Vcore setting

[ichabod]

Hi

I have a question regarding my VCore BIOS setting...

The VCore read by apps such as CoreTemp always shows up lower than the nominal BIOS setting. This difference increase under load as expected. Intel specify a max normal VCore of 1.372 for the Q6600 B3 although obviously a lot of people exceed this. My question is, to stay within Intel specs, should I set the BIOS to a maximum of 1.372 or should I be able to set the BIOS level higher in order to achieve a real reading of 1.372 in CoreTemp when the PC is unloaded?

Cheers
Dan

 

[qw3r7yju4n]

dont trust any software to display your voltages correctly. if your not overclocking dont touch your vcore. if it works fine, why fix it?

plus another thing is yes intel say that the max is 1.372. but you probably dont know that the last batches of B3 steppings were shipping functional with lower vcores. mine actually shipped with 1.2875 Vcore. heh, more room to overclock..hell there were some shipping with a vcore of 1.2 and lower!

hope this helps mate. DONT FIX IT, IF IT AINT BROKE!

 

[ichabod]

Sorry, I forgot to mention.. I am overclocking, that is why I placed this topic in the overclocking section. That is interesting about the differnet batches of B3 Q6600s. Is there any way of finding out which I have? I bought it immediately after the price cuts at the end of July.

 

[ichabod]

sorry, can I add that in my BIOS is a hardware monitor page which displays actual VCore.. this seems to tie up well with what I see in apps such as speedfan etc.