• Adjusting voltages on a Z68 Board
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I've just gotten a shiny new i7 2600k, and I'm a bit confused on how over/undervolting works now. I have a GA-Z68X-UD3H, it's got the old-style BIOS menu. I'm looking to set my voltage to something like 1.32V. I have an option to key that value in, and it works, but when the CPU idles and drops it's multiplier, the voltage doesn't drop with it. I'd rather keep those power-savings. My other option is to set VCore to Auto, which sets voltages too high for my liking, or use the Normal setting, which opens up the Dynamic VCore (DVID) option. Playing around with it, it seems to set the VCore pretty low, starting a Prime95 test immediatley shuts off the PC. So I'd imagine you need to use the DVID to increase this. But there isn't any indication of what the VCore is at this point. The motherboard seems to report an inflated VCore compared to what CPU-Z reads in Windows. Anybody know where I can find some info with this, or provide some advice? Blindly selecting DVID and watching the Motherboard-reported VCore touch 3.9V and above is too risky without actually knowing what's going on. Also, while I'm on the issue, my new PC seems to have issues waking from sleep mode. Windows will bluescren after waking, with a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT code. I've tested my memory using Window's memory diagnostic, which has come back positive. I'm not overclocking my RAM either, just using it's XMP profile, so I doubt RAM is the issue. My specs: i7 2600k D2 revision GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Corsair Vengeance Dual-Channel DDR3 1600 Corsair 650W PSU EVGA 560 Ti Sorry for the Wall-o-text but any info on the situation is what I'm after.
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