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I have a MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK motherboard and an Amd Ryzen 7 3700x processor and I do not know why the voltage is so high on the processor if I open the browser or if I start doing something, the load on the processor is small but then the voltage on the processor is raised to 1.430V, this is high voltage on the processor. Even with the BIOS, the voltage is still 1.475V. Still, when I am a BIOS, when I move the mouse, the mouse cursor stutters there is about 5FPS and the BIOS itself, I do not know why. When I turn on the energy saving mode in Windows, the processor works at a maximum voltage of 0.930 and when I turn on the balanced mode, the voltage is high, just like typing, but also the mouse cursor cuts off from time to time. Maybe update the BIOS but I'm afraid to update the BIOS but I know how to do it. The current BIOS which is from 2020.03.09 and I did not find this BIOS on the motherboard manufacturer's website are newer but this is not there, so I am afraid to update the BIOS because there is no one and then I could go back. Help please. Thank you.

Hello everyone. I have an older PC that still runs very well. I won't be changing my 6700k yet so i wanted to overclock it which is a reason why i bought this CPU back then. PSU, case fans and case are not quite good and i'll be changing them soon. This is long and i'm not an expert so please bear with me. PC: i7-6700K, Z170 Pro Gaming AURA, Hyper 212 EVO, 2x8 Fury 2666, HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SSD, Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD, WD Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5", TT Smart 730 W 80+, GTX 1060, 2 stock case fans I tried couple of different OC settings just changing ratio and vcore in manual mode. Ai overclock Tuner was set to XMP. I didnt try adaptive or offset modes until i get a stable system. I ran only Realbench benchmarks for these first 4 just to see how it goes step by step. 4.2Ghz at 1.250v 2 x Benchmarks OK 4.3Ghz at 1.250v 2 x Benchmarks OK 4.4Ghz at 1.250v 2 x Benchmarks OK 4.5Ghz at 1.300v passed 1 benchmark but BSOD happened after the second benchmark. Temperatures were mostly fine for all tests with max at 71/72C but mostly between 60 and 70 when under load (for 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4). After that BSOD i cant even go for 4.4Ghz with 1.250v or 1.275v. Benchmark passes well but AIDA64 stops saying "Hardware failure detected". It fails after 10 minutes at 1.250 and after 20minutes at 1.275. 4.2Ghz and 4.3Ghz at 1.250v still work well. I just tried 4.5Ghz at 1.325v and i ran Realbench Benchmark and AIDA64. CPUZ showed vcore at 1.328 but AIDA64, AI Suite and HWmonitor show vcore at 1.344 and 1.360. Temperatures got higher with max at 83/84 while mostly being between 65 and 75. I stopped AIDA64 after 33 minutes while it failed at 4.4Ghz 1.275v after 20minutes. It seems stable but temperatures are high and i'd like core voltage to be lower. Whatever ratio and vcore i set in Bios, vcore is shown a bit higher in AIDA64, HWmonitor and CPUZ but never drops when idling. When i revert to stock, set everything on auto and run benchmark and Aida64, vcore is above 1.3 (mostly 1.36 and 1.376) which i'm not happy about especially at 4Ghz. It does drop to 0.7/0.8 when idling. Why is vcore always higher than vcore set in Bios? Why is vcore at stock settings so high? What type of adaptive/offset and LLC settings should i try? Could i set lower vcore for 4.5Ghz and would that lower my temperatures to under 75 or so? Should i do some other tests too? I'm not trying to get to some high OC levels and chip might not be able to go far but i'd like to get 4.5Ghz at good temperatures and reasonable core voltage. Any suggestions highly appreciated. Thanx and sorry for the long post.

Hello Forum users, This weekend I built my new gaming system and started doing all driver installations. After everything was installed i also installed HWINFO64 to check is all my speeds and temperaures were ok. All I did was apply the XMP profile for my RAM and other than that I left the system stock. However now I noticed 3 things that concern me: 1) CPU temps and core voltages seem quite high? Reported voltages and temps are from playing 1 match of Apex Legends (running stock cooler) 2) Memory speed reported is only half of the XMP profile 3) HWINFO reports my CPU as an engineering sample (I bought it new from Amazon.de) PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/N7fymq CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory Storage: Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING OC WHITE Video Card Case: Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit

Hi, I have an issue with my Dell E6540 with a Radeon HD 8790M. Every time i try to overclock it doesnt realy change nothing... My laptop was slow so i went to the google and found that i can boost my laptops performance by simply downloading something and using it. It worked for while, than my CPU started throtteling so i went here to ask for help, guys over here helped my a lot. Everything was okey but than i played something and i got wary low FPS so i tried: Updating the BIOS, Installing AMD Radeon Softwere, Installing more Dell drivers, ReInstalling Windows, Changing Power Plan to High Performance, Unlocking core voltage in MSI Afterburner, Non of tham worked so i am here asking for help... Checking GPU and CPU Temperatures: (GPU=50°-73°), (CPU=60°=76°), Please help me cose i realy dont know what to do at this point.

Hi, I own an asus gtx 660 directcu ii and want to overclock it a little bit more than the ''official'' amount ;so i want to add more voltage to the core (im currently at a very low and locked 1.1620 V), i tried changing the bios with nvflash and kgb but it didn't work, and i unlocked the msi afterburner core voltage tweaker but it doesn't count ,no matter how much i add im always at 1.1620 V. What can i do to unlock the core voltage anymore ?

After having to get a new motherboard and AIO I decided I would try my hand at over clocking again. Running a 6700K on an MSI Z270 M7 board with a H100i v2. Its a long story why I am running a 6700K on a Z270 board. Here is my Issue Cpu - Z is not showing the core voltage that I set in the UEFI BIOS. its show almost too low to be stable. Highest stable I have gotten XMP on 3200mhz Corsair 16 X 2 kit Multiplier = 46 Bclk = 102 Core Voltage 1.4 (I Know this is high) Power management feature is off <- don't remember the exact name This all adds out to be 4693 MHZ almost 4.7ghz OC @ ~80c running real bench stress test for 15mins. The Odd thing is CPUZ is showing 1.168V that is a big difference from 1.4v. I know the voltage is going up when i increase it in the Bios. As I can see temps go up and more stability.

I'm currently trying to overclock a Ryzen 3 1300x on an MSI b350 tomahawk plus, and I'm going to overvolt the CPU but I don't know which voltage to adjust: the core voltage or the soc voltage I've attached a pic of my bios

Hello guys, I couldn't find concrete info on this so im starting a new topic, if I have overlooked an already existing thread on this, please send me a link. Anyway, I was overclocking my 6800k to get a final highscore in cinebench r15 before i diled in a more conservative oc for the first time and noticed that the vcore I entered in the bios (1.365v for 4.445 ghz, 1426 score) actually read 1.43 v on the motherboard! (asus strix x99 gaming) I know that Broadwell-e has an integrate voltage regulator and the imput voltage was fixed to 1.9v and the cache voltage at 1.28 so what voltage did i actually read? Asus tends to overshoot the voltage a bit and my llc was pretty conservative aswell..... Now i changed vcore to 1.2v and it still reads 1.38v on the mobo but all software ( from hardware info 64 to cpuz reads 1.2v) btw, i messured directly on the back of the socket because i dont know any other checkpoint.... Thank you in advance for the answers^^ i really dont want to break anything when i try to place nr1 on firestrike for the 6800k 980ti combo (currently nr3)

I decided to check my CPU'S voltage using different programs and with the voltage set to auto in bios and no overclock, still all stock speeds it is setting to 1.4V. Is this normal for a Ryzen 5 1600?? When I did research I found people saying that it should set to around 1.25V - 1.35V. Also is anyone else having this problem?? (edit) I forgot to mention this is at idle and load, it scales from around 1.375 but is most commonly at 1.4 or slightly above.

So my current GPU (GTX 760) runs the games I play on a daily basis fine. But it can't handle newer games. I'm trying to play the Battlefield 1 open beta but my gpu struggles to get to 30 fps on low settings. I plan on doing an overclock. I used to use the MSI gaming app and use "OC mode" as that would work fine but I'm finding that even that causes the display driver to crash after some time. This means I need to increase Core Voltage (I think?). My first question is, should I only be worried about the GPU temps when increasing voltage and clock speed, or is there more to be worried about with GPUs. My current gpu temps don't go much above 70c right now on full load (It's finally nice outside so I have the windows open in my room to keep it cool, it used to be 79F in my room). As long as I try to keep the GPU temps below ~85c, is it safe to increase the voltage? Current GPU voltage on load is 1.2V and TDP doesn't go above 70%. I'm using FurMark to stress the GPU. A more concerning question. I can't get the user define fan speed on afterburner to work. I have a profile setup and it is enabled but the fans won't spin at the speed I have set according to the temperature. It's going the regular speed set by the card (or bios). At 70c it should be spinning at 85% but instead it spins at 42%. You can see in the picture that it spikes occasionally but other than that it won't work. I've tried restarting the computer and I installed the latest graphics drivers. This is the latest version of afterburner too.

I've been running into issues with my i5/1070 rig concerning that games are crashing after 30 min of run time regardless of what graphics settings are set, so someone here recommended that I increase my Core Voltage in Msi Afterburner, only problem is that the program won't let me adjust the slider even after going into the settings to enable it and restarting both the app and my computer, tried it out with EVGA Precision and same results there, neither of which will let me adjust the Core Voltage regardless of what I do. I read up on it and apparently Nvidia locked the Core Voltage for some reason and this is really disappointing as I can't enjoy any game for no more than 30 min until it crashes, pretty much making gaming for me just not worth it anymore unless I can somehow fix this problem. So my question is, is it possible to adjust the Core Voltage on my 1070 FE, and if it's locked is there a way to unlock it?

Hi, As the title suggest, I have been attempting an overclock on my i7 6700k. The issues I have run into are my voltages exceeding 1.45v and sometimes as far as 1.52v when on adaptive voltage (using HW Monitor and Ai Suite 3). I had a stable overclock of 4.6GHz with 1.325v using manual and decided (after watching Linus' video) to use adaptive. Can anyone help me out and give me advice on what I'm doing wrong and how I can learn from it. Thanks, Martyn

Hi All, I think my MSI Founders edition 1070 on water over clocks on par with most other 1070 (Founders or aftermarket). +175 on the core and +600 to the vram. Boost is consistently over 2050 with these settings. At +180 it crashes. Turning the vram back to stock (or even negative) and turning up the core voltage doesn't seem to matter with stability. It seems like I have reached a hard cap for my GPU. My question is: Have core voltage increases helped anyone achieve a higher overclock on their pascal GPUs? It seems like all the reviewers didn't touch core voltage either. http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9347291

How can i be able to move the slider bar for the core voltage? It is frozen and has no numbers. i have a hd 7700/r7 770

So, I'm trying some GPU OC for the first time, using MSI Afterburner on a GTX 670. I've got it stable at +155 core clock without raising the voltage or power limit at all. However I'm a bit confused as to how to proceed. I'm not experienced at this, so call it out if my rationale is wrong: Firstly, I don't want my card to be too loud, so I figured out what my preferred max fan speed would be. 70% Secondly, I don't want it running much hotter than 75 C, so i set up a fan curve that ramps up from 10% under 50 C, to 70% after 70 C and 100% after 75 C. While tuning the card I set it to a constant 70%, aiming to not get it over 75 C at that speed. I proceeded to step up the Core Clock until i found the point of instability, somewhere between +160 and +170. I then went on to try to step up the power limit, as I've heard that is preferable to stepping up the core voltage. That didn't do much, so I went on with the core voltage slider. However, at this point things start to smell a bit fishy, as I'm maxing out the core voltage slider and my temps still won't go over 59 C. Checking the voltage to the core I see that it's still at 1.175 V, which I believe is the stock setting. So my questions is as follows: What am I doing wrong? If I get it to actually raise the voltage, how high is it safe to go? Do i just keep cranking it up until i get my desired max temp, or should I stop at a certain setting? What is the actual difference between Core Voltage and Power Limit, and how do they work? I was told to just keep raising core clock and voltage until I hit my max, and then proceed to memory after. Is that the best way? I'm using Heaven at extreme preset to push the GPU. It hits 100% load, but never goes above 59 C.

Hey guys, I've increased my core voltage of my 970 by +80 after watching a video by Jayztwocents. He said there isn't much to worry about doing so when overclocking. That said, Jay does liquid cool and I do not. Anyway, I seem to be at a stable overclock. I was wondering if anyone has had any bad experiences with a 900 series GTX card with their voltage turned up that high. My temps seem to be around the mid 70's max. Again, my card is a Gigabyte GTX 970 Windforce (non G1) What are your thoughts? Hope I'm not breaking any rules here as this was my first post. Thanks.

Hello everyone, i have been trying to overclock my graphics card but can only get a tiny over clock because my voltage slider is locked. Ive edited the .cfg file in MSI afterburner-didnt work. I tried using trixx-didnt work. I switched bios-didnt work. I dont know what flashing a bios would do but if it unlocks the core voltage just tell me how to do it or send me a link on how to . PC Specs- GPU- Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual OC Edition CPU- Intel I5 4590 Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 PSU- FSP Aurom S 600w- 80+Gold certified ETC...If you need to know anything else just let me know

Hello! So I did OC my I5 4670k to 3.9ghz (yes it is mild) with 1.085v core voltage, then swapped over to adaptive mode and when I run Intel extreme tuning utility it shows that my voltage is up there at 1.16v whilst not even running the stress test, is this normal or should I be worried about it? Also. I run mild OC because I plan on keeping the chip for years to come, running at about 47 degrees under full 100% load with H100I. I tried going 4.4ghz, but realized it is probably a safer bet to run a mild OC as I do not really need that much higher OC for anything and also 4.4ghz did seem to be about the max with 1.25v whist keeping about 70 degree Celsius temperatures according to IETU Anyway, so mostly worried about the voltage. Why does it go higher than it should, is there anything I can do to make it stay at that 1.085 volts that I set it to? Using Asus Z87-pro board by the way.

So today I set off to overclock my gpu after having some great results overclocking my CPU yesterday. But it seems like my gpu has locked volts? So i can't change it using MSI afterburner. And i have of course ticked it off in the settings. But to me it seems illogical to have the core voltage locked on such a high end card. The cards i'm using are two identical Zotac gtx 770 amp edition which is a factory-overclocked card. So my real question is if there is a way to check if it's locked? and if there is a way to unlock it. I don't really care about warranty and all that shit, as long as it doesn't fuck up my card by just unlocking it. And i can change the clock speeds, but i guess that's working fine on a locked card? Note: i built my pc myself, so no other companies have touched my cards. GPU clocks (factory clocked) Core Clock: 1150 Boost Clock: 1202 Specs: Zotac gtx 770 amp 2-way SLI Asus rampage VI extreme i7-4770k @4.9ghz Kingston HyperX beast 8gb 2400mhz XFX proseries 1250w PSU Win7 Ultimate