CPU Voltage

[ComeT]

Hello!

Just installed Cam for my 2 year old prebuilt computer from HP and I'm just wondering if the CPU Voltage, see the attached file, isn't a little bit high? The processor is a Intel Core i5 4440...

EDIT: Just for info, it isn't overclocked

[GalacticRuler]

Prebuilt voltages tend to be high; My CPU has a voltage of 1.648, near your area.

[ComeT]

Prebuilt voltages tend to be high; My CPU has a voltage of 1.648, near your area.

Okey. Cuz I've seen persons with a CPU at 1,4/1,5V and overclocked... Will this high voltage damage my CPU?

[TheMcSame]

It's just a false reading, check it with CPUZ, you should get a proper reading from that. If it really was running 1.7V then you'd know about it.

[GalacticRuler]

Okey. Cuz I've seen persons with a CPU at 1,4/1,5V and overclocked... Will this high voltage damage my CPU?

Could it? Possibly. Should you do anything about it? No. The people who make these prebuilts know what they are doing, so it's best you don't touch it.

[GalacticRuler]

It's just a false reading, check it with CPUZ, you should get a proper reading from that. If it really was running 1.7V then you'd know about it.

It isn't. I've checked in Cam, HWMonitor, and Speccy; They all give readings of 1.648.

[ComeT]

Could it? Possibly. Should you do anything about it? No. The people who make these prebuilts know what they are doing, so it's best you don't touch it.

Oke!

Thanks for the information!

[TheMcSame]

It isn't. I've checked in Cam, HWMonitor, and Speccy; They all give readings of 1.648.

You're running two completely different chips...

 

You: AMD Athlon. AMD's chips generally run on mucher higher voltages than Intel's chips.

OP: Intel i5 4440. Shouldn't really be running at anything over 1.3V, ~1.5V is the max safe voltage for haswell with cooling being a limiting factor well before that. If the OP's CPU was really running at 1.7V then I doubt he'd still have a working CPU unless they put some god like cooler in his system...

[ComeT]

It's just a false reading, check it with CPUZ, you should get a proper reading from that. If it really was running 1.7V then you'd know about it.

I downloaded CPUZ and according to that the CPU voltage is jumping from 0,7 to 0,9... Im confused

[ComeT]

You're running two completely different chips...

 

You: AMD Athlon. AMD's chips generally run on mucher higher voltages than Intel's chips.

OP: Intel i5 4440. Shouldn't really be running at anything over 1.3V, ~1.5V is the max safe voltage for haswell with cooling being a limiting factor well before that. If the OP's CPU was really running at 1.7V then I doubt he'd still have a working CPU unless they put some god like cooler in his system...

My system came with, and uses, a Cooler Master XDream 4 :3

Yeah, I know it sucks...

[TheMcSame]

I downloaded CPUZ and according to that the CPU voltage is jumping from 0,7 to 0,9... Im confused

C states. Basically, it drops the voltage (and does other things as well) when it doesn't need the power. You just need to get the CPU to do a bit of work to see what voltage it's set to. Intel XTU might tell you (not sure if it does for locked CPUs), failing that, run the stress test or just open a bunch of videos and look at the CPU voltage in CPU-Z.

[incarnate]

I downloaded CPUZ and according to that the CPU voltage is jumping from 0,7 to 0,9... Im confused

Cam was likely reading the vcin voltage or was just plain guessing. Cpuz is reliable. That's the voltage you're running at. Don't worry about it. And don't worry about the voltage on a locked chip, it's not going to mess up

[ComeT]

Cam was likely reading the vcin voltage or was just plain guessing. Cpuz is reliable. That's the voltage you're running at. Don't worry about it. And don't worry about the voltage on a locked chip, it's not going to mess up

Oke!

Thank you!

[incarnate]

Oke!

Thank you!

No problem