Is voltage a sign that the CPU is throttling after overclocking?

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10-06-2016, 01:05 PM

I own a lowend ASUS board, the m5a 78l-m. It's a 4 phase board without VRM cooling. My fx-6300 runs at 3.5GHz stock, but I overclocked it to 3.9GHz at STOCK VOLTAGES. I'm unsure what the actual voltage is and don't know how much to increase it. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. But anyway, I checked the voltage using CPUz and AIDA 64's stress test. At idle it's 1.200 volts, but under stress it drops to 1.188 volts. Does this indicate the VRMs are being throttled due to my minor overclock?

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10-06-2016, 01:05 PM #1

TorJules
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10-06-2016, 04:44 PM

I'm not sure if the motherboard includes a temperature sensor for VRM's, but I suggest checking HWmonitor to see if it's heating up.

TorJules

10-06-2016, 04:44 PM #2

I'm not sure if the motherboard includes a temperature sensor for VRM's, but I suggest checking HWmonitor to see if it's heating up.

shizzle54
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10-07-2016, 03:48 AM

I'm not sure if the motherboard includes a temperature sensor for VRM's, but I suggest checking HWmonitor to see if it's heating up.

shizzle54

10-07-2016, 03:48 AM #3

I'm not sure if the motherboard includes a temperature sensor for VRM's, but I suggest checking HWmonitor to see if it's heating up.