Quote Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ View Post
This is something that I have been wondering about for a while. Wouldn't voltage spikes become MORE dangerous while overclocking, in theory? Im just wondering weither a higer voltage is more dangerous at idle while the chip is drawing very few amps or if its more dangerous to have a slightly higher voltage while the chip is under load while drawing much more amperage. Then I am hearing reports of loadline overvolting while on full load when tested with a DMM on Asus 16 phase boards. If you combine that with voltage spikes from overshoot (Im not sure if Im using the appropriate term here) it sounds a little more dangerous to me, but vdroop is also huge on my board 0.05 vcc from idle to load with cpu-z.
That's a very good question but I'm not sure. The loadline overvolting thing seems to be on Asus' newest boards with new bioses; apparently they didnt get overvolting on older bios (this on a core i7 board; I don't know about the p45 or x58). But if Pencil/hardware mods work properly, then people may do that instead if Asus broke loadline.

Anyway if loadline/vdroop mod is working as it should, it's much better to use it than to not use it, since otherwise you have to raise the idle vcore significantly to compensate for vdroop, and high idle voltage *can* (not saying will, but *can*) degrade a CPU. It's far better to have temporary spikes to what that idle voltage would be, without a vdroop mod, when using a mod/proper loadline, and lower idle voltage, since the CPU is exposed to less constant higher voltage. example: 1.35v idle/1.35v load with spikes to 1.41 is a lot safer than 1.41v idle/1.35v load, since the cpu is idle a LOT more than load (unless you fold 24/7 or are one of those rare people that always have a game running). Someone on ocforums posted a very clear graph explanation of this not that long ago (you can find it in a search there).