VCORE and VID?

[xoVague]

So I ran AIDA64 for 7 hours with 1.210V on my 4.8ghz OC (7700k) and I'm getting a max of 1.327V on VID but seeing, 1.216 on Vcore so what voltage is actually going to my CPU?

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[nikoli707]

vid is what you set in the bios, vcore is what your cpu is actually getting(reported, if you use a multimeter it may be off 0.01-0.02v)

 

[SumTingW0ng]

VID (Voltage Identifier) = Voltage Level "request" by the CPU to the motherboard's VR (voltage regulator) to supply it, this is initialized by the CPU and can change accordingly if the CPU is in power saving mode like C1E/EIST features, and also each CPU has an unique max VID internally that was set at factory level while they're running at full load. Turning off power saving features like C1E/EIST will overide and disable those feature and the cpu's VID will be permanently set at their max.

VCore = Actual voltage "delivered/supplied" by the mobo to the cpu, this could be automatic from the cpu as the function of C1E/EIST features ... or ... it was manually set and override by user like in OCing, and this "manually set" vcore could be higher/lower than the cpu's VID at mobo with oc-ing capability.

About the voltage reading, VID is just a state or information that is in the CPU, while vcore is the actual voltage, and as usual, software based reading on vcore is not very accurate, expecting +/-10 to 20% off for normal condition.