So I bought my i7 6700k about 6 months ago and everything was basically smooth sailing from there. I ended up overclocking the CPU about 2-3 weeks after purchasing it and I always noticed something that kinda bothered me but I never decided to ask if it was an issue.
Before updating my BIOS yesterday to F22 for the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 6 MOBO, I had my CPU running at 4.5GHZ. The voltage that was set in the BIOS was 1.345 (or something around there) and I noticed that the CPU VCore would be that voltage that I had set in the BIOS but the VID would bounce up to 1.43V~.
After updating my BIOS, it removed my overclock profile. However, before wanting to jump back to 4.5GHZ, I wanted to test something. I initially had my CPU right at 4.0GHZ at a fixed voltage of 1.2V. Everything seemed good and VCore would go between 1.1V-1.2V. However the VID was still a bit off. The VID wasn't jumping terribly high but it would peak at 1.23V~.
Today I ended up overclocking it to 4.2GHZ at 1.22V to see if the problem would still persist. I also disabled Turbo and integrated graphics just in case but it seems that the issue hasn't been solved. My CPU VCore was between 1.140V and 1.200V (and averaged at around 1.188V), but my VID was jumping between 0.715V up to 1.308V.
In the photo above, it shows my VID voltage at 1.292V and VCore at 1.176V.
I've looked around online but it was hard to find an exact answer as nobody really asked the question I'm asking now (unless I am blind). I did end up seeing a couple posts about VCore being higher than VID but not vise versa.
If anyone is willing to elaborate on what I am seeing, I will be glad to listen and hopefully understand what is going on.
Thanks.
Before updating my BIOS yesterday to F22 for the Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 6 MOBO, I had my CPU running at 4.5GHZ. The voltage that was set in the BIOS was 1.345 (or something around there) and I noticed that the CPU VCore would be that voltage that I had set in the BIOS but the VID would bounce up to 1.43V~.
After updating my BIOS, it removed my overclock profile. However, before wanting to jump back to 4.5GHZ, I wanted to test something. I initially had my CPU right at 4.0GHZ at a fixed voltage of 1.2V. Everything seemed good and VCore would go between 1.1V-1.2V. However the VID was still a bit off. The VID wasn't jumping terribly high but it would peak at 1.23V~.
Today I ended up overclocking it to 4.2GHZ at 1.22V to see if the problem would still persist. I also disabled Turbo and integrated graphics just in case but it seems that the issue hasn't been solved. My CPU VCore was between 1.140V and 1.200V (and averaged at around 1.188V), but my VID was jumping between 0.715V up to 1.308V.
In the photo above, it shows my VID voltage at 1.292V and VCore at 1.176V.
I've looked around online but it was hard to find an exact answer as nobody really asked the question I'm asking now (unless I am blind). I did end up seeing a couple posts about VCore being higher than VID but not vise versa.
If anyone is willing to elaborate on what I am seeing, I will be glad to listen and hopefully understand what is going on.
Thanks.
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