I've searched high and low for an answer to this issue and only found one other person that even mentioned this but there was never a response to his question. I'm just recently coming back to the amd scene. I haven't overclocked an AMD since socket 754 days. I just recently built a Phenom 2 with these specs
955 black edition
Asus m4a79xtd (bios 0605)
ati 5770
gskill ripjaws 4gb 1600 cas 7
I started off the overclocking by simply raising the multiplier from stock of 16x to 18x. I had left the vcore at auto which i know is a typical no no but i just wanted to see what it would do at stock voltage. Well, everything was running seemingly fine but i checked the core voltage with cpu-z and the amd cool n quiet software and under load they were reporting vcore at nearly 1.5V!!! So my question is why on earth would the vcore increase by simply raising the multiplier? I have also verified this behavior in the bios vcore reading. Also if I set the vcore to the stock value of 1.35V i believe it is would I still retain the cool n quite functionality that automatically lowers multiplier and vcore? I appreciate any help on this. If anyone has any links to decent guides for overclocking phenom x2 i'd appreciate as I'm new to the amd scene again.
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