questions about BIOS voltage options (G41M-ES2L but probably general to all)

[graysky]

Guess I'm used to DFI naming for various voltage settings because I have a GA-G41M-ES2L and have no idea what "CPU Reference Voltage" is... what is this?

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CPU Vcore
CPU Termination
CPU Reference
CPU Vcore is obviously the core voltage for the processor.
CPU Termination I am assuming is the VTT.
CPU Reference = ?

It has the following settings:

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Auto
Normal
0.738V
0.756V
0.780V
0.805V

[oggmonster]

Reference on Gigabyte boards is a voltage, on other boards its a %. By default my E8600 VTT = 1.2 and my ref is 0.76 giving a % of 63.33% (0.76/1.2 *100)

[graysky]

Cool, thanks for the info.  The list seems to adjust automatically for the VTT you select giving you four options over the range of VTTs you chose: 0.62x, 0.63x, 0.65x, and 0.67x.

[oggmonster]

Pretty sure that generally the duals like 63%, but sometimes (depending on overclock) may need more

[graysky]

Pretty sure that generally the duals like 63%, but sometimes (depending on overclock) may need more

Interesting, can you point me to a reference to that 63 % for duals?  I'm not overclocking it actually since the main goal is running cool.

[oggmonster]

Can't find that info to hand, if you're not overclocking you can leave it on default. But 63% is the standard for duals as thats ive not touched those settings and thats what it works out on my motherboard. It will be on a spec sheet somewhere from intel lol!