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Hi everyone as the thread name says my core i7 920 OC to 3.5ish GHZ 166mhzx20 plus turbo core voltage goes down when its stressed. According to CPU-Z at idle, the voltage is at 1.264V when i stress the CPU with Intel Burn Test v2.1 with 8 threads and standard memory, cpu-z reads a voltage of 1.232. I thought the voltage should be going up not down! This has been giving me problems when i wanted to overclock to a higher frequency it would boot up fine and when i stress the cpu the voltage would go down and cause instability. My motherboard is the Gigabyte ex58-Ud3r, antec 650 watt psu. If anyone has some tips i could try to try and fix this problem or knows a solution i would be very happy to hear it! If you need more info on the rig please ask. Thank you in advance! :D

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It's called vDroop or Load Line droop. It exists by design: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] i=3184&p=5 (check the following page as well)

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Message edited by randomizer on 07-21-2009 at 09:51:31 AM
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aodknifer wrote :

Hi everyone as the thread name says my core i7 920 OC to 3.5ish GHZ 166mhzx20 plus turbo core voltage goes down when its stressed. According to CPU-Z at idle, the voltage is at 1.264V when i stress the CPU with Intel Burn Test v2.1 with 8 threads and standard memory, cpu-z reads a voltage of 1.232. I thought the voltage should be going up not down! This has been giving me problems when i wanted to overclock to a higher frequency it would boot up fine and when i stress the cpu the voltage would go down and cause instability. My motherboard is the Gigabyte ex58-Ud3r, antec 650 watt psu. If anyone has some tips i could try to try and fix this problem or knows a solution i would be very happy to hear it! If you need more info on the rig please ask. Thank you in advance! :D



I can help. Go into BIOS, in the MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) menu slide to the bottom and enable "Load-Line Calibration"

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randomizer wrote :

It's called vDroop or Load Line droop. It exists by design: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] i=3184&p=5 (check the following page as well)


Hmmm very interesting i read first and second page randomizer and i learned quite a bit haha. So according to the article it actually good and normal for the cpu voltage to go down when stressed? and enabling these vdroop settings could also cause harm to my CPU? Thats what i understood XD. If im wrong please correct me.

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Crashman wrote :

I can help. Go into BIOS, in the MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) menu slide to the bottom and enable "Load-Line Calibration"


Hi Crashman I actually tried this but the voltage still goes down when the CPU is being stressed. I really appreciate your input though ;)

EDIT: Actually i noticed that the voltage didnt go down as much with the load-line calibration enabled. Instead of a .05 volt drop its a .02 voltage drop which isnt really much. I think thats good enough for me.


Message edited by aodknifer on 07-21-2009 at 08:16:12 PM
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