Just in case anyone is still reading this:


By sgtsixpack at 2010-01-19

Has anyone got big differences in bios set voltage and reported voltage? In the bios hardware monitor it show the vCore being set alot less than I selected and then with load line calibration off there is a 0.7v difference between selected and set volts.

I set 1.3825v bios for my q9550 and at in CPU-z it reports 1.35v idle and then load it goes to 1.30v.

It could work fine, at these volts until it starts rebooting spontaneously. I am trying to get 24/7 stable clocks.

I can't read the vCore with a multimeter since I don't know the measurement point, I know the points for other readings. With these 45nm chips they are not as tolerant to voltages as previous generations.

Which is correct, the bios setting or the reported voltage?