Quote Originally Posted by Reefa_Madness View Post
Here are a couple of articles that might help you get started using the MM. The second one covers other things, but includes MM. There are others out there that you can find using Google. Hope that helps some.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=137886

http://www.multimeterwarehouse.com/usingamultimeter.htm
Very informative links, thanks
Although I have to say, in the end I wussed-out and didn't manually verify.
I did try the pencil mod however and below are my results.

First let me say I tried CPU Volt Dampener on and off and found no difference at all so I think we can confirm this is broken on all vanilla boards...

Before first pencil mod:
BIOS/CPUZ Idle/CPUZ Load
1.425/1.400/1.328

CPU Spread On (interesting lower idle and slightly higher load):
1.425/1.384/1.336

1st Try Pencil Mod (CPU Spread Off):
1.425/1.400/1.344,1.352 (moved around a bit)

2nd Try Pencil Mod
1.425/1.400/1.368

3rd Try Pencil Mod
1.4375/1.416/1.416
1.45/1.432/1.432
1.4625/1.440/1.440
1.4875/1.215/1.215*

Looks like third time was the charm. Instead of scratching lines I went in circles and really filled in the top of that chip. Also had to be careful to clean off the lead dust that collected around it. Prob just being paranoid but I was afraid it would settle somewhere and short something out. BTW, my pencil didn't have a number but pretty sure it was not a #2. Its a construction pencil for writing on 2x4 wood and stuff, its thick and pretty hard but guess it worked well in the end

* At 1.4875 and above CPUZ just pooped out and obviously didn't work anymore. I know its not right b/c my overclocks were stable.