What Vcore reading is right

Temps have maxed at 44C during Orthos with the 2x120mm rad fans on 35% in Speedfan.
PSU is a Seasonic 500W model
+3.3 - 3.1
+5.0 - 4.87
+12 - 11.84
all under Orthos load.
 
WJA96 said:
mrdbristol is correct. The monitoring chip on the P5N-E is an ITE IT8718F-S and frankly, it's not very good. To get proper voltages you need to use a voltmeter. The readings are pretty linear though - so if you start off with a setting of 1.0V in the BIOS and it reads 1.1V in CPUz, then usually if you set the BIOS to read 1.1V, CPUz will read the extra 0.1V and show 1.2V and so on. You also have to compare apples with apples on the loading - you can't compare the voltage at idle with the voltage under 100% load for example. Voltages aren't usually a problem anyway as the processor will just overheat and shut itself down. It's quite a leap of faith, I know, but usually, if you can cool it, it will usually run quite happily without reducing the lifetime of the CPU. RAM is different in my experience. I've killed RAM with over-volting and extreme temperatures.
Cheers matey
I think my mobo is under volting thats all, the low load temps are a decent indicator although my Water cooling helps.
 
mrdbristol said:
No, i mean its a very good PSU and i won't be changing it .

If you follow the trend of "Hiper slating" without actually using one then thats up to you.

I won't even start to look for other makes of PSU that fail, that is very old history.

Mark
I was being sarcastic, should have used this :p instead.
Not a PSU basher mate.
 
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