Mgutierrez33
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So I have this strange issue with my motherboard, and I'm not sure if anyone else has had this issue before, but here goes: when I go into the BIOS (Advanced Mode) to set my overclock (manually, newest BIOS revision) voltages, it won't actually change them. Sure the entry in the BIOS SAYS 1.37V, but when i go into the desktop to run Prime95 to see what exactly is going on, all of my validation software says it's still using anywhere from 1.8 to 1.4V. Even manually setting even lower than that it refuses to drop voltages any lower than 1.38V. Is there some sort of setting I may have missed? I have torn through all of the BIOS options and nothing seems to make a difference one way or another, and I would really like to see if dropping the voltages some will still keep things stable because my temps aren't quite where I would like them to be (pay no attention to the Antech cpu cooler... it is a point of shame for my rig and will be getting ditched in favor of an H100i as soon as I can grab one). Also my clock speeds have gone up to 4.6 Ghz again: originally I just had the motherboard set it and forget it, but when i moved everything over to my Graphite 600T I guess something shifted around in the cpu cooler and damaged the pump fins a bit because my temps suddenly skyrocketed and I was no longer able to keep a stable 4.6 ghz overclock (seems my processor doesn't like having more than one core climb over 75 C without derping on me). Which brings me to another strange thing: I WAS able to INCREASE my voltages to 1.38 manually from the stock 1.3, but I can't decrease them... ARGH!
