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Tolerance of motherboard voltage regulators that control CPU Vcore?
For example, on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3, what is the actual voltage
range (tolerance, plus or minus) if one sets "CPU Vcore" to the maximum operating voltage 1.3625 for an Intel Q9550? Thanks. |
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Tolerance of motherboard voltage regulators that control CPUVcore?
John Doe wrote:
For example, on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3, what is the actual voltage range (tolerance, plus or minus) if one sets "CPU Vcore" to the maximum operating voltage 1.3625 for an Intel Q9550? Thanks. Because the processor has a "load line", the voltage values you see will be all over the place. For example, at idle, you might see a measured voltage 0.060V above where it should be (this is actually at odds with what the Intel datasheet says). And when the CPU runs flat out at 100% load, the voltage can drop 0.150V (ballpark figure) below the nominally programmed value. That behavior is the "load line", and is different than the basic "tolerance" of the regulator chip itself. (Unfortunately, they don't go into details in the Intel CPU datasheet, as to what their objectives are with regard to this subject. The objective doesn't appear to be, that the voltage value remain the same under all conditions.) (Pg. 24 here, for your processor, shows the load line. For whatever reason, the voltage isn't allowed to be a flat horizontal line with respect to load current.) http://download.intel.com/design/pro...hts/318726.pdf This is the regulator on my Asrock LGA775 motherboard, and while this doc doesn't answer every question you might have, it'll give you a better idea how complicated the answer to this question can be. This regulator has a "tolerance" of 0.5%, which is damned good, but that tolerance is just for the DAC and reference inside the regulator - it isn't a spec for the whole motherboard or anything. The load line kinda makes a joke out of that 0.5% figure. http://www.st.com/stonline/products/...e/ds/12187.pdf Paul |
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