[Speculation] overclocking and vcore

[Arne_Saknussemm]

less resistance for same voltage = higher current

Maybe team yellow are using lower resistivity material...

Same resistivity shorter fatter traces?

Maybe sample size of "the community" is statistically insignificant? 😮

[Raja]

The boards will still clock the cores to the same freq, so it doesnt really matter. Not going to say anything more about it, as it isnt important.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Where are those voltage measurements taken Doug...just out of interest...is that the voltage after the VRM that's going to the CPU?...and I guess I'd have to ask is the read point in a physically similar position in the circuit on both boards?

If temps are exactly the same...assuming that can be taken to mean that for same load and same power consumption...yellow is using less volts because it is sending more current.

Volts/current/resistance so yellow may have less resistance between VRM and CPU if that is the read point...

I think....:confused:....

I feel like I'm in my fifth form physics exam LOL

EDIT: The main point is that right....anyone saying yellow is clocking same chip higher?

[Doug2507]

Like for like vcore yes there's 100mhz difference which for ambient oc it makes a difference.

Yes, after vrm. Could mesure from pin but woupd need to ready whitepaper to check which one.

Haha, ok raja. So basically no comment. Np.

[Raja]

There are loads of VCC pins. No need to check the land diagram as you wouldn't actually measure this from a "pin" anyway.

In any case, as I said above, the final OC will be the same if the right person is performing the testing. 😉

[Telstar]

A friend of mine just got the Apex and the cpu he is testing needs the same vcore than the yellow z170 we all know about.