Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
This is normal -- there is always a voltage drop when the supply is applied to a load. Some boards will 'correct' for this to maintain a constant Vcore, but that takes additional circuit/monitoring and engineering.
I expected the slight vDrop between BIOS and CPU-Z. What I didn't expect (and have seldom seen) is a 0.00v droop when all four cores are loaded. Even the A8N32's (also 8-phase power) have ~0.013v droop per loaded core ...