i7 6700k Question

[Infinity_]

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen

 

I hope you are all doing well.

 

I was wondering if you can please assist me.

 

I have upgraded and built my new rig, however I am not happy with the voltages my cpu is running at, considering it is running stock and voltages should be close to 1.2v.

 

My rig is as follows:

i7 6700k 

Corsair H80i GT CPU water cooling

Asus Z170 Pro gaming

4x4GB Corsair Vengence LPX DDR 2666Mhz

GTX 1070 (not installed as I have not received it)

Corsair RM 550X PSU

 

I know most CPUs will vary from chip to chip but it seems my i7 is running a higher than usual vcore considering i have not done any OC and left it stock (nothing changed in bios, I have even left XMP disabled for my RAM at 1st).

 

My concern is that that I may be running at dangerously close to damaging voltages without having done anything, which I have read is close to or at 1.4v.

 

Here are where I am getting my reading from:

BIOS : reports my cpu core to be 1.294v.

CPUID HWMONITOR : VCORE MAX 1.360v

CPUID HWMONITOR: VIP MAX 1.372v

 

My chip runs nice and cool, 17-19 degrees C at idle and nothing more than 45 degrees C under load.

 

I am running onboard gpu as my discreet has not arrived. Dont know if this will make a difference.

 

Ive done nothing to OC my CPU so why should it be running above the 1.2v stipulated as standard? And why would CPUID HWMONITOR and BIOS reporting different VCORE voltages?

 

I can post full HWmonitoring or CPU-Z reports if needed.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Braegnok]

Boot into your BIOS and set CPU VCORE at 1.214v, then see how that works. you should be fine at 1.214v at default settings 4.0Ghz.

 

If not then set back to AUTO and you will still be fine running at 1.294v.

[Infinity_]

Boot into your BIOS and set CPU VCORE at 1.214v, then see how that works. you should be fine at 1.214v at default settings 4.0Ghz.

 

If not then set back to AUTO and you will still be fine running at 1.294v.

 

Thanks for the assistance Braegnok.

 

I tried updating my BIOS as I thought it might be worth a shot before I do the manual approach, something strange happened during the update where EZ  flash 3 seemed to be stuck requesting me to reselect the .cap file it downloaded continually in order to complete the update.

 

Im scared that the bios may be corrupted somehow during this update as I had to hardreset to get out of the loop and will do a clear RTC RAM short on the  MB and reflash again to make sure it goes well.

 

 If my voltage after this BIOS update does not go down I will do a manual adjust on my multiplier and vcore to bring it down.

 

My setting will be as follows:

BCLK SPD : 100mhz (unchanged)

VCORE : 1.214v

Speedstep : Enable

TurboBoost : Disable

 

I want to run as stock as possible on my CPU and as the 4ghz without TurboBoost will still be powerful enough for me.

 

Also what is the effect of TurboBoost when a CPU is overclocked? Its it advised to only use TurboBoost when Vcore is set to auto? Can it work on a manually set Vcore?

 

Thanks

Edited July 20, 2016 by Infinity_