Athlon X2 4200 voltages

[stevorob]

Ok, so I tried to find some articles on safe voltages for my processor, found some people say between 1.30 and 1.35.

So, to clear up anything, I raised the CPU voltage through my BIOS to 1.400 (Asus m2n-sli deluxe) and rebooted.

Now, in Windows, I opened up the asus booster tool that came on the mobo cd, and then I opened up CPU-Z, and neither of them are reading the voltage that I set in the BIOS.

Whats going on? I have a screenshot here if someone can explain this to me. It's all sorta new to me, and I'm trying to figure it all out. Thanks guys.

 

[W2hCYK]

with my E6600, AIBooster doesnt read volts or temps properly, and cpuz doesnt read volts right either.. I find that coretemp works, but it doesnt work for amd's. I'd get some other type of 3rd party stuff to measure volts and temp.. the temp may be right, i heard just the core2's have the temp problem. The volts, most likely incorrect.

I think its called CrystalCPU, idk, but it has accurate voltage readings iirc.. check that out..

 

[stevorob]

with my E6600, AIBooster doesnt read volts or temps properly, and cpuz doesnt read volts right either.. I find that coretemp works, but it doesnt work for amd's. I'd get some other type of 3rd party stuff to measure volts and temp.. the temp may be right, i heard just the core2's have the temp problem. The volts, most likely incorrect.

I think its called CrystalCPU, idk, but it has accurate voltage readings iirc.. check that out..

Ok thanks, I'll do that.

It does seem as though the temp readings are right... I just think that the voltages are off. Thanks for letting me know that CPUz has a problem with voltages too...

 

[vortexkrow]

Hey, ive just got a new amd +4200 x2, whats your steppings on your cpu and what week is it?

 

[stevorob]

Hey, ive just got a new amd +4200 x2, whats your steppings on your cpu and what week is it?

Steppings are 2. Week? Not understanding what your asking?

 

[Ketxxx]

AI booster works fine, however its a bit buggy and seems to interfere sometimes with bios settings. click the little monkey wrench icon in ai booster and set 1.4v.