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    Overclocking Voltage Question

    Just a quick question:

    In BIOS my vCore is set to 1.425v, in CPU-Z it comes up as 1.344v, which one do I trust ?
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    Re: Overclocking Voltage Question

    I go off CPU-Z with my EVGA.

    It's fairly common with a lot of boards.

    google, "vdroop" if you want to read up

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    Re: Overclocking Voltage Question

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    I go off CPU-Z with my EVGA.

    It's fairly common with a lot of boards.

    google, "vdroop" if you want to read up
    Yeah I've heard of that vdroop thing a couple of times but never really looked into it, thanks for the help though but if I fry my chip with too much voltage im blaming you
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