Updated - Dr. Ian Cutress weighs in - HWInfo's Power Reporting Deviation Sensor Reveals CPU Lifespan-Reducing AMD Motherboard Enhancements

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4 minutes ago, leadeater said:

But you can configure these voltages, when it comes to voltage it's like a two way agreement but the motherboard does have the overriding power in regards to voltage scale since you can manually configure a voltage that is too high and kill the CPU and it won't prevent that. CPU will request a voltage within the configured and agreed values as it needs during operation but this is basically scaled to the agreed range or rather the vcore you set which is the maximum and everything is scaled off that.

I'm assuming stock operation for now. If you override settings, anything goes. Otherwise I think we're in agreement.

[GoodBytes]

GamerNexus has released an excellent video on the topic: