Thank you for the quick reply.
As you will appreciate I am not an electronics expert but I am trying to understand what is happening before I complete installation of my new Epox system this evening - the hold up was not enough spacers for the motherboard would you believe.
Can you please clarify a couple of points.
Is Aedan correct in stating that the lowest Vcore should be 1.45 volts. If so what could be the cause of the reported 1.35 - 1.4 Vcore other than the response of the motherboard to the processor voltage request.
You refer in your reply to the the 5VSB which I don't understand as I thought that this only provided enough power to kick off the boot sequence and initiate the other rails. Even my Tagan 480 watt
PSU only gives 2.5 amps on that line and that is one of the highest values I have seen.
Have done a bit more digging and found this
At min. P-state, a CG-rev part is clocked at 1000MHz with a 22W max. power-consumption at 1.10V Vcore(CPU-voltage) whereas the older C0-rev parts are clocked at 800MHz with a 35W max. power-consumption at 1.30V Vcore
However this appears to be related to Cool'n'quiet. If this is disabled why would the Vcore vary.