Hope you don't take it personal, but I came back here to see if there is any new info and saw that in the first post of this thread. (Not sure if that was there when I first posted about it, but I just saw it today) I am sure that your experiences were genuine, but you're overly generalizing. 780i board runs hot, and there is no reason to recommend unnecessarily high voltages. Less experienced users might just follow what's stated without testing it out themselves.Originally Posted by GAR
I have run Prime95 64-bit BLEND, just for you. (OK we're getting personal)
Blend, right? And SPP voltage 1.4V. While I am not using a quad-core, I am using 8GB of RAM, along with two video cards and 2 x 250GB in RAID0 / 2 x 500GB in RAID1, so my SPP/MCP are quite stressed. Still, I didn't try 4GB (2 x 2GB), but I might even be able to get by with even less voltages for SPP.
What I'm trying to say is that everyone's configuration is different and every board/SPP will be slightly different. And temperatures can also make differences. A few just off my head:
- It's very possible that SPP might need higher voltages for quad-cores
- If you run NB fan faster, or swap the fan with a better one you might be able to lower vSPP
- Even for the same 4GB configuration (2 x 2GB), it's likely that DDR2-1000/CL5 with dividers requires more voltages than DDR2-800/CL4 under 1:1. And different memory ICs could have different characteristics.
- And so on..
Again, I have no doubt that your finding is legit for system configuration similar to yours. But you have to be careful when you generalize it beyond that because as you can see, not everyone is going to use the same CPU, memory, GPU, or even cooling.
Hopefully my post will be considered a contribution to the thread, not a personal attack. This was quite an effort on my part because I hate Blend!
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