How accurate is your voltage on your KT7 Raid?

[Jugernot]

I just got mine yesterday and installed it. When I set my voltage to 1.6v, I check the PC Health and the core is listed at 1.68v. What should I trust, the setting or the pc health?

I also checked it with Motherboard Monitor 5 and VIA Hardware monitor and it concurs with the PC Health.

Is this a bad board?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[EMAN]

No, it's not a bad board.

All motherboards come with voltage slightly off.

It's usually within .1 volts.

 

[Jugernot]

Yah on every slot1 mobo I've had a voltage about .1v off, but .8v??? Is the cpu actually getting this much voltage or is it just show?

 

[Krueger81]

Hello,

remember Adam Riese he was a math guy. Anyway when I subtract this:

1.68
-1.60
--------
0.08

not .8 ...

Just wanted to clear that up.

Krueger81

 

[Jugernot]

Ohh come on, you know what I meant!

 

[Skiracer]

Just for comparison, my KT7 also sets the core voltage approx. 0.07 to 0.08 Vdc higher than the BIOS set point. Funny thing though- the 3.3 Vdc and 5 Vdc voltages are almost dead-on. Me thinks that Abit is giving themselves a little built-in stability boost (at the cost of BTUs!). IMHO, I still wouldn't go over 1.85 Vdc core as indicated by the PC health/VIA monitor SW (1.75 Vdc core set point in BIOS). Bottom line- trust the hardware monitor.

 

[Krueger81]

j/k

I got an Abit KT7 RAID also ... hopefully it will work out for me.

Krueger81

 

[Jugernot]

Yah that is what I figured. They probably did it as a workaround for AMD. AMD probably bitched and said they didn't want them to provide overclockers with more than 1.85v, so they added the extra .8v in the background.