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I've completed my testing on the fluctuations of the VCore voltages on the P4C800-E Deluxe and it revealed some very interesting data.
Here is what they did, and I can tell you by looking at this data that it wasn't a mistake that the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe has this broad range of VCore values despite you setting it to a specific Value!! They engineered in a range of .096 for most all settings with this motherboard.
What does that really mean? Well if you set your VCore to 1.6 for example, it's actually going to have a range of 1.648 to 1.552 which is a .048 above and below the set 1.6!!! This is the only voltage setting however that I tested that had an even split of the voltage range!!
Also, when you set it to 1.6 for example, it doesn't set you to 1.6 at idle, it sets you to the high end of the range, in this case 1.648! I believe the reason they did this was so that when your doing things that put the machine under load, it meant that you were getting closer to your 1.6 setting while doing work, but under heavy load you drop to the low end of the voltage range, in this case 1.552. This scenario is true for ALL the settings I tested!!
The other interesing point about this testing I did is that if you go anything above 1.6 in the VCore, your wasting your time and it in fact drops you below .096 range. So instead of having a .048 value above what you set your vcore to, you'll actually get something below the vcore value range ALWAYS!! Which basically means, you'll get a highter vcore range below a 1.6 vcore than you will if you set it to 1.625 for example.
I hope you find this data as useful as I have gathering it. There is clearly a good place to set your VCore to and a point where your actually setting it lower by picking a higher value!! Asus really needs to fix this problem if they are ever going to be taken seriously, at least from an engineering and OverClocking point of view as I do.
Here is a link to the data I discovered showing all the voltages while at Idle and under load for the VCore settings of 1.525 - 1.65.
I found this data to be super beneficial in understanding what's going on under the hood of this motherboard and it's VCore settings.
P4C800-E Deluxe VCore Settings Revealed
Here is what they did, and I can tell you by looking at this data that it wasn't a mistake that the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe has this broad range of VCore values despite you setting it to a specific Value!! They engineered in a range of .096 for most all settings with this motherboard.
What does that really mean? Well if you set your VCore to 1.6 for example, it's actually going to have a range of 1.648 to 1.552 which is a .048 above and below the set 1.6!!! This is the only voltage setting however that I tested that had an even split of the voltage range!!
Also, when you set it to 1.6 for example, it doesn't set you to 1.6 at idle, it sets you to the high end of the range, in this case 1.648! I believe the reason they did this was so that when your doing things that put the machine under load, it meant that you were getting closer to your 1.6 setting while doing work, but under heavy load you drop to the low end of the voltage range, in this case 1.552. This scenario is true for ALL the settings I tested!!
The other interesing point about this testing I did is that if you go anything above 1.6 in the VCore, your wasting your time and it in fact drops you below .096 range. So instead of having a .048 value above what you set your vcore to, you'll actually get something below the vcore value range ALWAYS!! Which basically means, you'll get a highter vcore range below a 1.6 vcore than you will if you set it to 1.625 for example.
I hope you find this data as useful as I have gathering it. There is clearly a good place to set your VCore to and a point where your actually setting it lower by picking a higher value!! Asus really needs to fix this problem if they are ever going to be taken seriously, at least from an engineering and OverClocking point of view as I do.
Here is a link to the data I discovered showing all the voltages while at Idle and under load for the VCore settings of 1.525 - 1.65.
I found this data to be super beneficial in understanding what's going on under the hood of this motherboard and it's VCore settings.
P4C800-E Deluxe VCore Settings Revealed