USlatin

I am just now realizing about Vdroop and all, and I don't know if I should up my voltages by trying to get the desired voltage on something like CPU-Z or just trust the BIOS. Should I use some other software?

I live in an old building and I am only using a nice power surge protector. Should I also get something like this.

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Perry

I'm not sure if I understand the question completely but if you need to determine your default voltage you can use RM Clock, which is found here http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml. From there you can determine how far to set your voltage.

USlatin

Yea, it didn't make all that much sense... let me see.
What I am trying to figure out is if when people say that a specific voltage got them to a specific speed are they talking about the voltage set on the BIOS (that's what I have thought so far) or are they speaking of the voltage they have showing up on something like CPU-Z?
I have read that software will always be off and the readings won't be accurate, and that from one program to another you will get different readings.

So should I up the BIOS a bit more to get say a 1.325 on CPU-Z since a 1.325 setting in the BIOS shows up as much lower? So say maybe try a 1.4 or something around there untill I get a 1.325 on CPU-Z?


This doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, and it isn't what I have been doing so far. But I just want to make sure I get it cause I am having doubts... so I better ask now while I am still learning!

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pumbertot

I think you can trust BIOS and based on temps with CoreTemp you can find out how high is safe to go. but only way to know the real voltages is using a good DMM and read points of the motherboard.

also use the vdrop mod I showed you in the other thread.

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Syrillian

The BIOS puts approximately 80% load.

TAT would be the monitor that most use as it reads from the cores.

Since you live in an older building make certain that you have a decent Surge Protector. APC makes reliable units. I own the unit that you linked to. It is very good, bu I can not use it on my primary system as the wattage of the PSU is greater than the UPS. This caused the system to shut off sometimes (I think, It hasn't done it since I changed swapped it out).

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DuckieHo

Surge protector and UPS are definitely important in protecting your PC. They don't help with Vdrop though.

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