for reference my rig:
asus sabertooth x58
i7 950 w/ megahalems
gskill ddr3 1600 c9
asus 460 gtx
corsair TX950w psu
haf 932
ive been overclocking this week to find exactly the settings i want. i want my cpu to be around 3.5-3.7 ghz and my ram to be around 1700 mhz with the lowest voltage and i have been doing trial and error to find the best stable settings. today a rather strange thing came up. cpuz does not display correct voltages, but only sometimes it doesnt display the right volts. This happened after i lowered my cpu multiplier to 21x and base clock to about 170 at 1.20v. Cpuz (which has agreed with bios for a long time) said it was at 1.24 volts. i then changed it to 1.23 volts in bios and checked again and cpuz said 1.27 volts. though the temperatures were low for the voltage cpuz stated. i then set everything back to stock settings, cpuz said volts was higher than normal .98v idle 1.26 load. i then went to the lowest voltage ive found previously at stock clock 1.0625 and cpuz agreed with this and with every value until bios voltage was raised past 1.15v in which case cpuz voltage disagrees with bios settings. Now ive tried different versions of cpuz and redownloading them but they all do the same thing. Basically id like to know how concerned i should be about this and how to fix it if possible. the highest overclock ive done was 3.86 ghz at 1.23 volts with max temps in prime about 64c (29c or so ambient) which from what i can tell is generally considered safe as far as overclocking goes.
thanks in advance for reading my monologue.
asus sabertooth x58
i7 950 w/ megahalems
gskill ddr3 1600 c9
asus 460 gtx
corsair TX950w psu
haf 932
ive been overclocking this week to find exactly the settings i want. i want my cpu to be around 3.5-3.7 ghz and my ram to be around 1700 mhz with the lowest voltage and i have been doing trial and error to find the best stable settings. today a rather strange thing came up. cpuz does not display correct voltages, but only sometimes it doesnt display the right volts. This happened after i lowered my cpu multiplier to 21x and base clock to about 170 at 1.20v. Cpuz (which has agreed with bios for a long time) said it was at 1.24 volts. i then changed it to 1.23 volts in bios and checked again and cpuz said 1.27 volts. though the temperatures were low for the voltage cpuz stated. i then set everything back to stock settings, cpuz said volts was higher than normal .98v idle 1.26 load. i then went to the lowest voltage ive found previously at stock clock 1.0625 and cpuz agreed with this and with every value until bios voltage was raised past 1.15v in which case cpuz voltage disagrees with bios settings. Now ive tried different versions of cpuz and redownloading them but they all do the same thing. Basically id like to know how concerned i should be about this and how to fix it if possible. the highest overclock ive done was 3.86 ghz at 1.23 volts with max temps in prime about 64c (29c or so ambient) which from what i can tell is generally considered safe as far as overclocking goes.
thanks in advance for reading my monologue.