How much to trust CPU-Z voltage?

caseman

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Oct 18, 2003
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Like the title says, how much should I trust the voltage meter in cpu-z? The temp\voltage meters embedded on the mobo are generally pretty crappy, and cpu-z must read from that right... or does it somehow get the stats from somewhere else? If it doesn't, then the reading is pretty much useless.

I'm asking because my board is known to be a terrible undervolter (is that really a word?), but with the vcore set to 1.675 cpu-z has it switching between 1.696 and 1.712. Definitely not the undervolts I was expecting.
 

Spitfire_x86

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CPU-Z says that my cpu voltage ios 1.76v/1.77v. Actually it's set 1.80v in BIOS

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