Why is my CPU voltage 3V??

[GuileVsGuile]

cpu-z is saying my cpu voltage is around 3V. of course this is impossible or i would not be able to post about it. anyone know why this is? im pretty sure it is really like 1.52

 

[Hacp]

Maybe your motherboard sucks at monitoring voltages? I know that I get a reported 12 rail of 10.4 under full load, but when tested with a multimeter, its aroiund 11.92......

 

[GuileVsGuile]

nah, my mobo is good for monitoring usually...but i mean, cmon...a 1.5V deviation when reporting the VCore is ridiculous. Cant be mobos fault unless it just does not like cpu-z

 

[JBT]

Hmm someone else posted about CPU-Z saying the same thing yesturday. having 3v vcore... odd. I think they found it was by running MBM5 and CPU-Z at the same time.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Maybe your motherboard sucks at monitoring voltages? I know that I get a reported 12 rail of 10.4 under full load, but when tested with a multimeter, its aroiund 11.92......

What board do you have. The MSI K8N Neo4-F in here reports 12.95V on the +12V rail, but my multimeter says 11.87V. If it were 12.95V, would that be dangerous?

BTW, hope I'm not threadjacking.

 

[stevty2889]

I've seen cpu-z show some strange readings, so I wouldn't make too much of it. I've got a screenshot somewhere where CPU-Z was showing my CPU as 422Ghz, with a fsb of 24800mhz..

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

mine says mine is at 3.040/

 

[NINaudio]

Yeah, I was having weird issues with mbm5 and cpu-z reporting vcores of over 3V. I turned off mbm5 from starting with the pc, and cpu-z reads my vcore fine now.