[PC] Low voltages in newish computer

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I'm not an overclocker - I only want the computer to work when I need it to.

I was looking at things in the Asus software and I opened up the voltage meter thing. It says that they're all low (except for the 12V). The CPU voltage was going between 1.15 and 1.30 - but was at 1.15 most of the time.

The PSU is an Antec 500W Earthwatts (80+ efficiency lol hyperventilate).

Everything in the computer was new as of december when I put it all together (lol there's my problem rite?) and it works perfectly.



Cliffs:
Should I be worried about the low voltages?
Computer runs fine.
Sandpaper?

thats just c1e/speedstep whatever. don't worry about it.

also, unrelated, but even when at load you're going to show a bit lower vcore than what you got in the bios anyways.

if your voltages were really too low you'd be crashing every other second, couldn't boot into windows, that sort of thing.

Yeah that's what I assumed.

If it was too high - i'd be worried about things getting fried.

The fact that it's low and stable doesn't really worry me... I just wanted to make sure :sunny:

Most components (even the processor) have a tolerance for a good 10-15% variation in voltages. It's nothing to worry about.

I'm not familiar with some of the newer boards, but are you unable to increase the voltage from the BIOS, or does it self regular itself?

Hash;12952798']I'm not familiar with some of the newer boards, but are you unable to increase the voltage from the BIOS, or does it self regular itself?Yes he can increase the voltage from the BIOS ~~~~> he basically has the same readings I have but I run Q6600/4GBs Memory/similar mobo; me personally, I changed the thresholds to 5% Asus Probe and but that was because I wanted to know of any excess load on a rail during use, but as I know, 10% is default.. I use 1.25(from BIOS) as my CPU voltage; that's 2 bumps up from default; a very conservative OC and safe...

Hash;12952798']I'm not familiar with some of the newer boards, but are you unable to increase the voltage from the BIOS, or does it self regular itself?

Yeah I can increase it in the bios. Asus also has a fun program called "AI Suite" which has all your overclocking needs catered for (ram + PSU voltages and timings and fan controls) - so I could increase the voltage to 1.30 in that... but yeah I think its self regulating. I haven't really ever tested this computer under load though. There's no games on it - and the newest thing I have is NWN2 (came with the graphics card, and I'm not sure whether that will stress it anyway?)

I can run lots of things at once though. iTunes + Photoshop + Stupid MS Chess game + firefox + MSWord2007 + mIRC (lol)...

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Yeah I can increase it in the bios. Asus also has a fun program called "AI Suite" which has all your overclocking needs catered for (ram + PSU voltages and timings and fan controls) - so I could increase the voltage to 1.30 in that... but yeah I think its self regulating. I haven't really ever tested this computer under load though. There's no games on it - and the newest thing I have is NWN2 (came with the graphics card, and I'm not sure whether that will stress it anyway?)

I can run lots of things at once though. iTunes + Photoshop + Stupid MS Chess game + firefox + MSWord2007 + mIRC (lol)...

???

I'd figure it'd regulate itself, if that's the case it probably reduces power consumption under a lighter load, this isn't unusual at all, Laptops have been doing it for years, they'll skim 200-400Mhz off the processor's clock speed to help conserve battery life, I imagine it's something similar here.

The program for system stress testing I always use is Prime95 (http://www.playtool.com/pages/prime95/prime95.html), this link basically talks about using it and what it does exactly (If you care, heh). I'd stress the system then see if those voltages don't increase to compensate.