Weird Voltage Numbers

[Debeant]

First off, components: 1600X, Asus ROG B350-F Gaming Motherboard, 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaw RAM 2400 mhz, eVGA RTX 2070.

 

Now that that's out of the way, I'm trying to figure out why my motherboard is pushing so much voltage to my CPU. It's almost fried my 1600X--I'm going to have to replace it. I started having stabilty issues recently, and pulled up HWMonitor and CPU VCore regularly was sitting at 1.49v with occasional peaks to 1.55v. Motherboard was set at auto voltage with no overclock. Okay, so... whatever. I tried to turn the voltage down to 1.375 in the BIOS, but that isn't an option because the option is auto or offset. No straight manual setting. Okay, so I go for a +0.0625 offset, to keep the stability. It's unstable at stock clocks. The only way to keep the voltages under the 1.5 is to manually lock the multiplier, however, even at +0.125 (1.4v) the chip is unstable at stock speeds (3.6 ghz). If I set the multiplier to auto, I keep getting these crazy voltage numbers regardless of what I set the voltage to, but the machine is more stable.

 

What I want to know is if I'm doing something wrong. I'm going to have to replace the CPU. This one is fried if stock clocks require over 1.45 at a minimum for just stability at almost idle (2-3% usage). I'm planning on going to a 3600, but the casual overvolting of the CPUs by the mainboard has me deeply concerned.

[Jurrunio]

1. Positive or negative offset is that?

 

2. I think for Ryzen you need to read SV12 instead

 

3. Update the bios for potentially better voltage reporting

[Debeant]

4 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

1. Positive or negative offset is that?

 

2. I think for Ryzen you need to read SV12 instead

 

3. Update the bios for potentially better voltage reporting

All the offsets are positive. I do not have an SVI2 reporting in any monitoring software, however, the motherboard sends that specific sensor data to vcore according to my research. The BIOS is up to date as of last week.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Debeant said:

All the offsets are positive. I do not have an SVI2 reporting in any monitoring software, however, the motherboard sends that specific sensor data to vcore according to my research. The BIOS is up to date as of last week.

Not even HWinfo64?

[Debeant]

14 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Not even HWinfo64?

downloaded and opened HWinfo64. CPU Core Voltage (SVI2 TFN) reads as staying above 1.45 on a very regular basis and has a max in the 2 and a half minutes of monitoring of 1.506 v.

[Jurrunio]

4 minutes ago, Debeant said:

downloaded and opened HWinfo64. CPU Core Voltage (SVI2 TFN) reads as staying above 1.45 on a very regular basis and has a max in the 2 and a half minutes of monitoring of 1.506 v.

Maybe RMA the board? That voltage behaviour is outrageous, I dont think 1600X default runs with more than 1.3V on any other board.

[Debeant]

31 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Maybe RMA the board? That voltage behaviour is outrageous, I dont think 1600X default runs with more than 1.3V on any other board.

Second board and second chip. Both are out of warranty anyway. Other board chip combo acted the same way. It's fine once I set the voltages and clock speed manually, but if anything's on auto the voltages are through the roof.