Nah, I don't take that stuff any more. I'm just a little distracted.
He! He! Good one. I like your sense of humor.
The core voltage goes up under stress because of Load Line Calibration. There may be a bios line item to control that in some way (either to enable or disable it or to adjust the weight of it) or it may be not be visible but be at work behind the scenes. The idea of it is that it allows you to be stable under stress while not have to live 24/7 with the higher voltage necessary to keep the system stable under stress. Actually, without it you would see the voltage drop off under stress because of the heat-produced increased resistance in the micro circuitry under stress. Some bioses don't employ it all and then you see vdrop (drop in voltage at idle) and vdroop (drop in voltage under load).
Right, that's what I'm seeing as the cpu usage goes up but I don't believe I have any way to adjust it and that's ok with me.
I think I finally understand what people have been trying to tell me about Vcore aka Core Voltage. My AMI bios lists CPU Voltage as a label but lets you vary CPU Vcore and Core VID. The only thing you can choose for CPU Vcore is 'auto' or an amount to add to the default; that amount is a multiple of .05v. Core VID lets you adjust CPU voltage by +/- .012v (using VID increments of .0125, oddly enough) so you have a finer granularity and can go up or down. So the AMI bios doesn't let you set the CPU voltage using a constant; it only lets you offset in a positive direction using CPU Vcore or in a positive or negative direction using the voltage setting.
I did try raising the ref clock above the current level of 257 but I can't seem to find a stable point. I kept the NB and HT values at or below 2000 and the dram speeds at the second multiplier (1066) and raised the cpu voltage but it was still a no-go. I'm guessing that, above a certain CPU speed (and ref clock frequency) you need to start increasing NB, HT, dram, speeds and voltage, either singly or in combination.
I do wonder about the smart fan concept and how it works with overclocking. I don't want to leave the fan setting on high all the time but don't want to worry about overheating things when I do peg it from time to time. I have an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro that I will use to replace the stock cpu but still imagine there must be some adjustments to make to PowerNow or C1E or something to make sure you don't cook it. How do you handle the PowerNow or equivalent settings on your system? And do you have any entries in this forum about the way you OC'd your system?
