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Old 11-16-08   #1 (permalink)
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I've been working on nudging up my system specs a bit, and I've managed to secure a stable CPU overclock at 375 x 8 on my E6600. Higher than that, and I've run into problems with stability that I think may be related to voltage. I've got my BIOS set to 1.500v, which is the max recommended by Intel. However, according to the output on CPU-Z, the actual voltage is 1.456. Can anyone help explain the discrepancy? Would it be safe to go a bit higher in BIOS and rely on the CPU-Z display? Thanks to all who are able to help.
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its called vDrop and what you are seeing in windows is the actual voltage going into your chip, so go by what cpuz says not the bios
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Great, thanks for the explanation! Do you think it's safe to go a bit higher with the voltage and bump up the speed a bit more?
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Do a vdroop pencil mod and your vdroop will go away. I did the mod on my 680i and I got my old E6600 stable under 1.4v.

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