Trying to overclock a Q6600 G0 on an Asus P5K motherboard and CPU-Z is really throwing me for a loop.
Leaving everything set to auto gets me a Vcore of about 1.088~1.1 both at idle and load.
This seems ridiculously small given my VID of 1.2125
Trying to overclock it from 2.4GHz to 3.0 by doing 9x333 had me up the voltage to 1.3 since this is what most people recommend.
However it seems there’s an issue with the newer P5K bioses that cause a 0.1 volt difference between what’s set in the bios and what’s actually supplied.
At 1.45 bios voltage I get 1.320 at idle and running Prime95 I’m getting 1.288, 1.264, and a minimum of 1.256 vcore.
So not only is there a difference of 0.1 from the bios to reality, I have a VDroop of around 0.7~0.8
Asus P5K bios also seems to have LLC be nonfunctional so that’s great
My questions are:
1: is it safe to pencil mod the board in order to eliminate VDroop ?
2: should I downgrade the Bios from software since EZFlash won’t allow it ?
3: is 1.1 vcore on auto safe? Or is that a side effect of the 0.1v bios bug ? I’ll try running Prime95 on auto for 24 hours to test.
Leaving everything set to auto gets me a Vcore of about 1.088~1.1 both at idle and load.
This seems ridiculously small given my VID of 1.2125
Trying to overclock it from 2.4GHz to 3.0 by doing 9x333 had me up the voltage to 1.3 since this is what most people recommend.
However it seems there’s an issue with the newer P5K bioses that cause a 0.1 volt difference between what’s set in the bios and what’s actually supplied.
At 1.45 bios voltage I get 1.320 at idle and running Prime95 I’m getting 1.288, 1.264, and a minimum of 1.256 vcore.
So not only is there a difference of 0.1 from the bios to reality, I have a VDroop of around 0.7~0.8
Asus P5K bios also seems to have LLC be nonfunctional so that’s great
My questions are:
1: is it safe to pencil mod the board in order to eliminate VDroop ?
2: should I downgrade the Bios from software since EZFlash won’t allow it ?
3: is 1.1 vcore on auto safe? Or is that a side effect of the 0.1v bios bug ? I’ll try running Prime95 on auto for 24 hours to test.
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