Originally posted by: myocardia
Originally posted by: Idontcare
That's a crazy amount of Vdroop. What mobo you using?
I had a DS3L go bad on me, the Vdroop went crazy high like yours. I RMA'ed it and it turned out to have a blown VRM (?) or such, one of those components that sits near the socket and would be under the passive heatsink if it weren't a budget board like the DS3L.
That's with my GA-P35C-DS3R. It actually only has .015-.020v of vdroop, IIRC. It just has the worst vdrop (what you call voffset) of any board I've ever seen.
Originally posted by: Drsignguy
I was also wondering if it makes a differance ( probably not ) if you bought as OEM or Retail? I got mine as OEM.
Edit: would be strange to see if how many were purchased with higher VID through OEM
Originally posted by: johnsonbrewer
This VID is according to Coretemp, correct?
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: johnsonbrewer
This VID is according to Coretemp, correct?
Correct. There are 6 VID's, but the one that Coretemp reports when your system is idle is the one we are interested in (to my understanding, Mark please confirm or deny this for everyone to understand)
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: Markfw900
1.2 added ! Boy are you lucky !!!!!
I know Intel specs say VID as low as 0.85V is possible...can you imagine getting such a gem? There is probably a grand total of zero of them in existance at that VID...but such is what makes for good dreams!
Originally posted by: johnsonbrewer
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: johnsonbrewer
This VID is according to Coretemp, correct?
Correct. There are 6 VID's, but the one that Coretemp reports when your system is idle is the one we are interested in (to my understanding, Mark please confirm or deny this for everyone to understand)
I'm assuming that the VID of the chip is something that is "burned" onto it when it is tested? It is an absolute number and does not change, correct? But Coretemp definitely shows VID @ 1.2125 so I'm hoping for good things.
Originally posted by: markymoo
I am using G0 65mm quad Kentsfield on a P5B Deluxe. Any VID between 1.35 and 1.40 is stable for me at 3.4. temps 23C idle on water. no matter what i do i cant get it stable at 3.6. it gets less stable the more i go over 1.4. I am at least pleased this board get it this high when i notice others are struggling on newer boards. My 1000 memory is still running under spec at 960 but in real life use this is no loss. I am also air cooling the motherboard and ram. So it isn't the temperature or the memory thats holding it back. I think its the motherboard older chipset not working well with the quad and being stressed with no native support.
For this G0 quad more is certainly not better. I do believe it be stable at 3.6 on a newer chipset board.
Originally posted by: markymoo
I am using G0 65mm quad Kentsfield on a P5B Deluxe. Any VID between 1.35 and 1.40 is stable for me at 3.4. temps 23C idle on water. no matter what i do i cant get it stable at 3.6. it gets less stable the more i go over 1.4. I am at least pleased this board get it this high when i notice others are struggling on newer boards. My 1000 memory is still running under spec at 960 but in real life use this is no loss. I am also air cooling the motherboard and ram. So it isn't the temperature or the memory thats holding it back. I think its the motherboard older chipset not working well with the quad and being stressed with no native support.
For this G0 quad more is certainly not better. I do believe it be stable at 3.6 on a newer chipset board.
Originally posted by: Drsignguy
I have noticed that in some Screen shots that I have seen from time to time that the VID changes in coretemp to what you set the VID to in Bios? Am I correct here or am I just seeing things! Here is why I ask, no matter what voltage I set In the bios, the VID reading in coretemp is always the stock temp of my CPU and never changes. Oh, and to add, I have seen this also in speedfan. Reason is for this question is that I cant really get a good reading from what the VID is @ overclock and @ idol and what the vdroop is @ load?
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: myocardia
Originally posted by: Idontcare
That's a crazy amount of Vdroop. What mobo you using?
I had a DS3L go bad on me, the Vdroop went crazy high like yours. I RMA'ed it and it turned out to have a blown VRM (?) or such, one of those components that sits near the socket and would be under the passive heatsink if it weren't a budget board like the DS3L.
That's with my GA-P35C-DS3R. It actually only has .015-.020v of vdroop, IIRC. It just has the worst vdrop (what you call voffset) of any board I've ever seen.
I thought the nomenclature was Voffset...never heard/read of "Vdrop" before.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3184&p=5
Specifically referring to Voffset as Anandtech uses it in this graph: http://images.anandtech.com/re...2/transient_vdroop.jpg
Woudln't Intel have asked for Anandtech to correct their article if it was incorrect? Where does the term "Vdrop" come from?