Vcore on 6700k Questions

[QuiteSufficient]

I purchased a 6700k and ASUS Z170-AR from Fry's yesterday.

I've gone through the BIOS, HWMonitor, and HWINFO64. All of them are reporting 1.34-1.36 vcore under load, with HWINFO64 sometimes showing as high as 1.4v.

I have every cpu-related BIOS setting at stock.

Is this normal? I read in [H]'s review this is the range of voltage Kyle used to achieve 4.6ghz (iirc). Is the board overvolting? Crappy chip?

I can report that since the initial review here and on other sites that I am running the newest BIOS for this board and the Patriot 3000mhz DDR4 I purchased does not have any trouble at these speeds (using 3000 setting in BIOS). I've tried several big video renders and some stress testing.

 

[Araxie]

actually according kyle's findings, no software actually can read correctly Skylake voltages. IIRC in the review CPU-Z was reporting something like 1.6V-1.7V and they were applying about ~1.3V so yes probably a bug, specially with those old software. Talking about that I prefer to use Open hardware monitor or Aida64 because HWmonitor or HWinfo always have somekind of issues or bugs.

 

[QuiteSufficient]

Tried hard setting bios vcore to 1.2v, and that is now reflected in hwmonitor (whether accurate or not). Anandtech said their MSI Gaming 7 board also ran high vcore (or at least reported). They were able to slightly overclock to 4.3 and lower vcore, which is what I'm trying now - seems like a good mix. For me, open hardware monitor does not have much info (lists ram as generic, missing sensors).

Temperatures are much lower at this vcore...60C versus high 70s under load.