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I have my 680i voltages all set to "auto." But when I look at nTune and CPU-Z, it shows higher than stock voltages. Is it setting them by itself?

 

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That a bad thing?

 

It can be actually. My 650i board was "auto" selecting 1.47v for the vcore... a little... lot... high. It seemed to scale the voltage to my FSB overclock. Thus, it seemed to be "thinking" like "oh, well if he wants the FSB at 325mhz then he must want X voltage". I'd hate to see what auto would have selected for a huge overclock, as 1.47v is already pushing it in my opinion. I changed it to manual and have a perfectly stable OC at 1.36v, which is also much safer.

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I avoid ntune and nv monitor, it tells me that my chipset fan is running at 10,000 RPM, that stock voltages are "red."

 

I have ntune uninstalled at the moment, not looking back either. Set everything in the BIOS manually and I'm alright.

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Most bios now seem to do this my commando vcore for example scales as u oc. Only thing u need to watch is they tend to overuse voltage. on mine if i use auto i can back it of a couple of notches from what auto sets & still have a stable oc.

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It does seem a little sneaky if motherboards are bumping voltage up if you alter other settings.

 

However, I personally think if you are doing any OCing you shouldn't be leaving things on auto settings anyway.

(Sure, maybe some more obscure settings, but voltages are pretty straightforward generally)

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