Question Really high CPU voltage in BIOS?

[lagrosmg]

Hello all,

My girlfriend and I just built her first PC. Everything seems to be going okay, but when we first boot it up BIOS is reading the CPU voltage at 2.5v. No overclocking or changes to any settings; this readout is the first thing we saw. Any ideas why it could be so high?

Specs:
Ryzen 5 5600
AMD Radeon RX 7600
Asus Prime B550M motherboard
PowerSpec 650W

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Thanks in advance!

 

[Order 66]

CPU voltage during boot is usually the highest it will ever be, but it should not be that high. My ryzen 7 7700x hits about 1.4v on boot and then goes down to where I set it at 1.22v.

 

[DSzymborski]

Hello all,

My girlfriend and I just built her first PC. Everything seems to be going okay, but when we first boot it up BIOS is reading the CPU voltage at 2.5v. No overclocking or changes to any settings; this readout is the first thing we saw. Any ideas why it could be so high?

Specs:
Ryzen 5 5600
AMD Radeon RX 7600
Asus Prime B550M motherboard
PowerSpec 650W


Thanks in advance!

It's unlikely to be accurate; you wouldn't have a CPU right now.

 

[lagrosmg]

Thank you for the quick replies. So do you think I could ignore it for now? And is there another program that could give me an accurate reading for peace of mind?

Original post updated with photo.

 

[ChumP]

Thank you for the quick replies. So do you think I could ignore it for now? And is there another program that could give me an accurate reading for piece of mind?

Original post updated with photo.

Just for your peace of mind try monitoring voltages and temps with HWinfo (click on the red text for the download page).

VCore would be the main thing you'll be looking at. Check it in idle, and under load situations.