like that, I have the very latest versions of both Aida64 Engineers edition and also HD monitor, again I cant see nothing regarding anything to do with the VRM Volts or Temps :confused:

Could some people maybe help me please thanks ?
 
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There is no way to reliably monitor them. I have a temperature sensor attached to the bottom of both vrm heatsinks on my Maximus VI Hero but that still only gives me the heatsink temps and not the vrm's. Seeing as I have never had any problems and the heatsinks are always in the 30's the vrm's must be fine.
 
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There is no way to reliably monitor them. I have a temperature sensor attached to the bottom of both vrm heatsinks on my Maximus VI Hero but that still only gives me the heatsink temps and not the vrm's. Seeing as I have never had any problems and the heatsinks are always in the 30's the vrm's must be fine.
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thanks mate, but I read a heck of a lot of stories online about this VRM stuff (voltage & temps), I dont doubt you at all in what you say ;), its just that when overclocking, sometimes things are rather concerning, well to me they are anyway, especially where voltage is concerned.

I have my CPU (Skylake intel i7 6700K CPU) clocked to 4.6 with a few bios tweaks, one is the LLC being raised to level 5, I know that higher LLC settings causes much higher voltages but I have my CPU voltage locked (over-ridden) to 1.344 and as I say some other tweaks, and its when I started reading more into the pro's and con's of raising the LLC that I seen all the stuff about "VRM".

I wonder 'maybe' if Asus have kind of cracked the problem of VRM with board like mines and yours etc, hmmmm :confused:
 
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I have had my LLC at level 7 when running at 4.8Ghz which takes loads of extra voltage and still didn't run into any problems. I also have my cpu input voltage running at 1.3v.
 
;) Thanks mate,

I was trying a few things with my asus Maximus VIII Impact board and intel i7 6700K CPU with regards to the LLC thing, its kind of new to me although I have seen LLC mentioned several times in several places on the internet.

I have it clocked to 4.6, LLC at level 5 and voltage cpu voltage locked to 1.344 and after running lots of RealBench_v2.44 (latest edition) benchmark and stress tests using that program it sailed through the tests.

I tried several LLC levels starting from level 1 upwards etc, and each time I changed the LLC level I would try a few Realbench benchmark tests and write down the scores I was getting and watch the core tempreatures etc.

I found the LLC 5 seemed to be the sweet point, level 6 and 7 actually started reducing the scores quite a bit and made a big increase in the cpu temps too, well at least I think it was LLC that was causing it, :eek: lol

I am not one much for benchmarking just for the scores sake but its nice to see scores climb I guess, tempreatures in this room right now an ambient about 22c - 24c and the idle cpu temps are roughly between 25-26c to 29-30c on idle depending on what wepages I am looking at etc, benching and stressing though it gets up to about maybe occasionally touching mid 70's or at the most the odd time will touch high 70's but not constant obviously.

I got about 147187 result on Realbench benchmark test last I checked, I dont know if thats good, average or poor for this tiny little ITX build in this tiny little Node 304 case :confused:, I have just a cheap little graphics card though, so I would assume that will keep the score down, I dont game, so I just stuck an EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Superclocked card into it as there really isnt that much room, plus as I say, I don't game, so its an excellent little card in that respect indeed.

Node 304 Case >> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/fractal-design-node-304-htpc-chassis-white-ca-024-fd.html

Maximus VIII Impact ITX board >> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...1151-ddr4-mini-itx-motherboard-mb-677-as.html

CPU >> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ocket-lga1151-processor-retail-cp-581-in.html

Cooler > http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/hydro-series-h80i-gt-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler
(I could only get one fan on the Radiator as there isnt enough room, but it seems fine like that, touch wood for luck, lol)
 
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