What is V core in the bios settings?

[bgc341]

Can someone please explain to me what is v core is, i heard jayztwocents briefly talk about it when he was doing overclocking in a video?

[JPStone]

That would be the amount of voltage going to your CPU core

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_core_voltage

[bgc341]

1 minute ago, JPStone said:

That would be the amount of voltage going to your CPU core

Thanks

[JPStone]

1 minute ago, bgc341 said:

Thanks

No worries. Yea be careful if your gonna adjust that because there is less than half a volt in some instances between running smooth and blowing up your CPU.

[bgc341]

9 minutes ago, JPStone said:

No worries. Yea be careful if your gonna adjust that because there is less than half a volt in some instances between running smooth and blowing up your CPU.

Thanks For the Advice im Not Ready to overclock Yet but i'm Too curious for my own good when it comes to snooping around electronics lol.

[JPStone]

 

6 minutes ago, bgc341 said:

Thanks For the Advice im Not Ready to overclock Yet but i'm Too curious for my own good when it comes to snooping around electronics lol.

Just get good advice from trusted sources. I almost blew up my CPU taking bad advice on setting voltages in BIOS when I started overclocking. It is fun to get into overclocking if you have patients. It's not always as easy as setting a few numbers up in BIOS and firing up your system. It's a lot of trial and error and failing and starting all over until you finally get it to work. Then when you get it to work you gotta keep tweaking to get it dialed in to where you are getting the max performance using the least amount of power necessary to keep it stable. Don't listen to anyone who tells you to just max out the voltages and leave it like that. That is the mistake I made and I got lucky it did not brick a brand new CPU that cost me a weeks pay.

[DimasRMDO]

Just to add, if you mess around with the VCore settings (by setting it to override or manual), it makes it fixed. So at a given load the VCore remains the same, though you can enable other settings like C-State and EIST so it doesn't consume much power during idle (this can mess your overclock and may cause a crash if you're aiming to really push the CPU though).