what do I set voltage to for stock 2500k??

[toyota]

in the bios settings it is set to auto but is running at 1.35. I thought it it was supposed to be 1.2 something but google is failing me.

 

[Crap Daddy]

Yes, at stock, bios reading it should be around 1.2 something. Have you changed something or the settings are on auto?

 

[Kenmitch]

SB's have a mind of their own when it comes to vcore depending on the default bios settings....Bout time you upgraded

What voltage does it show in the hardware monitor in bios? In windows what do you use to read voltages?

I never ran my chip at stock speed for long but I'm thinking mine did hit somewhere around there at full load.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Idle 1.6GHz is ~0.7-0.9V

3.4GHz is ~1.21V

4.4GHz is ~1.31V

There is no fixed upper limit on stock voltage AFAIK.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Idle 1.6GHz is ~0.7-0.9V

3.4GHz is ~1.21V

4.4GHz is ~1.31V

There is no fixed upper limit on stock voltage AFAIK.

I think there was confusion about "maximum voltage" on these K chips. Intel had given a "VID range" with upper limit around 1.5V, but this was just a possible range. With the 32nm processors, the maximum SAFE voltage would need to be as low -- or lower -- than the previous generation CPU's for which they'd actually reported a "safe" range in the detailed spec-list on the INtel web-site.

What you say about voltages at 1.6, 3.4 and 4.4 seems about right to me. That is, those voltages seem to correspond to the "auto" value with the processor running at that speed and the power-saving features turned off.

but "5.0 Ghz pie-in-the-sky" and all the rave parties about it, Intel never said how much you could push these cores: We're our own guinea-pigs. I've seen people push the cores to 4.7 or 4.8, and then get into a panic about "excessive temperatures" at any speed. Even the tech-savvy reviewers were showing 1.404V @ 4.7 and as low as 1.400V at 5.0. That doesn't mean 1.4V is a safe voltage.

 

[sangyup81]

in the bios settings it is set to auto but is running at 1.35. I thought it it was supposed to be 1.2 something but google is failing me.

Stock volts are higher than needed at stock speeds usually anyways. How about see how low you can go and still be stable?

 

[Kenmitch]

Stock volts are higher than needed at stock speeds usually anyways. How about see how low you can go and still be stable?

Guess a person could try leaving the vcore on auto and using a negative offset to do this. SB's although easier to overclock require a person to pretty much pretend it's their first overclocking adventure all over again to some extent. Things like C1E, EIST, Turbo need to remain enabled. Well I guess some people like to read the forums sitting at 4.5ghz plus @1.3v's or more

 

[toyota]

okay I will take a closer look when I get back to my new pc later tonight or tomorrow. using the BIOS must make the cpu run at nearly full speed because it was at 56-58 C but on the desktop it was only 32 C. thats on the stock cooler btw. also the memory timings were different in cpu z than what I set them at in the bios so that has me a bit worried. again I will check all that out a bit closer later on.