Why is my voltage raising out of nowhere?

[melikepie]

First my PC has a 8120, but the problem is that a few days after i overclocked to 3.96GHz the voltage went
from 1.1875V to 1.28V so i went to 3.3GHz and now it's 2.5V and i never did anything to the voltage but when i went to 3.3GHz i
set the voltage to 1.188V but it's still doing this and only CPUZ says this and also says that the voltage every few seconds change
a little bit to! Every other program (including AMD overdrive) says 1.1875V but i trust CPUZ help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rolli59]

2.5 volts and the CPU would already be melted! CPU-Z is great but it is a third party utility while AMD overdrive is designed to work with AMD chipset boards I believe you are trusting the wrong program. Try reinstalling CPU=Z.

 

[melikepie]

2.5 volts and the CPU would already be melted! CPU-Z is great but it is a third party utility while AMD overdrive is designed to work with AMD chipset boards I believe you are trusting the wrong program. Try reinstalling CPU=Z.

Sorry but i misspelled it, i ment 1.25V!

 

[rolli59]

Sorry but i misspelled it, i ment 1.25V!

CPU's are intelligent these days and voltage will change with load. Just as long as you are staying under the advertised limits you have nothing to worry about!
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1741/19/

 

[MadJackxD]

If your motherboard has the option, you can disable CE1 support, which will make ur voltage to not vary, also have to disable turbocore. I do that on my fx6100 and have it running 3.8ghz @ 1.28v which is the stock volt, rather than 1.42 which is what the turbocore did