i5 3570K high vcore at stock?

[evilelite2000]

Hey guys.

I'm very much new when it comes to pc building and overclocking and very recently I purchased and built my own pc. Very recently, however, I had a look through my asus monitoring software and found that my cpu was using a 1.3 v core and is permanently turbo'd to 3.8ghz. I downloaded and installed cpu-z to see if it displayed the same results and it did.

I suppose what i'm asking is, is this normal? I haven't tinkered with any of the settings in the bios yet and 1.3 v core seems absurdly high for a stock settings. I've heard from numerous places that this is the cut off point for voltage that you should use for ivy bridge.

In case anyone is wondering, i'm using the asus p8z77-v pro motherboard.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Cru]

1.3v on stock is not normal as far as i know
you might want to watch ttl's overclocking guide and fix it

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yep just watch the guide, all you need is in there

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/gigabyte_z77_overclocking_guide/1

 

[Genesius]

no, 1.3 isnt normal, however i have seen high stock clocks on other boards. even if you dont intend on overclocking you should still go into the bios, set you vdroop offset higher (to high or extreme) and find out how low you can get the voltage at the stock clocks, this will cut down on heat massively.

Your issue with 'turbo' constantly being on,is one of 2 things.
1, the power saving options in the bios are switched off.
2, you have windows set to high performance mode under your power settings. in high performance windows will not use the energy saving features, switch to balanced and customise it to how you like it to use the downclock funtionality.

 

[airdeano]

like Tom's aluding to, the guide starts you off on a clean slate.
get to the BIOS and start with optimized defaults... and then the process starts..

we just had a member having PCIe lane troubles, reset, clear CMOS, did what he
could, even returned the motherboard on the assumption is was illed. got a new
board and same issues.. started the overclock guide and poof.. issues cleared
right up.

delete key into BIOS on bootup (POST), F5 - Optimized Defaults, F10 Save and reboot.
retest.

 

[evilelite2000]

Hey guys, thanks for the help!

Using tom's guide and others which I had found all over the place on the internet, I did my overclock and i'm now running 4.2ghz at 1.220v. I could go further as the max temp i got was 70 but i'm going to leave it as it is for the meantime.

Also, big thank you to geniuses for that bit about windows power management. Didn't think that had anything to do with the processor clock speed.

Cheers.