Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

[tazmanfrom]

I am trying to understand the Vcore voltage situation with my system. If I leave it on Auto, HWMonitor and OCCT report an idle voltage of 1.31V. My CPU is OC'd to 3.0Ghz (Q6600).
I set the voltage manually to 1.35V, but then HWMonitor and OCCT report a voltage of 1.28V idle and 1.25V under load. I ran Orthos for 8 hours and all passed. The temps are 31-40C idle, 50-55C under load as reported by Coretemp (OCCT and HWMonitor report different numbers for some reason, higher numbers).
Why does the voltage drop like that? I plan on lowering the voltage some more like 1.34375V or maybe even lower to see if I it'll run stable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob

[Chike]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

The temps are 31-40C idle, 50-55C under load as reported by Coretemp (OCCT and HWMonitor report different numbers for some reason, higher numbers).
Rob

I wonder about this myself. OCCT, CoreTemp, and RealTemp show the same temperatures to me, but SpeedFan shows higher temps.

According to the tables in this article depending on your CPU stepping it's Tjmax may be 80c or 90c. What does Coretemp show for Tjmax, and does it match the table?

Maybe some of those software use constant Tjmax?

[tazmanfrom]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

Mine shows 80C. But I'm still confused!!!

[Chike]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

And does 80c match the value for your CPU stepping in that table?

The value read from the DTS is not absolute temerature, it is the distance from Tjmax, so if software substract (or add, whichever it is) the value it read from the DTS from a wrong Tjmax value, the result will be bogus.

[tazmanfrom]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

yes, it does match the table

[VorLonUK]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

Have you tried Realtemp, where the author has created better reporting accuracy from real word testing as the chips we are talking about never were designed to give accurate temperature reporting.
They simply give a count down to Tjmax and become far more accurate as they near that specified value. Reason being, as far as Intel are concerned Cpu protection/reliability is their key priority, so that the chip can be "shutdown" (so to speak) if its temperatures reach damaging levels. So all in all, their focus is on temperature monitoring at the high end of the spectrum, where it matters to them as a manufacturer, not to the consumer across the whole temperature range.

As far as I'm aware OCCT and HWMonitor use the same SDK, so their results will be the same and also shouldn't be used together.

Explanation (RealTemp):-
Real Temp - Documentation

Download (RealTemp):-
techPowerUp! :: Download Real Temp 3.00

Why does the voltage drop like that?

Are you asking about general volt drop, which happens with anything in electronics when there is a load and a resistance, or about why Auto in the bios sets your voltages higher? Or why the voltages you set in the bios manually are reported differently either on the bios PCHealth screen or in windows with hwmonitor/cpuz etc?

[kick]

Re: Utter Confusion about Voltage!!! Help.

On tazmanzs original post :
It would seem with your cpu V on auto 1.36V is being applied .
I dont know your bios ..does it have a load line calibration setting?.

The voltage applied when the pc has booted will be less than what is entered in the bios.
It may drop further under load .
Check out Vdroop on google etc.
Your memory voltage will probably drop slightly lower than what is set in bios also.

I find all my monitoring utilities read the same values for the main main voltages and temperatures.

It all depends if they are up to date or not.They are merely reading the mbrd sensors anyway.
I had an older version of core temp which didnt read my cpu properly ,but Ive changed that since.
The minimum voltage your cpu requires to run may vary.
speedfan/coretemp/cpu-z/realtemp/everest all read approximately the same the 12v supply monitoring isnt accurate,but thats a known problem.
Actually check out some of the screenshots in this thread.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/q9550-ud3p-part-deux-quest-500-fsb-32809/